Doing Agile Right

 

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AGILE ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURES, AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Creating an agile enterprise nearly always involves changes in a company’s operating model and in all that the operating model entails. Roles and responsibilities need to be redefined and decision rights adjusted. Core management practices and procedures must be refined. Talent management practices have to be reconsidered and basic ways of working overhauled. Organizational structures must often be reshaped as well. Unless leaders decide to change everything at once—seldom the best option—they must figure out how to sequence and test all these changes in good agile fashion. It’s a tall order. People who are accustomed to bureaucratic methods—most leaders, in other words—often find ...