Enterprise

What does it take to make an Enterprise Agile?

We believe it takes a combination of elements to achieve enterprise agility. No suprise, it starts with Leadership. Along with our partners, we will help you develop your leadership agility in a variety of ways and at all levels, from the grassroots through middle management to the executive suite.

Leaders create Culture. Research shows that culture, more than anything, determines your ultimate success as an organization. Bottom line success, loyalty of customers, dedication and fulfillment of employees and stakeholders. There is an Agile culture, but more important is finding what YOUR culture is, the one your organization developed early on and most likely still has, even if diffused. We help you align the Big Three: Strategy, Culture, Leadership.

The third element is Team: conscious, disciplined, on-purpose teaming. Teams do not happen by collecting people and giving them an assignment. Teams develop through a clear performance challenge and then intentionally applying the discipline of teaming. We measure 14 essential factors that define the effective team. Then, in a short period of time, coach them to success. Think executive coaching, but multiply by a factor of 10.

An effective enterprise needs the right Process. We deal with process on two levels, or what we call Process Squared. The first is the familiar business process, the kind Deming made famous in helping the Japanese outcompete  U.S. industry. We specialize in Agile, Lean and CMMI. The second is the kind of process that happens in organizational relationships, within a human system unfolding over time. For this we rely on Process Psychology and Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching.

“Michael understands about as well as anyone out there, that taking Agile to the enterprise level is all about getting people to change their behaviors. Michael truly understands this and he approaches his work…from a people-centric viewpoint. This makes him remarkably effective at forging relationships with stakeholders in order to move projects forward.” -Roland Cuellar

The final element of the Agile Enterprise–the one that brings them all together–is Change Capacity. Without the ability to change rapidly, fluidly and appropriately, today’s enterprise will be lost. Besides culture, this is the other key–though often overlooked–job of the leader.  We use a variety of change models to help organizations decide on, process, and move through change.

We hope you will explore the pages here, get in dialogue with us, and discover how you can achieve whatever is trying to happen in your enterprise.  We will do whatever we can to help you make that happen!

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