The 6 Enablers of Business Agility : How to Thrive in an Uncertain World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harbott, Karim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Management.

Organizational effectiveness.

Success in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

INTRODUCTION: About This Book

Business Agility and the Organizational Operating System

Why I Wrote This Book

My Two Key Drivers

How This Book Works

CHAPTER 1 The Changing Business Climate

Exploring and Exploiting: Two Key Organizational 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 Agility: From 17 Software Engineers 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 and Management

Organizational Culture

Organizational Structure

People and Engagement

Governance and Funding

Ways of Working

Putting It All Together

CHAPTER 4 Leadership and 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 Organizational Culture

Why Culture Matters: Lessons from a Failing Car Plant

Modeling Culture: Making Tangible the Intangible

Shifting Culture: Changing by Not Changing

Moving beyond Words: Creating an Environment for Agility

CHAPTER 6 Organizational 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 Organizations

The Importance of Structure: Fighting Terrorism in Iraq

CHAPTER 7 People and 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 and Funding

Budgets, Projects, and Outputs: Building the House of Cards

Customers, Value, and Outcomes: Taming Uncertainty

Managing the Portfolio: The Right Tool at the Right Time

Searching: Casting the Net Wide

Developing: 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

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781523090068

1523090065

OCLC:

1252427854