Agile Communities

How Governments Achieve Breakthrough Success by Design

Policy stalemates. Troubling economic and social challenges. Weakening business infrastructure. These are among the top issues that governments at all political levels around the world face. Shared problems, however, also mean shared solutions. While each situation is different, A.T. Kearney's work in both the private and public sectors reveals that successful community transformations share a critical underlying element: the ability to break through constraints that seem insurmountable to deliver positive, meaningful change. Further, the strategies adopted by these agile communities feature six self-reinforcing principles.

This paper is an in-depth discussion of these principles using several real-world case studies.