Book description
Your strategic initiatives are constantly under fire due to the evolving nature of markets, technology, laws, and government. To ensure your strategy succeeds, it must remain flexible while confronting these shifting challenges. Agile Strategy Management: Techniques for Continuous Alignment and Improvement explains how to achieve this flexibility by building agility into the initiation, development, implementation, and governance of your strategic initiatives.
The book details what it takes to initiate, develop, implement, and govern a healthy strategy that delivers the benefits expected by all stakeholders. It presents insights gained by the author’s organization over the last 25 years helping their clients achieve success with their strategic initiatives. Filled with real-world examples and case studies, it illustrates wide-ranging situations where the author’s company helped clients reach important business objectives.
Readers can use the book to look up examples that describe the various ways to use agile methods and techniques for critical business functions, including:
- Scope definition of strategic initiatives
- Stakeholder identification
- Team building
- Project and program quality management
- Change management
- Procurement of resources
- Solution development, implementation, and quality management
- Strategy governance
In this book, you will find guidelines that explain how to establish internal organizations for change and how to ensure these intermediate organizations stay motivated until final solution delivery. Presenting success stories as well as major blunders, the book can help you avoid many of the pitfalls that other organizations have experienced while governing their strategic initiatives.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- About the Author
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Chapter 1 Strategy Quality and Strategy Success
- 1.1 Knowledge Sharing
- 1.2 Synchronization
- 1.3 Why Our Methods
- 1.4 Strategy and Strategic Initiatives
- 1.5 Agile Principles
- 1.6 Scope Establishment
- 1.7 Stakeholder Identification
- 1.8 Agile Team Building
- 1.9 Assessment and Recovery of Projects in Trouble
- 1.10 Strategy Quality and Successful Strategy
- 1.11 Lessons Learned
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Chapter 2 Team Building for a Strategic Initiative
- 2.1 Get a Strategic Initiative Off to a Good Start
- 2.2 Key-Stakeholder Selection Examples
- 2.3 Organizations for Strategic Initiative Support
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2.4 Team Types for Strategic Initiatives
- 2.4.1 The Strategy Governance Team
- 2.4.2 Strategy Governance Team Members
- 2.4.3 The Process Quality Assurance Team
- 2.4.4 PQA Team Members
- 2.4.5 The Process Governance Team
- 2.4.6 The Process Governance Team Members
- 2.4.7 The Workgroup Team
- 2.4.8 Workgroup Team Members
- 2.4.9 Cross Team Membership Value
- 2.5 The No Excuse for Failure Principle
- 2.6 The War Room
- 2.7 Sponsor and Key-Stakeholder Risk
- 2.8 Lessons Learned
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Chapter 3 Strategy Process Quality Management
- 3.1 Strategy Quality Management
- 3.2 Strategy Quality Objects
- 3.3 SQM Facilitation and Initiation
- 3.4 The PQA Method
- 3.5 Prepare the PQA Workshop War Room
- 3.6 Prepare the PQA Team for PQA and PQA Workshop
- 3.7 The PQA Process and Workshop Introduction
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3.8 The PQA Workshop
- 3.8.1 The PowerPoint-Based PQA Team PQA Introduction
- 3.8.2 Question and Answer Session
- 3.8.3 Definition of Personal Visions and Missions
- 3.8.4 Definition of Success Factors with Quality Control
- 3.8.5 Definition of Critical Success Factors
- 3.8.6 The PQA Matrix with Activity Definition
- 3.8.7 PQA Activity Description and Assignment of an Activity Manager
- 3.8.8 PQA Workshop Review Planning in the PQA Workshop
- 3.9 The Activity Description Production
- 3.10 The PQA Reviews
- 3.11 The WCAT Case Study
- 3.12 The Banking Information System Swap Case
- 3.13 The Military Healthcare Information System Case
- 3.14 Lessons Learned
- Chapter 4 Solution Provider Procurement
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Chapter 5 Strategy Implementation
- 5.1 The Coffee Bean Strategy Implementation Methods
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5.2 The Information Requirements Study
- 5.2.1 Workflow-Based or Consolidated Report-Based IRS Documentation
- 5.2.2 The IRS Organization
- 5.2.3 The IRS Process to Produce the IRS Consolidated Report
- 5.2.4 IRS Process Duration Estimation
- 5.2.5 IRS Participant Motivation
- 5.2.6 IRS Section Interviews
- 5.2.7 Manager Interviews
- 5.2.8 IRS Report Consolidation
- 5.2.9 PQA Closing Out IRS
- 5.2.10 The IRS Consolidated Report
- 5.3 The Object Lifecycle Analysis
- 5.4 IRS Case Studies
- 5.5 Solution Design and Development
- 5.6 Simulated Accept-Testing
- 5.7 Final Accept-Testing and Sign Off
- 5.8 Solution Operation Kick-Off
- 5.9 Lessons Learned
- Chapter 6 Strategy Governance
- Chapter 7 Agile Strategy Management Recap
- Appendix A: PQA Introduction to Participants Example
- Appendix B: PQA Workshop Result Example
- Appendix C: Delivery of Consultative Services Framework Agreement between Bank and Solution Provider Contract No. 999
- Appendix D: Consultative Services Agreement under Delivery of Consultative Services Framework Agreement 999 between Bank and Solution Provider
- Appendix E: Introduction to Participants in Information Requirements Study
- Appendix F: FOSIS Information Requirements Study OLA Consolidated Report Extract with Summary and Conclusion 2013
- Appendix G: Order Handling IRS Section Report Example
- Index
Product information
- Title: Agile Strategy Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): Auerbach Publications
- ISBN: 9781351122818
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