VUCA and Its Impact on Business Organizations

The paper describes, first, the massive changes in the environments themselves in which companiesCompanies operate and, second, the ways in which these environments are continuously changing. It also highlights the impact on companiesCompanies and businessBusiness organizations and sets out requirements for organizations to survive successfully in the rapidly changing environment. After a brief look at the economic impact to illustrate the importance of this topic, ideas for creating a high-performing organization are developed. To this end, ideas from (agile) organizational development, organizational learning, and network organization are used to look at the internal organization and take the cross-border perspective to identify key capabilities. These concepts are compared and complemented with certain ideas from cybernetics and computer science.