---
id: "claim-strategic-agility-most-important"
type: "claim"
source_timestamps: ["§ Strategic agility"]
tags: ["survey-data", "strategy"]
related: ["concept-strategic-agility", "framework-shape-index"]
confidence: "high"
testable: true
speakers: ["Rens van den Broek", "Samantha Hellauer", "Dina Wang"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
source_title: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-foci-60-successful-ai-pilots"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
---
# Strategic agility is viewed as the most important SHAPE dimension

## Claim: Strategic agility is viewed as the most important SHAPE dimension

Survey respondents ranked **[[concept-strategic-agility|strategic agility]]** as the most important of the five [[framework-shape-index|SHAPE]] dimensions, with **65% placing it first or second in importance**.

- **Confidence:** high
- **Testable:** yes

### Enrichment
The **65% survey statistic cannot be independently validated** — SHAPE is a proprietary ghSMART/HBR construct. However, the broader importance of strategic agility (long-term planning plus short-term pivot capability, business value over novelty, avoiding sunk-cost pilots) is widely supported across adjacent AI-leadership literature (MIT, Forbes, CloudFactory).