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Despite the huge increase in uncertainty from fast-emerging competitive threats and market disruption, many companies remain blindly faithful to traditional organizational structures, processes and policies designed for the Industrial Age.

In the Information Age, the companies that will compete and win recognize that change must be exploited for competitive advantage, and that business agility – the ability to sense and adapt all aspects of the firm at the pace of market and competitive change – is THE core leadership and organizational competency of the future.

 

Business agility is THE core leadership and organizational competency of the future.

The Path to Business Agility: Holistic Transformation in Uncertain Times

Presented by Evan Campbell and George Schlitz

 

In this webinar, the first in our Business Agility webinar series, Evan Campbell and George Schlitz look at the traditional business, the stories and the people that make it what it is, and ask WHY: why do businesses continue to value the old ways and why are people at the center of the need for change? He will also compare today’s businesses with the learning organization, which embodies business agility, and ask HOW: how does business agility enable enterprises to thrive in complexity and how can we transform businesses into learning organizations?

Learning Objectives:

  • Clarify the need for businesses and individuals to materially transform
  • Explore what business agility is and how it addresses this need
    • How business agility puts many of today’s business buzzwords (e.g., Agile, Lean, DevOps, Digital, Design Thinking) into a shared context
    • Learn the four organizational capabilities that together enable business agility to emerge
  • Identify common obstacles to business agility in today’s workplaces

 

Don’t forget to read the Follow-up Q&A!

Leadership Effectiveness: Guiding the Way to Business Agility

Presented by George Schlitz and Katrina Ferguson

 

Through decades of research and our own hands-on experience, we know that this kind of change demands more than a behavioral adjustment; it requires a paradigm shift in how leaders think about their role and their organization’s, and how the two blend together. This is Agile leadership in its most essential form.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn why being open to the idea that that leadership has both an interior aspect and an exterior aspect is essential to succeeding in our VUCA world.
  • Understand what is meant by a learning organization and why this is important for all leaders to grasp.
  • Explore the relationship between a leader’s own inner development and the organization’s ability to transform.

 

Don’t forget to read the Follow-up Q&A!

Organizational Adaptability Through Active Executive Sponsorship

Presented by Brent Barton (SolutionsIQ) and Mike De Luca (Beyond Budgeting Round Table North America)

 

Many organizations are on their second, third, fourth and even fifth attempts to implement Agile in an effort to update business processes and reap the benefits of enterprise agility. Despite so many failed attempts, they keep trying – but why? Part of the reason is that the need for Agile transformation is still deeply felt, whereas the approach to implementation has been lacking active executive sponsorship.

In this webinar, Brent and Mike discuss how leaders must stop delegating point solutions and start creating an effective organizational change alliance.

Learning Objectives

  • Articulate the difference between active executive sponsorship and delegation
  • Understand why executive delegation fails to produce desired results
  • Understand the key points of effective and active executive sponsorship
  • Understand how active executive sponsorship enables organizations to evolve continuous portfolio and financial management and planning approaches to be lean and responsive

Enabling Product Innovation Through Agile Product Management

Presented by Adam Asch and George Schlitz

 

In this webinar, the fourth installation of the Business Agility Webinar Series, George Schlitz and Adam Asch connects the dots between product management in Agile organizations and product innovation, a capability necessary for business agility. Through compelling stories with enterprise clients, they will cover the key aspects of Agile Product Management and how each differs from their traditional counterparts. They will also provide actionable ways you can assess how your organization’s existing product management is hindering or helping your business agility.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the aspects of Agile Product Management and the key differences in each of those aspects
  2. Understand the critical part that Agile Product Management plays in business agility
  3. Understand the roles that approaches like Scrum, Lean Startup, Design Thinking and more play in the greater Agile Product Management process and, by extension, business agility
  4. Leave with ways you can assess the agility of your own organization’s product management

Delivery Agility: The (Imaginary) Battle Between Agile & DevOps

Presented by Dave Haws and Greg Bledsoe

In this webinar, the fifth and final installation in our Business Agility Webinar Series, we seek to return focus to the true problem – actually delivering high-quality products, services and technology using approaches that foster a collaborative, transparent and sustainable culture – which we call “Delivery Agility.” Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Dave Haws and Greg Bledsoe set aside the jargon to identify necessary mindset shifts that still impede Delivery Agility and outline ways that businesses can forge ahead.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand what Agile delivery is, what DevOps is, and why both strive for the same outcome
  2. Understand high-level concepts like software craftsmanship, personal development and accountability, team dynamics, servant leadership, feedback loops, and value stream in an Agile context
  3. How Delivery Agility is foundational to customer delight
  4. Be able to identify common obstacles to Delivery Agility in your own organization

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