Book description
Practical Guidance and Inspiration for Launching, Sustaining, or Improving Any Agile Enterprise Transformation Initiative
As long-time competitive advantages disappear, astute executives and change agents know they must achieve true agile transformation. In Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg reveals what works, what doesn't, and how to overcome the daunting obstacles.
Distilling 10+ years of experience leading agile transformation in the enterprise, Hesselberg guides you on jumpstarting change, sustaining momentum, and executing superbly on customer commitments as you move forward. He helps you identify appropriate roles for consultants, optimize organizational structures, set realistic expectations, and measure against them. He shares first-hand accounts from pioneering transformation leaders at firms including Intel, Nokia, Salesforce.com, Spotify, and many more.
• Balance building the right thing, the right way, at the right speed
• Design a holistic transformation strategy using five dimensions of agility: Technology, Organizational Design, People, Leadership, and Culture
• Promote agile skills, knowledge, and abilities throughout your workforce
• Incorporate powerful leadership models, including Level 5, Teal, and Beyond Budgeting
• Leverage business agility metrics to affect norms and change organizational culture
• Establish your Agile Working Group, the engine of agile transformation
• Define operating models and strategic roadmaps for unlocking agility, and track your progress
You already know agile transformation is essential. Now, discover how to customize your strategy, execute on it in your environment, and achieve it.
Table of contents
- Cover
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Foreword by Bjarte Bogsnes
- Foreword by Rich Sheridan
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part I: The Case for Agility
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Part II: Five Dimensions of Agility
- Chapter 3: Technology
- Chapter 4: Organizational Design
- Chapter 5: People
- Chapter 6: Leadership
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Chapter 7: Culture
- The Profound Impact of Culture
- How We Experience Culture
- The Schneider Culture Model
- Culture’s Impact to Sustaining Change
- Characteristics of Business Agility Metrics
- Examples of Meaningful Business Agility Metrics
- Performance System Changes → Behavior Changes → Culture Changes
- Summary
- Q&A
- Further Resources
- Footnotes
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Part III: Unlocking Agility
- Chapter 8: Building Your Organization’s Agile Working Group
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Chapter 9: An Operating Model for Business Agility
- Unlocking Agility: Embrace Change, Execute with Purpose
- Exploration: An Engine for Embracing Change
- Exploitation: Executing Proven Strategies with Purpose
- Creating a Balance: Embracing Change and Executing with Purpose in the Right Proportions
- On Scaling Frameworks
- Summary
- Q&A
- Further Resources
- Footnotes
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Chapter 10: Unlocking Agility: A Strategic Roadmap
- Unlocking Enterprise Agility: A High-Level Strategic Roadmap
- What Agility Looks Like in Action: Applying the Five Dimensions of Organizational Agility
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Identifying and Driving Change Through an Organizational Improvement Backlog
- Unlocking Agility in an Agile Manner
- Step 1: Define and Communicate a Clear Purpose for the Transformation
- Step 2: Identify Key Impediments Preventing Us from Reaching the Goal
- Step 3: Build and Execute the Transformation Backlog
- Step 4: Maintain Momentum: Continuously Monitor Progress, Communicate Results, Seek Feedback, and Celebrate Failures
- Top 10 Items Leading to Transformation Failure
- Seven Signs You’re on Your Way to Unlocking Agility
- The Road Ahead: Now What?
- Summary
- Q&A
- Further Resources
- Footnotes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Unlocking Agility: An Insider's Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2018
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780134542850
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