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Achieving Business Agility

Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World

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  • Offers a how-to strategy to help implement business agility in your organization

  • Focuses on four specific change management strategies and how they combine to help guide your organization through transformation

  • Covers real-world examples of the application of strategies for finance, marketing, and management verticals

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. The Mechanics - Understanding Strategies to Achieve Business Agility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Sound the Alarm

      • John Orvos
      Pages 3-21
    3. Look in the Mirror

      • John Orvos
      Pages 23-41
    4. Shine the Light

      • John Orvos
      Pages 43-70
    5. Agile Business Realization

      • John Orvos
      Pages 71-119
  3. The Story - Strategies in Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. The Solar Corona Insurance Company

      • John Orvos
      Pages 123-130
    3. Sounding the Alarm at Solar Corona

      • John Orvos
      Pages 131-145
    4. Solar Corona Looks in the Mirror

      • John Orvos
      Pages 147-166
    5. Shining the Light on Solar Corona

      • John Orvos
      Pages 167-180
    6. Learning from Solar Corona

      • John Orvos
      Pages 187-189
  4. The Takeaway - Defining Your Company’s Journey

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
    2. Importance of Alignment

      • John Orvos
      Pages 193-200
    3. Your Journey Ahead

      • John Orvos
      Pages 201-202
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 203-213

About this book

Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear, actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset.

Achieving Business Agility offers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to effectively execute these strategies. Whether you are a delivery executive, a change advocate, a consultant, a business leader, or a newcomer to agile, you will learn clear actions from a practical, business-oriented perspective that is vital to effect change and bring agile into your business.

The book is structured in three sections. The first provides you with a deep understanding of each of four strategies. The second section tells the story of a company that applied these strategies through the eyes of several key players. The last section helps you get started applying what you learned in your own company.

What You’ll Learn

  • Get the attention of your executives by alerting them to a company problem that can impact them personally and create a sense of urgency to address it
  • Collaborate with your executives in a way that gets them to open up and to see how their operating model is a contributing cause to the company problem
  • Demonstrate how your executives can specifically benefit from a new agile business operating model and address the company problem
  • Create a reinforcement structure on a larger scale to establish agile as the new standard operating model in your organization

Who This Book Is For

Managers, business leaders, and consultants at/for large enterprises or small startups who want their company to better compete in today’s fast-moving markets that present threats and opportunities at every turn. No agile expertise is required.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Belle Mead, USA

    John Orvos

About the author

John Orvos brings techniques from over 20 years of experience as a business consultant, Agile practice leader, and award-winning agile strategist, John has led transformations alongside hundreds of agile consultants dealing with adopting and scaling Agile in Fortune 500 organization. Over the past two years, John has been asked by these customers how to accomplish even more ambitious goals—an agile business—in order for them to better compete against smaller digital disruptor competitors. John provides a fresh business-oriented perspective on how to enable an entire large organization to pivot, not just be agile in IT.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Achieving Business Agility

  • Book Subtitle: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital World

  • Authors: John Orvos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3855-4

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: CA 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3854-7Published: 11 October 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3855-4Published: 10 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Project Management, Software Engineering

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access