Guiding Principles: Organizations as Living Organisms
Organizations that are purpose-driven with strong guiding principles help keep teams anchored to company values. When disagreements occur, or external events cause a crisis, guiding principles help re-frame the discussion, gain common ground, and empower the team to move forward.
Only organizations committed to digital transformation with technology-enabled collective intelligence and sensing systems can deliver real-time actionable intelligence and analytics. Such collective ecosystem sensing is what drives agile, proactive, predictive, adaptive and accountable decision making deep in the organization. Leaders can then do less managing and controlling and alot more Leading and creating a culture for relentless learning by clearly setting direction and expected outcomes with shared incentives.
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Organizations operating through empowered, self-sustaining and aligned cross-functional teams constantly experimenting and learning.New roles that orchestrate, rather than facilitate, help model desirable behaviors, generate healthy social dynamics, shift mindsets, and improve the stickiness of the desired change.
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Organizations with leaders at all levels attentive to leadership practices based on self reflection that promote empathy, generate trust, enable the giving and receiving of effective feedback, value while understanding and sometimes transforming the organization culture.
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Organizations that truly value people and ignite employee engagement with a clear and conscious transformational voice that emotionally connects and aligns all stakeholders to the transformation.
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Agile Strategy Execution |
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Leaders of most firms today are painfully aware of how difficult it is to execute strategies effectively in their organizations. Industry research has well documented this reality, with the success needle barely moving over the past 20 years. Agile Strategy Execution: Revolutionizing the HOW! Integrates 'agile concepts' with strategy execution ‘Best Practices’ resulting is an easy to understand set of principles and techniques, organized in a meaningful, practical and quickly deployable Agile Strategy Execution Framework™ (ASEF).
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The ASE Framework™ is composed of six Dimensions and two organizational enabling or disabling Influencing Factors presented through the eyes of firms where it has been successfully used to drive improved agility in how strategy gets executed. The authors’ expect this book will help leaders and strategy practitioners revolutionize their business models by becoming more agile in an aligned, accountable and responsive way.
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Detailed Plans and Metrics Dimension
Incorporate a systematic and disciplined approach that focuses on translating breakthrough organizational goals, objectives and strategies into specific functional area, team and individual plans and their associated metrics.
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Align and Link Dimension
Ensure that strategic goals are aligned and linked to projects, programs, run-the-business activities and process improvement efforts both vertically and cross-functionally driving progress/actions at all organizational levels.
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Real-Time Updates Dimension
Institutionalize an online transparent Single Source of Truth for all plan collaboration, team engagement and leadership reporting and then driving real-time plan updates based on day-to-day triggers, ensuring properly prioritized and scheduled work.
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Cadence Decisions Dimension
Enable proactive real-time resourcing, course correction solutioning and backlog management decision making processes.
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Innovation Bets Dimension
Identify and execute small opportunities to study, pilot or test new innovations that reflect current market conditions, new technology or other advances.
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Refresh and Transform Dimension
Reassess core business assumptions, updating strategic plans and tactics, reviewing priorities, linkages and alignment and then pivoting as needed.
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Culture Influencing Factor
Assess formal vs. informal, and preached vs. practiced corporate culture. Leaders can then either use their culture as an enabling driver for managing change or if needed initiate processes to drive needed culture change. |
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Connected Governance™ Influencing Factor
Strengthening agility by connecting leadership practices, employee engagement mechanisms and collaboration processes through leading-edge digital experiences that provide Actionable Intelligence.
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