Unlocking Agility: An Insider's Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation

Today s enterprises see smaller, more nimble competitors devouring their businesses and obsoleting their markets at an ever-accelerating pace. Sustainable competitive advantages continue to shrink and disappear, as the average age of Fortune® 500 companies keeps declining. Smart executives know they must move from plan-driven, fixed-scope thinking to a discovery-driven approach characterized by learning, continuous improvement, and value delivery. They know they must learn how to capitalize on uncertainty, since it s now utterly impossible to prevent it. Yet, very few large enterprises have truly succeeded in this agile transformation. Unlocking Agility: An Insider s Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation focuses on overcoming the real challenges that stand in their way.
 
Author Jorgen Hesselberg has spent 15+ years leading successful enterprise transformation initiatives: this book brings together all he s learned about what works (and what doesn t). Hesselberg answers crucial questions like:

• What s the best way to start organizational change in large organizations?
• How can you sustain momentum beyond the initial honeymoon ?
• How do you create an environment of continuous learning, employee empowerment, and product discovery -- while still executing superbly in day-to-day customer commitments?
• What s the best role for external consultants and consulting firms?
• How do you lead coherent organizational change across multiple geographies, locations, and cultures?
• What organizational structures are likeliest to unlock lasting change, and how should these evolve over time?
• What type of organizational impact is realistic to expect?
• How can you measure success?

Replete with first-hand accounts from transformation leaders at companies including Cisco, HP, Spotify, Yahoo!, John Deere, Salesforce and Wal-Mart, the book provides indispensable practical insights for everyone seeking to build a truly agile enterprise.

Sommario

Forewords by Bjarte Bogsnes and Rich Sheridan     xix
Preface     xxv
Acknowledgments     xxxi
About the Author     xxxiii

PART I:  THE CASE FOR AGILITY     1
Chapter 1  The Agile Imperative     3
Athens Beats Microsoft     4
Origins of Modern Management     6
    Scientific Management: Building More Efficient Machines     7
    The Rise of the Knowledge Worker: Unlocking the Creative Potential     8
    Software Eats the World: Embracing Uncertainty and Becoming Agile     10
    VUCA and Cynefin: Orienting Businesses in a Brave New World     16
    The Cynefin Framework     18
Leadership in a Complex World     21
Business Agility: Accelerating Organizational Learning     22
Summary     24
Q&A     24
Further Resources     26
Footnotes     27
Chapter 2  Enterprise Agility     29
Defining Enterprise Agility     29
Designing Business Agility: Balancing Three Critical Levers     32
    Building the Right Thing (Value)     33
    Building the Thing Right (Quality)     40
    Building at the Right Speed (Optimizing for Flow)     43
Unlocking Agility in the Enterprise     50
Performance Multipliers: Five Critical Dimensions of Agility     51
Summary     53
Q&A     54
Further Resources     56
Footnotes     57

PART II:  FIVE DIMENSIONS OF AGILITY     59
Chapter 3  Technology     61
Building the Right Thing: Creating Products Customers Love     62
    Business Model Canvas: An Interactive Tool for Instant Alignment     62
    Lean Startup: A Method for Validating That You re Building a Product Worth Building     65
    Cost of Delay: Understanding the Impact of Time to Life Cycle Profits     68
Building the Thing Right     74
    Scrum: Building Value Incrementally and Iteratively     74
    Kanban: Taming Chaotic Environments Through Visualization     79
Building at the Right Speed: Optimizing for Flow     81
    XP     82
    Value Stream Mapping     86
Summary     89
Q&A     90
Further Resources     93
Footnotes     95
Chapter 4  Organizational Design     97
Physical Workplace Design     97
    Designing for Great Teams     98
    The Science Behind High-Performing Teams     99
    Case Study: More Effective Collaboration Spaces at NAVTEQ     100
Organizational Structure     107
    Functional Structure     108
    Divisional Structure     110
    Matrix Structure     111
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Info autore

Jorgen Hesselberg is cofounder of Comparative Agility, a leading agile assessment and continuous improvement platform. A proven thought leader of numerous successful enterprise transformation efforts since 2009, Jorgen provides strategic guidance, executive counsel, and coaching to some of the world’s most respected companies both as an internal change agent and an external consultant. He has trained thousands of people on agile and Scrum, disruptive innovation, and enterprise transformation strategy.

Passionate about making the world a better place to work, Jorgen is the former director and an active member of Supporting Agile Adoption, an Agile Alliance program dedicated to supporting those who apply agile principles and practices for agile transformation. Jorgen is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences. He earned his bachelor degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, his MBA at Iowa State University, and an MS in information technology at Northwestern University. He completed postgraduate coursework in finance and disruptive innovation at Harvard Business School.

Riassunto

Today’s enterprises see smaller, more nimble competitors devouring their businesses and obsoleting their markets at an ever-accelerating pace. “Sustainable” competitive advantages continue to shrink and disappear, as the average age of Fortune® 500 companies keeps declining. Smart executives know they must move from plan-driven, fixed-scope thinking to a discovery-driven approach characterized by learning, continuous improvement, and value delivery. They know they must learn how to capitalize on uncertainty, since it’s now utterly impossible to prevent it. Yet, very few large enterprises have truly succeeded in this agile transformation. Unlocking Agility: An Insider’s Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation focuses on overcoming the real challenges that stand in their way.

 

Author Jorgen Hesselberg has spent 15+ years leading successful enterprise transformation initiatives: this book brings together all he’s learned about what works (and what doesn’t). Hesselberg answers crucial questions like:

• What’s the best way to start organizational change in large organizations?
• How can you sustain momentum beyond the initial “honeymoon”?
• How do you create an environment of continuous learning, employee empowerment, and product discovery -- while still executing superbly in day-to-day customer commitments?
• What’s the best role for external consultants and consulting firms?
• How do you lead coherent organizational change across multiple geographies, locations, and cultures?
• What organizational structures are likeliest to unlock lasting change, and how should these evolve over time?
• What type of organizational impact is realistic to expect?
• How can you measure success?

Replete with first-hand accounts from transformation leaders at companies including Cisco, HP, Spotify, Yahoo!, John Deere, Salesforce and Wal-Mart, the book provides indispensable practical insights for everyone seeking to build a truly agile enterprise.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jorgen Hesselberg
• Editore: Addison-Wesley
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780134542843
• ISBN: 978-0-13-454284-3
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 179 mm x 232 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 572 g
• Serie: Signature; Addison-Wesley Signature Serie; Signature; Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management