Radical Business Agility

Navigating Through Uncertain Times

Hans Amell

• Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781612545448
• eBook ISBN:
  9781612545660
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Strategy
• Index: Business

How to prepare your business to respond quickly and effectively to the turbulence caused by politics, climate change, pandemics, and economic uncertainty.
Future success depends upon the ability to adapt to colossal, rapid changes that lie ahead. Public and private organizational life is changing dramatically. We do not have the luxury of time anymore. Product cycles are shorter and job security is uncertain. Everything is moving faster, and we are experiencing an exponential growth of new technologies and systems pouring into our society. There is uncertainty in the geopolitical arena, and with climate change. There are pandemics, conflicts, and fiscal volatility stress. These challenges make it imperative to become responsive and practice agility in business.
Radical Agility provides insight into key factors necessary for agility and the different ways to make your organization more adaptive. It also provides a compendium of tools that will help you implement agile practices into the processes, systems, organizational structure, and business culture in your industry in order to overcome inhibitors of agility—and long-term business success.
"A practical, pragmatic guide for leaders who understand the need for real, lasting agility but struggle to make it their reality." —Andrea Fryrear, President and Co-founder, AgileSherpas
"A timely book that provides context and actionable patterns for this new 'organizational sensing' that brings true business agility." —Matthew Skelton, Director at Conflux and coauthor of Team Topologies
"This book provides the vision, and more importantly the advice, to help get you and then keep you on the path to business agility." —Scott Ambler, VP & Chief Scientist for Disciplined Agile, Project Management Institute

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Part I: Megatrends and Opportunities
• Chapter 1: The Singularity
• Chapter 2: Abundance Versus Scarcity
• Chapter 3: Disruptive Technologies
• Chapter 4: Societal Shifts
• Chapter 5: Environmental Consciousness on the Rise
• Chapter 6: Negotiating Megatrends Demands Agility
• Part II: The Perfect Storm
• Chapter 7: Economic Uncertainty Rising
• Chapter 8: A Holistic Look at Agile Impacts
• Part III: Get Agile Now!
• Chapter 9: The Age of Agility is Here
• Chapter 10: Agile Decisions, Agile Executions
• Chapter 11: Overcoming the Big Inhibitors of Change
• Chapter 12: Incorporating Agility
• Chapter 13: Dynamic Navigational System Tools and Modules
• PART IV: The Agility Toolbox
• Tool One: Understanding Transformation and Agility
• Tool Two: Forward Decision Drivers: Constant Monitoring (FDDs)
• Tool Three: The Seven S Framework
• Tool Four: Inclusiveness Funnel (IFS)
• Tool Five: The Rolling Budget System (RBS)
• Tool Six: Marketing Responsibility Assessment (MRA)
• Tool Seven: Overhead Value Analysis (OVA)
• Tool Eight: Simple, Effective Leadership Assessment
• Tool Nine: Carve-Outsourcing Services (CORE) for Specialized Functions
• Tool Ten: Injecting Entrepreneurship
• Tool Eleven: The Strategic Triangle
• Tool Twelve: STA+R Training Analysis
• Tool Thirteen: Dynamic Navigational System DNS/DNC
• Tool Fourteen: Advanced Leadership Agility Coaching
• Additional Tools and Methods
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• About the Authors
• Back Cover