Beyond Agile: A New Value Paradigm for Volatile Times
Erich R. Bühler
Philanthropist, logosophist, founder and CEO of Hanna Prodigy and Enterprise Agility University. Author of Leading Exponential Change, Enterprise Agility Fundamentals, and The Convergence.
Leaders worldwide face a stark reality—past certainties are gone. Disruptive digital innovations, global interconnectivity, and rapidly advancing technologies have created an environment of constant, unpredictable change. Conventional management practices predicated on stability and incremental progress are floundering. While agile mindset and frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, and Business Agility brought needed flexibility to software and product development, they fall short in enabling enterprise-wide resilience amidst accelerating disruption.
In this tumultuous landscape, leaders require new ways of thinking to steer their organizations. The TriValue Company (TVC) model provides an essential compass for navigating ambiguity and leading with vision focused on human potential and shared progress.
Where agile and business agility ways of working focus on optimizing team workflows and customer value, TVC takes a systemic perspective balancing financial, social, and human priorities holistically.
TVC encompasses three key value dimensions—customer value, company value, and workforce wellbeing value. Each has specific indicators to guide decisions and strategy. This inclusive framework moves beyond profit-centric or customer-centric models to sustainably optimize mutual benefit through partnership, or what we call Shared Progress.
The turbulent seas ahead demand vessels designed for adaptability, not predictable conditions. TVC readies organizations to harness change, not resist it. Leaders align strategies, people, and resources to key signals of emerging threats and opportunities. It also empowers cross-functional teams to capitalize on new possibilities based on data-driven insights.
With its emphasis on foresight, TVC also equips leaders to navigate uncertainty. Practices like Future Thinking—another component of TVC—anticipate trends and signals up to 3 years out.?
While quarterly forecasts dominate in most companies, Future Thinking in TVC takes a longer-range view to promote strategic foresight. Leaders scan the horizon for trends and signals that may reshape markets, technology, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. By looking further ahead, they gain perspective to preemptively adapt strategies and business models before change overwhelms the organization.
Future Thinking provides a framework to determine the key forces that will influence future success.
Leaders identify strategic priorities and make calculated "bets" on opportunities or partnerships that will drive innovation. People and skills are invested in the capabilities needed to capitalize on the trends anticipated.
TriValue Company and Futures model are Enterprise Agility's comprehensive value-creation and financial frameworks.
Collective Strategic Sensing is also a crucial part of TVC. It reveals market forces along with internal dynamics shaping readiness. Leaders gain an integrated view to respond strategically. It empowers with new ways of sensing the markets and the company.?
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Exponential change rewards those who seek opportunity in upheaval. With TVC's compass, leaders can guide their organizations through disruption to new horizons. They focus on continuity, innovation, and impact that uplift society's full potential.
TVC transforms turbulence into a journey of discovery led by vision, science, and care for our shared future. Leaders who embrace this bold model will thrive amidst the trials ahead and forge new possibilities.?
Have a great week!
Erich R. Bühler
CEO, Enterprise Agility University
Scrum Master, Digital Transformation
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