Download or read book Assessing Organization Agility written by Christopher G. Worley and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “short format” publication would be a “tools” product that would describe how to assess an organization’s level of agility. The book will feature two forms of assessment. The first form will be a longer version that replicates the agility survey used in the research leading to the book. The second form will be an ‘on-line’ version of the survey which will provide an interactive means for quickly diagnosing and comparing one’s organization with different benchmark organizations. The short format book will describe the survey, the agility model, methods for comparing data against best practices, and diagnostic guidelines. It will also propose a set of intervention or change management processes for improving an organizations’ agility profile.
Download or read book Assessing Organization Agility written by Christopher G. Worley and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “short format” publication would be a “tools” product that would describe how to assess an organization’s level of agility. The book will feature two forms of assessment. The first form will be a longer version that replicates the agility survey used in the research leading to the book. The second form will be an ‘on-line’ version of the survey which will provide an interactive means for quickly diagnosing and comparing one’s organization with different benchmark organizations. The short format book will describe the survey, the agility model, methods for comparing data against best practices, and diagnostic guidelines. It will also propose a set of intervention or change management processes for improving an organizations’ agility profile.
Download or read book Assessing Organization Agility written by Christopher G. Worley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth agility evaluation for a more efficient response to change Assessing Organization Agility provides a clear, concise roadmap to improved implementation of change. Written by two organizational researchers at USC's Center for Effective Organizations and a management consultant with Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), this book provides the means for assessing an organization's agility and formulating an improvement plan. Beginning with a discussion about the meaning of "agility," the authors enumerate the various contributing factors that affect how quickly an organization responds to change, and the efficiency of the response. An agility survey shows readers how their own organization compares in terms of both perception and implementation, allowing the formulation of an "Agility Profile" that can point out strengths while highlighting areas in need of improvement. Case studies demonstrate the real-world impact of effective agility strategy, and example scenarios illustrate improved responses by each agility "type." Eighty percent of large-scale organizations fail to meet their objectives, and poor agility is often to blame. Organizations respond to changes in the marketplace, economy, and society by implementing changes in their processes and procedures, but planning and implementing change takes time. During that time, the context of the initial decision frequently evolves, leaving the organization one step behind. Agility is the ability to quickly implement change without sacrificing strategy, and Assessing Organization Agility helps readers to: Discover the organizational/operational factors that contribute to agility Assess current agility from all perspectives, highlighting areas for improvement Implement processes and procedures that streamline change events Maintain forward trajectory with adjustments to strategy and implementation The current pace of technical, competitive, and environmental change is faster than ever before, and response requirements are far more complex and sophisticated. In this turbulent environment, agility can mean the difference between success and stagnation. Assessing Organization Agility asks the questions and provides the answers that lead to better organizational reflex and more effective response.
Download or read book Assessing Your Organization s Agility written by Worley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This"short format" publication would be a "tools" product that would describe how to assess an organization's level of agility. The book will feature two forms of assessment. The first form will be a longer version that replicates the agility survey used in the research leading to the book. The second form will be an 'on-line' version of the survey which will provide an interactive means for quickly diagnosing and comparing one's organization with different benchmark organizations. The short format book will describe the survey, the agility model, methods for comparing data against best practices, and diagnostic guidelines. It will also propose a set of intervention or change management processes for improving an organizations' agility profile.
Download or read book The Agility Factor written by Christopher G. Worley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research-based approach to achieving long-term profitability in business What does it take to guarantee success and profitability over time? Authors Christopher G. Worley, a senior research scientist, Thomas D. Williams, an executive advisor, and Edward E. Lawler III, one of the country's leading management experts, set out to find the answer. In The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance the authors reveal the factors that drive long-term profitability based on the practices of successful companies that have consistently outperformed their peers. Of the 234 large companies across 18 industries that were studied, there were few companies that delivered sustained performance across the board. The authors found that across industries, the most successful companies were not the "usual suspects" found in the media, but companies who possessed a quiet agility that allowed them to quickly perceive and respond to changes so that they could continue to grow. Agility gives organizations the ability to adapt to fluctuations in the environment, test possible responses, and implement changes quickly. This book offers specific, research-based case studies to help organizational leaders use agility to achieve sustained profitability and performance while also becoming more adaptable to a changing marketplace. For executives, leaders, consultants, board members and all those responsible for the long-term health of organizations, this insightful guide outlines: The components of agility for business organizations How to successfully build agility within an organization How agility has its foundation in good management practices How to use agility to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
Download or read book Syngineering Building Agility into Any Organization written by Richard Evan Thayer and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Whether you are leading, sponsoring, or participating in corporate change, Syngineering can help you understand the specifics of your organization’s circumstances and determine the right approach to build in agility. Chocked full of practical tools with solid guidance throughout. From the common-sense idea of using the organizations’ own language to the critical relationship between culture and design, as the 4 detailed approaches for change for each of 4 generic cultures found around the world, sets this book apart from others.' Naomi Stanford, Author of Organization Design: The Practitioner’s Guide A New Comprehensive Framework for Building Agile Practices into Any Organization Regardless of Its Culture. In the disruptive volatility and complexity of today’s business world, yesterday’s problem-solving is no longer adequate. Organizations must have agility: people and process capabilities that can respond quickly to shifts in the external world. Syngineering, the term the authors have coined for how to meet this challenge, combines the best aspects of human dynamics, organization design, and the applications of technology. It replaces expert problem-solving with ‘design thinking’ and several other agile practices where employees collaborate in questioning, experimenting, and learning what’s needed as they develop meaningful and sustainable solutions. The book provides a framework and processes that can analyze the current environment and deliver the most effective design and change approach to fit the desired strategy and culture. Case studies from three different culture changes bring the methods to life. This practical and hands-on guide is for anyone working to improve organizational agility and performance. Gain agility, align and thrive.
Download or read book The Agile Self assessment Game written by Ben Linders and published by Ben Linders Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agile Self-Assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. Playing the game enables teams to reflect on their own team interworking, discover how agile they are and decide what they can do to increase their agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders. This is the first book specifically about Agile Self-assessments. In this book, Ben Linders explains what self-assessments are and why you would do them, and explores how to do them using the Agile Self-assessment Game. He's also sharing experience stories from people who played the game. This book is based on his experience as a developer, tester, team leader, project manager, quality manager, process manager, consultant, coach, trainer, and adviser in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement. It takes a deep dive into self-assessments, viewing them from different perspectives and provides ideas, suggestions, practices, and experiences that will help you to do effective agile self-assessments with your teams. The book is aimed at Scrum masters, agile coaches, consultants leading agile transformations, developers and testers, project managers, line managers, and CxOs; basically for anyone who is looking for an effective way to help their agile teams improve and to increase the agility of their organization. With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on Agile Self-assessments, this book will help you to apply assessments and help teams to improve. Note: The agile coaching cards needed to play the games described in the book can be downloaded for a nominal fee at benlinders.com/downloads.
Download or read book Business Agility Complete Self assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have all basic functions of Business Agility been defined? Are there any specific expectations or concerns about the Business Agility team, Business Agility itself? What about Business Agility Analysis of results? Who is the main stakeholder, with ultimate responsibility for driving Business Agility forward? Is there a recommended audit plan for routine surveillance inspections of Business Agility's gains? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Business Agility assessment. All the tools you need to an in-depth Business Agility Self-Assessment. Featuring 621 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Business Agility improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Business Agility projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Business Agility and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Business Agility Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Business Agility areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Business Agility Self-Assessment downloadable resource, which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book in a ready to use Excel dashboard, including the self-assessment, graphic insights, and project planning automation - all with examples to get you started with the assessment right away. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help.
Download or read book Building Change Agility written by Marge Combe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 90 percent of the executives surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked organizational agility for change as vital to business success yet most organizations struggle with how to prepare themselves to become more agile in how they manage--or react to--change. In Change Agility: Readiness for Strategy Implementation, a companion piece to this paper, the author suggests that the process of building change agility should be treated as an internal strategy, much like talent development, with periodic updates to the strategies for improvement, and a portfolio of programs and projects to implement these strategies. This supplemental paper focuses on practical suggestions for implementing a change agility improvement program that becomes part of the organization's strategic processes. It discusses each of the steps of the improvement process as it relates to change agility, paying special attention to effective methods for assessing where the organization may need to improve.
Download or read book Becoming Agile written by Christopher G. Worley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth example of The Agility Factor in action Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Reflecting the principles presented in The Agility Factor, readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This short-format case study of the French company Brioche Pasquier highlights how one organization successfully implemented the principles of agility using the socio-economic approach to management, detailing each step of the process and describing how every decision brought the goal closer within reach. Readers get inside the heads of decision makers to gain insight into how tough decisions were made, how new, important, and flexible management tools were implemented, and how the necessary changes ultimately benefitted both the organization and the people who made it work. From overarching policy to day-to-day procedure, the story provides a clear example of how an agile organization is developed, giving readers a foundation upon which to implement similar changes in their own organization. Smart companies understand the importance of agility, but identifying where and how to initiate those first steps often leads to paralysis by analysis. This case study allows readers to learn from an organization that got through the inertia and put the principles of agility into action, with incredible results. Understand how the principles of agility can be implemented using a specific intervention strategy Tailor those principles to suit any organization Calculate and convert the "hidden costs" of traditional organizational design into flexible, value added activities Formulate and execute an actionable agility strategy Big changes require a deep understanding of the problem at hand, and a viable plan for steering the organization in a better direction. By seeing how it's been done before, organizations can take a proven approach and tailor it to their specific needs. For those tasked with formulating the agility strategy, Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability provides invaluable insight.
Download or read book Organizational Agility Unleashed written by Kimberly Andrikaitis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash your organization! In a complex digital world, delayed projects can mean untold amounts of lost revenue. Organizational Agility Unleashed shares industry-leading situational expertise acquired over decades of helping organizations to overcome obstacles. These proven approaches will help you get high-priority products to market faster, and do so in repeatable and predictable patterns.Organizational Agility Unleashed will give you new leadership tools to: - Enable agility throughout your entire organization.- Optimize teams for consistent high performance.- Engage the full leadership team to create better, higher-quality products that customers love in the face of rapidly changing market demands.
Download or read book ORGANIC Agility Foundations written by Andrea Tomasini and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook was initially created with the attendees of the ORGANIC agility Masterclasses, but has evolved to include more and more content that proved valuable to anyone who likes to know more about - organizational resilience, - how to build Leadership into the organization, - which role culture plays in an Agile transformation- how strategy can become a living artifact in every organization- and many more. But be warned. It is not intended for everyone to just pick up and read, since it is dense, but it is meant as a concise collection of theory and practice.
Download or read book Its Time to Act written by Patrick K. Stacey and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Measures written by Mustafa Dülgerler and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations are spending significant amounts of time and money trying to improve their agility. But if project practitioners don't properly measure the results of these transformation programs, they'll never know whether or not they succeeded. Agility is the ability of an organization to sense change in its environment and respond quickly and appropriately, according to PMI's Pulse of the Profession®: Capturing the Value of Project Management Through Organizational Agility. Because changes around us never stop, project managers have to closely monitor organizational agility programs. The measurement process can be broken down into three phases -- before the agility transformation program, during it and after. A number of quantitative and qualitative measurements can be used, in addition to the ones specific to your industry.
Download or read book Agility written by Leo M. Tilman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Fourth Industrial Revolution barrels forward and the pace of disruption accelerates, all organizations must operate with agility. But this urgent priority, now widely-accepted by senior leaders, presents a major challenge: In business, government, and warfare, agility is a buzzword. There is no common understanding of what it means, or of what it takes to be consistently agile. In this groundbreaking book, Leo Tilman and Charles Jacoby offer the first comprehensive assessment of the fundamental nature of organizational agility and then describe the essential leadership practices for achieving it. They show that agility is far superior to mere speed or adaptability. Pinpointing its distinctive features, they define agility as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive environment in real time and then take decisive action. They demonstrate that agility enables an organization to outmaneuver competitors by seizing opportunities; better defending against threats; and acting as a well-orchestrated collective of teams that are empowered to take disciplined initiative. Combining their personal experience of building and leading agile organizations, Tilman in the realm of business and finance and Jacoby in battlefield command and homeland security, they present a powerful approach to fostering agility up and down an organization, and out to its very edges. They show how to detect opportunities and threats by fighting for risk intelligence; how to pierce through complexity and unleash creativity by nurturing a culture of honesty and trust; how to meld top-down vision and planning with decentralized execution; and how to enhance strategy by recognizing organizations as dynamic portfolios of risk. In a world where leaders and their teams must brave the unknown and step confidently forward - or risk extinction - Agility provides a vital roadmap for seizing the unprecedented possibilities of the new age and dominating change instead of being dominated by it.
Download or read book The Government Leader s Field Guide to Organizational Agility written by Sarah C. Miller and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to fully adapt the principles of agility for government leaders who want to make their organizations more effective and nimble while better serving their public mission. This practical resource will equip government leaders at all levels with evidence-based, hands-on guidance for transforming their organizations, enabling them to better serve the public and their customers. While many books focus on organizational agility for leaders of for-profit companies, this is the first one tailored to the unique requirements government leaders face. They must find a way to accomplish their mission while navigating constant change. Government leaders at all levels must maneuver their organizations through new, often complex challenges, ranging from new laws that impact their agencies, new technologies, changes in leadership, and unexpected events. By explaining how to manage and organize work differently, this guide will help leaders weather the storm of that constant change so they can help their agencies realize their missions and serve the public interest.
Download or read book Understanding Organizational Agility A Work Design Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper introduces a unified theoretical model of organizational agility and investigates the attributes of knowledge-intensive work-design systems, which contribute to achieving and sustaining organizational agility. Even though there has been considerable research on the topic of agility, these studies are not unified regarding their conceptualizations of agility and/or tend to adopt fairly limited views of agility dimensionality. Here, we organize a review of existing definitions and conceptual models of organizational agility, and proceed to advance a relatively comprehensive model built from a work-design perspective. This new model offers a theoretical platform for understanding organizational agility. This paper further investigates those attributes of a work design system that contribute to organizational agility. A knowledge-intensive work-design system is an example of an edge organization. Its governance mechanism "participant engagement governance, network governance, and system dynamic governance" involves three work-design levels: strategic, operational, and episodic. We contend that an entrepreneurial governance pattern has attributes contributing to organization agility, whereby the impetus for its work-design efforts stem not from some deep hierarchical authority pattern, but rather is distributed among participants and through their networking dynamics. These attributes allow each participant positioned at the edge of the system to stay alert and respond to environing trends and forces, on behalf of the system and in concert with the system. Results of an illustrative case study are reported.
