Radical Business Agility: Navigating Through Uncertain Times

Radical Business Agility: Navigating Through Uncertain Times

Review "Effective leadership is one of the lynchpins of a successful and agile organization, but getting traditional executives to embrace agility can be tough. Radical Business Agility is 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 "Navigating the contemporary business landscape requires organizations to consider not just market forces, rapidly changing regulatory contexts, fluctuating trade relations, pandemic-driven travel restrictions, huge environmental change and increased competition, but also radically innovative technologies (many driven or enabled by software) that are making obsolete things that seemed new only recently. It's no longer enough to merely follow the leading companies; to survive, organizations must anticipate the future trends using approaches like Wardley Mapping and Domain-driven design (DDD), combined with sense-making techniques like Cynefin(R) and Team Topologies. And only by explicitly enabling the organization to 'sense' its environment can leaders expect to achieve business agility. Radical Business Agility by Hans Amell and Kurt Larsson is 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 Co-Author of Team Topologies "The unfortunate reality is that agile transformations would be better called fragile transformations. It is too easy to unknowingly downplay a critical area that compromises, and often ends, your improvement journey. 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 Product Description Future success depends upon the ability to respond with agility 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 and practice agility in business. Radical Agility provides insight into key factors necessary for agility and the different ways to make your organization more agile. 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. About the Author Hans Amell, is a Harvard trained Swede who has lived in the U.S.A. since 1987. He is a McKinsey alumnus, and former executive officer in leading global corporations such as Dun and Bradstreet Group, Cognizant Corp, Ericsson and others. He is called upon to execute major change in corporations and institutions via board memberships or via his company, Catalyst Acquisition Group. Mr. Amell is also the founding partner in the Minerva Group and its parent CAG International AG. He is a leading player in the cutting edge of agile consulting services with his Dynamic Navigational System products and in the application of efficient blended learning solutions for large organizations. He was also the lead founder and Executive Chairman of Intrepid Learning Systems and created Gartner Custom Research after acquiring the GCR unit from Gartner. His passion is creating and applying agility within organizations that understand the need for quicker implementation of change, but very wisely recognize they will need assistance to accomplish this. Kurt Larsson is an American