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

Table of Contents

PART I:  THE CASE FOR AGILITY     
  Chapter 1  The Agile Imperative     

1. Athens Beats Microsoft     
2. Origins of Modern Management 
3. Leadership in a Complex World     
4. Business Agility: Accelerating Organizational Learning     
5. Summary     
6. Q&A     
7. Further Resources     
8. Footnotes     

Chapter 2  Enterprise Agility  

1. Defining Enterprise Agility 
2. Designing Business Agility: Balancing Three Critical Levers     
3. Unlocking Agility in the Enterprise   
4. Performance Multipliers: Five Critical Dimensions of Agility    
5. Summary     
6. Q&A     
7. Further Resources     
8. Footnotes     

PART II:  FIVE DIMENSIONS OF AGILITY     
Chapter 3  Technology     

1. Building the Right Thing: Creating Products Customers Love 
2. Building the Thing Right   
3. Building at the Right Speed: Optimizing for Flow   
4. Summary     
5. Q&A     
6. Further Resources     
7. Footnotes     

Chapter 4  Organizational Design  

1. Physical Workplace Design     
2. Organizational Structure   
3. Heuristics of Agile Organizational Designs   
4. Summary     
5. Q&A     
6. Further Resources     
7. Footnotes     

Chapter 5  People   

1. Never Underestimate the Importance of People     
2. Characteristics of People in Agile Organizations   
3. Strategies for Building an Environment Supportive of Agile People     
4. Implications for HR in an Agile Organization  
5. Summary     
6. Q&A     
7. Further Resources    
8. Footnotes    

Chapter 6  Leadership   

1. Impact of Leadership 
2. Teal Leadership   
3. Beyond Budgeting: An Agile Management Model     
4. The Death of the Traditional CEO?     
5. Three Essential Themes of Agile Leadership     
6. Summary     
7. Q&A     
8. Further Resources     
9. Footnotes     

Chapter 7  Culture    

1. The Profound Impact of Culture    
2. How We Experience Culture    
3. The Schneider Culture Model    
4. Culture’s Impact to Sustaining Change    
5. Characteristics of Business Agility Metrics    
6. Examples of Meaningful Business Agility Metrics   
7. Performance System Changes -> Behavior Changes -> Culture
8. Changes    
9. Summary    
10. Q&A    
11. Further Resources    
12. Footnotes     

PART III: UNLOCKING AGILITY    
Chapter 8  Building Your Organization’s Agile Working Group     

1. The AWG: Mission and Purpose    
2. Characteristics of the AWG    
3. Role of External Consultants    
4. Organizational Structure and the AWG    
5. Recruiting for the AWG    
6. The AWG: What’s in It for You?    
7. Summary    
8. Q&A    
9. Further Resources    
10. Footnotes    

Chapter 9  An Operating Model for Business Agility    

1. Unlocking Agility: Embrace Change, Execute with Purpose    
2. Exploration: An Engine for Embracing Change   
3. Exploitation: Executing Proven Strategies with Purpose    
4. Creating a Balance: Embracing Change and Executing with Purpose in the Right Proportions    
5. On Scaling Frameworks    
6. Summary    
7. Q&A    
8. Further Resources    
9. Footnotes    

Chapter 10  Unlocking Agility: A Strategic Roadmap    

1. Unlocking Enterprise Agility: A High-Level Strategic Roadmap    
2. What Agility Looks Like in Action: Applying the Five Dimensions of Organizational Agility    
3. Identifying and Driving Change Through an Organizational Improvement Backlog    
4. The Road Ahead: Now What?    
5. Summary    
6. Q&A    
7. Further Resources    
8. Footnotes    
9. Index