Overview
Details what the C-level executive needs to know about agility management today to compete and win
Clarifies why so many companies are not seeing the benefits once promised by agility and how to fix those problems
Describes how to bring agility into the entire business and how to rework the strategic planning pieces to use Agile practices
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About this book
Transform your entire organization, not just a part of it. Take a modern look now that the world is focusing on business agility rather than thinking about team-level or even scaled Agile.
Many people and businesses believe that “doing Agile” will solve all their business and organizational problems. The truth is that “doing Agile”, especially team-level agility, is not the same as being an agile organization.
Authors Doug Dockery and Laureen Knudsen share their years of experience in transforming corporations and organizations to successfully compete and win in today’s fast-paced markets. Using proven techniques and stories of actual experiences in a multitude of organizations, Doug and Laureen relate what it takes to successfully transform your organization, as well as how to tell if your transformation is working.Modern Business Management details what you need to know to transform your business to deliver value and thrive. Coverage includes:
- What Agile means to an executive and the benefits you should be seeing
- The top failure modes and why so many transformations fail
- A framework for success, including an operational framework and a transformation framework
- How big data internal to a company is needed to successfully run a world-wide corporation today
- The definition of a modern business and what it looks like
What You’ll learn
- Understand why businesses are not getting the benefits out of their current Agile transformation
- Follow the process that organizations need to go through to succeed
- See how C-level executives can benefit from Agile practices
- Know how to succeed where others are failing
- Discover how to keep up with a constantly disrupted and ever-changing market
Who This Book Is For
Management and executives in corporations from the director level to the C-level
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Business Management
Book Subtitle: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization
Authors: Doug Dockery, Laureen Knudsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3261-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: CA 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3260-6Published: 01 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3261-3Published: 30 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Project Management, Software Engineering