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Installing agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change unless you lay the groundwork with six key enabling factors, identified by the United Kingdom's leading agile consulting firm, Agile Centre.

An ever-growing pile of frameworks and tools falsely offer an “easy route” to organizational agility. However, responding to rapid market change requires you alter so much more than just your way of working. Your work style is only one of six factors that the Agile Centre's research identifies as the key to success. From years of experience certifying people in agile leadership, product ownership, and scrum mastery, Karim Harbott has created a model that will help your organization achieve all six factors required for success: leadership, culture, structure, engagement, and governance as well as ways of working together. Drawing from Harbott's famous Business Agility Canvas, this book will help leaders get realistic about the scope of the changes needed in their organization and show them how to get started.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: About This Book
    1. Business Agility and the Organizational Operating System
    2. Why I Wrote This Book
    3. My Two Key Drivers
    4. How This Book Works
  7. Chapter 1. The Changing Business Climate
    1. Exploring and Exploiting: Two Key Organizational Activities
    2. The Twentieth-Century Organization: Exploiting with Efficiency
    3. The Rise of VUCA: The Game Has Changed
    4. The Modern Organization: Exploring with Agility
  8. Chapter 2. Introducing Business Agility
    1. Breaking Out of the Status Quo: Beyond Belief Perseverance
    2. The Three Waves of Agility: From 17 Software Engineers to the Boardroom
    3. Business Agility: Cautionary Tales from History
    4. No Sacred Cows: Disrupting Yourself
  9. Chapter 3. The 6 Enablers of Business Agility
    1. Why Agility Initiatives Fail: A Narrow Focus
    2. Introducing the 6 Enablers of Business Agility: Taking a Holistic Approach
    3. Leadership and Management
    4. Organizational Culture
    5. Organizational Structure
    6. People and Engagement
    7. Governance and Funding
    8. Ways of Working
    9. Putting It All Together
  10. Chapter 4. Leadership and Management
    1. The Birth of Management: The Emerging Imperative
    2. Early Management: Back to the Pioneers
    3. Reinventing Management: What Worked Before
    4. Twenty-First-Century Leadership: Some Emerging Approaches
    5. Agile Leadership: Three Key Mindset Shifts
  11. Chapter 5. Organizational Culture
    1. Why Culture Matters: Lessons from a Failing Car Plant
    2. Modeling Culture: Making Tangible the Intangible
    3. Shifting Culture: Changing by Not Changing
    4. Moving beyond Words: Creating an Environment for Agility
  12. Chapter 6. Organizational Structure
    1. The Importance of Structure: Adopting Electricity
    2. Principle One: Customer-Centricity
    3. Principle Two: Small, Cross-Functional Teams
    4. Principle Three: The Network of Interconnected Teams
    5. Principle Four: Ambidextrous Organizations
    6. The Importance of Structure: Fighting Terrorism in Iraq
  13. Chapter 7. People and Engagement
    1. The Case for Employee Engagement: Wake Up and Smell the Success
    2. The Neuroscience of Knowledge Work: Priming the Brain for Thinking
    3. Managing for Engagement: From Compliance to Creativity
    4. Reinventing HR: A Twenty-First-Century Approach
  14. Chapter 8. Governance and Funding
    1. Budgets, Projects, and Outputs: Building the House of Cards
    2. Customers, Value, and Outcomes: Taming Uncertainty
    3. Managing the Portfolio: The Right Tool at the Right Time
    4. Searching: Casting the Net Wide
    5. Developing: Bringing Ideas to Life
  15. Chapter 9 Ways of Working
    1. Daily Team Practices: Patterns for Collaboration
    2. Kaizen: A Mindset of Continuous Improvement
    3. Measuring Performance: More Value with Less Work
  16. Chapter 10 Leading the Change
    1. Why Most Change Fails: Avoiding the Pitfalls
    2. Seven Principles of Leading Change: Laying the Foundations
    3. The Business Agility Canvas: Your Transformation
    4. Working with the Canvas: Change as the New Normal
  17. Notes
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
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