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Business Agility ≠ Just Moving Fast: Ivan Gekht on Resilience by Design

Svetozar Eliseev

24 Sep 2024 — 1 min read

In a recent Dev.to feature on Business Agility in the Modern World, Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht unpacked a crucial distinction: agility isn’t about speed alone—it’s about structural resilience and the ability to re-align fast under pressure.

Ivan points out that agility in high-stakes environments comes from clarity of thought, not ceremony:

“The more uncertainty, the more important it is to move with intent.”

At Gehtsoft, we’ve seen this firsthand—whether we’re engineering a trading superapp under live-market deadlines or helping Fortune 500 clients reboot tech strategies midstream. What matters is not how fast you sprint—it’s whether you’re pointed in the right direction when everything shifts.

Read the full interview here: Business Agility & Its Role in the Modern World (Dev.to )

Or watch it on YouTube: Software Development and Architecture Channel

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