Achieving Business Agility: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World
Authors: John Orvos
ISBN-10: 1484238540
ISBN-13: 9781484238547
Edition 版次: 1st ed.
Publication Date 出版日期: 2018-10-11
Print Length 页数: 213 pages
Book Description
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Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear,actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset.
Achieving Business Agility offers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to effectively execute these strategies. Whether you are a delivery executive,a change advocate,a consultant,a business leader,or a newcomer to agile,you will learn clear actions from a practical,business-oriented perspective that is vital to effect change and bring agile into your business.
The book is structured in three sections. The first provides you with a deep understanding of each of four strategies. The second section tells the story of a company that applied these strategies through the eyes of several key players. The last section helps you get started applying what you learned in your own company.
What You’ll Learn
Get the attention of your executives by alerting them to a company problem that can impact them personally and create a sense of urgency to address it
Collaborate with your executives in a way that gets them to open up and to see how their operating model is a contributing cause to the company problem
Demonstrate how your executives can specifically benefit from a new agile business operating model and address the company problem
Create a reinforcement structure on a larger scale to establish agile as the new standard operating model in your organization
Who This Book Is For
Managers,business leaders,and consultants at/for large enterprises or small startups who want their company to better compete in today’s fast-moving markets that present threats and opportunities at every turn. No agile expertise is required.
Part 1. The Mechanics-Understanding Strategies to Achieve Business Agility
1. Sound the Alarm
2. Look in the Mirror
3. Shine the Light
4. Agile Business Realization Part 2. The Story-Strategies in Action
5. The Solar Corona Insurance Company6. Sounding the Alarm at Solar Corona
7. Solar Corona Looks in the Mirror
8. Shining the Light on Solar Corona
9. Agile Business Realization at Solar Corona
10. Learning from Solar Corona Part3. The Takeaway-Defining Your Company’s Journey
11. Importance of Alignment
12. Your Journey Ahead
