Inner Building Blocks : Preview

Agile is the ability to quickly and naturally adapt to respond to changes. Most companies are inherently fragile and not agile—when they are hit by new developments, shifting consumer behavior or competition, they struggle, falter and even cease to exist!

Lean is all about delivering the right product, in the right amount, in the right quality, at the right time and at the right price to the customer!

Design thinking is a human centric problem-solving process grounded in deeply understanding customer’s needs,?rapid prototyping, and generating creative solutions.

Enterprise agility encompasses the value and principles of Lean, Agile and Design Thinking. Embracing a well-rounded systems view of enterprise agility accelerates the success of digital transformations.

From the time agile manifesto was written in 2001, a significantly large number of organizations have initiated multi-year transformation programs with varying levels of commitments and rigor in their adoptions. Additionally, during the past six to eight years, multiple scaling agile frameworks are becoming popular as a means to “standardize” agile methodologies- scrum, Kanban, and XP. The notion of agile is continuously growing from a software development methodology to a lightweight substitute to project management.

However, a relatively smaller percentage of organizations implementing and/or scaling agile can genuinely claim to have sustained enterprise-wide agility leading to meaningful impact, tangible outcomes and measurable financial results.

This is because we have restricted our understanding of agility to a limited subset of agile methods and scaling processes, or have confined agile to a "lesser evil" alternative to traditional project management. While the methods and practices like stand-ups, scrum ceremonies, backlog management are important, it could easily mislead us by creating a charade of doing agile without genuinely transforming companies into vibrant, flexible and nimble entities.

Inner Building Blocks is a compelling novel about Neil Frost, a Director of Digital Transformation and Agile Centre of Excellence at Walkers Mart. The company is already grappling with a failing transformation and on the verge of bankruptcy when COVID-19 strikes!

Sid, the Coach instils constructive discomfort with probing questions and provocative dialogues to:

• Rethink agility and reimagine the future of work with hybrid models for remote teams.
• Launch a series of experiments to reinvent its structures, practices and culture.
• Discover twenty-six solutions to embrace lean-agile mindset for strategic agility.

Could the company survive amid the global pandemic and ensuing supply chain challenges?

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