My keynote at APGI 2019 in Pune, Apr 20. In this talk, I have used examples from natural world, specifically the plans to explain and illustrate what agility means in terms of the survival, growth and continuous evolution.

1. Outside-In Agility
Tathagat Varma
Country Manager, NerdWallet

2. My personal views…

3. Humans migrated for
survival!
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

4. Adapted and Evolved…

5. We humans are “agile”!

6. What about plants?

7. No, plants are “sessile”!

8. Phototropism
https://www.thoughtco.com/plant-tropisms-4159843

9. Thigmotropism
https://www.thoughtco.com/plant-tropisms-4159843

10. Gravitropism
https://www.thoughtco.com/plant-tropisms-4159843

11. Hydrotropism
https://www.thoughtco.com/plant-tropisms-4159843

12. Thermotropism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermotropism

13. Traumatropism

14. “Wood Wide Web”
https://albertonrecord.co.za/182186/enviro-monday-trees-talk-via-wood-wide-web/

15. “Crown Shyness”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

16. Faster than the fastest!

17. Resilient and Invasive

18. So, aren’t plants “agile”?

19. #1: Survival drives agility!

20. #2: Agility is contextual!

21. #3: Start where you are!

22. #4: Optimize for survival

23. #5: Players self-organize!

24. #6: Process is emergent!

25. #7: Impediments amplify
agility!

26. #8: Gentle pace, no waste!

27. #9: Results determine
“agility”
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jul/01/global-warming-aggravating-el-nino/

28. #10: There’s no finish line…

29. Recap