The 6 Enablers of Business Agility (eBook)

How to Thrive in an Uncertain World

Karim Harbott (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
296 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5230-9007-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay the groundwork by creating the right environment for these tools to work.

Many managers struggle to install the underlying organizational operating system for business agility. High-performing agile organizations depend on the strength of six key enabling factors: leadership, culture, structure, people, governance, and ways of working. This book explains why these factors are important and how they work together to increase organizational agility. Real-world examples, stories, and tools will help leaders get realistic about the scope of changes needed in their organizations and show them how to get started.

Karim Harbott does not offer a book of recipes. Instead, he focuses on mindset, principles, and general patterns. This book summarizes of the most important factors in increasing organizational agility and why they work, which leaders will need to consider in a so-called agile transformation. Because every organization is different, each will have its own route to agility and high performance. Managers will need to tackle all the areas that are crucial to creating an environment in which any chosen approach can work.

Inhalt

Introduction - About This Book
• Business Agility & The Organizational Operating System
• Why I Wrote This Book
• My Two Key Drivers
• How This Book Works
Chapter 1 – The Changing Business Climate
• Exploring & Exploiting: Two Key Organisational Activities
• The Twentieth-Century Organization – Exploiting with Efficiency
• The Rise of VUCA: The Game Has Changed
• The Modern Organization – Exploring with Agility
Chapter 2 – Introducing Business Agility
• Breaking Out of the Status Quo: Beyond Belief Perseverance
• The Three Waves of Agile: From 17 Software Developers to the Boardroom
• Business Agility: Cautionary Tales from History
• No Sacred Cows: Disrupting Yourself
Chapter 3 – The 6 Enablers of Business Agility
• Why Agility Initiatives Fail: A Narrow Focus
• Introducing The 6 Enablers of Business Agility: Taking A Holistic Approach
• Leadership & Management
• Organisational Culture
• Organisational Structure
• People & Engagement
• Governance & Funding
• Ways of Working
• Pulling It All Together
Chapter 4 - Leadership & Management
• The Birth of Management: The Emerging Imperative
• Early Management: Back to the Pioneers
• Reinventing Management: What Worked Before…
• Twenty-First Century Leadership – Some Emerging Approaches
• Agile Leadership: Three Key Mindset Shifts
Chapter 5 - Organisational Culture
• Why Culture Matters: Lessons from a Failing Car Plant
• Modelling Culture: Making Tangible the Intangible
• Shifting Culture: Changing by Not Changing
• Moving Beyond Words: Creating an Environment for Agility
Chapter 6 - Organisational Structure
• The Importance of Structure: Adopting Electricity
• Principle One: Customer-Centricity
• Principle Two: Small, Cross-Functional Teams
• Principle Three: The Network of Interconnected Teams
• Principle Four: Ambidextrous Organisations
• The Importance of Structure: Fighting Terrorism in Iraq
Chapter 7 - People & Engagement
• The Case for Employee Engagement: Wake Up and Smell the Success
• The Neuroscience of Knowledge Work: Priming the Brain for Thinking
• Managing for Engagement: From Compliance to Creativity
• Reinventing HR: A Twenty-First Century Approach
Chapter 8 - Governance & Funding
• Projects, Budgets & Traditional Governance: Time for a Rethink
• Managing the Portfolio: Striking the Right Balance
• Searching: Casting the Net Wide
• Building & Scaling: Bringing Ideas to Life
Chapter 9 - Ways of Working
• Daily Team Practices: Patterns for Collaboration
• Kaizen: A Mindset of Continuous Improvement
• Measuring Performance: More Value with Less Work
Chapter 10 - Leading the Change
• Why Most Change Fails: Avoiding the Pitfalls
• Seven Principles of Leading Change: Laying the Foundations
• The Business Agility Canvas: Your Transformation on a Page
• Working with the Canvas: Change as the New Normal
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2021
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: agile coaching • Agile Leadership • agile management • business agility • business agility, project management, agile management, organizational development, organizational agility, leadership, agile leadership, management, agile coaching, scrum masters, business transformation, organizational change • Business Transformation • Leadership • Management • organizational agility • Organizational change • Organizational Development • Project Management • scrum masters
• ISBN-10: 1-5230-9007-3 / 1523090073
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5230-9007-5 / 9781523090075