Enterprise agility : being agile in a changing world / Sunil Mundra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mundra, Sunil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Management.

Organizational change.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing Ltd, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mundra Sunil: Sunil Mundra is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks with decades of experience consulting, working with some of the world's largest enterprises. He has helped organizations tackle their most urgent business challenges and has worked with senior executives to shape and execute their roadmap for change. ThoughtWorks is a global software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. Our teams think disruptively to deliver empowering technology that addresses clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.

Summary:

Enterprise Agility is practical framework for enhancing Agility and equipping your company with the tools to survive. About This Book Prepare your company to navigate the rapidly-moving business world Enhance Agility in every component of your organization Build a framework that meets the unique requirements of your enterprise Who This Book Is For Enterprise Agility is a tool for anyone with the motivation to influence outcomes in an enterprise, who aspires to improve Agility. Readers from the following backgrounds will benefit: chief executive officer, chief information officer, people/human resource director, information technology director, head of change program, head of transformation, and Agile coach/consultant. What You Will Learn Drive agility-oriented change across the enterprise Understand why agility matters (more than ever) to modern enterprises Adopt and influence an Agile mindset in your teams and in your organization Understand the concept of a CAS and how to model enterprise and leadership behaviors on CAS characteristics to enhance enterprise agility Understand and convey the differences between Agile and true enterprise agility Create an enterprise-specific action plan to enhance agility Become a champion for enterprise agility Recognize the advantages and challenges of distributed teams, and how Agile ways of working can remedy the rough spots Enable and motivate your IT partners to adopt Agile ways of working In Detail The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head on and thrive in the dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty, Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment. Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems, also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS), are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively. Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied, but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individua...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 - Fast-Paced Change - Threat or Opportunity?

The significance of the fourth industrial revolution

Change as an opportunity

Summary

References

Chapter 2 - From Agile to Agility

The values and principles of Agile

The need for enhancing agility

Adopting Agile is not enough

Enhancing agility is not the same as Agile transformation

Capabilities underlying agility

Properties of agility

Characteristics of enterprises with high agility

Optimal agility

Part Two

Chapter 3 - The Enterprise as a Living System

The mechanistic approach that is outdated for enterprise modeling

Need to reinfuse "life" into enterprises

Complex adaptive systems (CAS) - a proven model of high agility

What are CAS?

Characteristics of a CAS

Reasons for high agility in a CAS

Implications for enterprises

Chapter 4 - Mindset and Culture

Significance

What is mindset?

What is culture?

The culture and mindset ecosystem

Changing mindset and culture

Values aligned to agility

Behaviors aligned to agility

Enabling behavior changes

Aligning the workplace to an agility-enabling culture

Chapter 5 - Leadership

Dimensions of leadership

Personal traits

Behavioral capabilities

Part Three

Chapter 6 - Organization Structure

Inhibitors to agility

Enablers for enhancing agility

Chapter 7 - Process

Chapter 8 - People

Enablers to agility

Chapter 9 - Technology.

Significance

COTS products for core capabilities

Chapter 10 - Governance

Chapter 11 - Customer

Inhibitors to the effectiveness of agility

Enablers to the effectiveness of agility

Part Four

Chapter 12 - Distributed Teams

Chapter 13 - Technology Partners

Part Five

Chapter 14 - Framework for Action

Leadership alignment on the need for change

Redefine/validate the purpose of the enterprise

Define the capabilities underlying agility

Translate intent into action

Agility as a journey and not a destination

Chapter 15 - Facilitating Change

Learnings

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Index.

Notes:

"Expert insight."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788991223

1788991222

OCLC:

1044958784