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Agile Transformation Survey

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Agilitek Corporation and Exclusive Edge Training & Consulting are conducting a joint survey to better understand how organizations go through the agile transformation journey. By participating in this ten-question survey, you will receive an executive report that can help you make an informed decision for your own organization.

As a CTO, a CIO, or a senior executive tasked with transforming a department or a business unit from one that uses traditional project management practices into one that leverages agile project management principles, you will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from your peers. Read more …

Align Portfolio Execution to Organizational Vision

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Align Portfolio Execution to Organizational Vision

The Standard for Portfolio Management (2013) lists vision, mission, and organizational strategy and objectives as the drivers of portfolio management. Portfolio management is a coordinated management of a collection of programs, projects and operations components. As part of portfolio management, it is imperative that the daily execution of various components continue to align with the organizational vision.

While on-going operations are recurring activities which produce value, programs and projects increase value production capability. All of these activities must be initiated, planned and executed in tandem to ensure that they continue to deliver the strategic objectives.

Elements of the portfolio are planned investments of the organization so they must be quantifiably measurable. Each item must be constantly measured, ranked and prioritized. Lower ranked portfolio components will obviously receive lesser attention when competing with higher ranked portfolio components.

Business Model Generation

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You’re holding a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. It’s a book for the business model generation.

Business Model Generation

Written by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation provides a canvas for defining a business model with nine building blocks: customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships and cost structure.

The pattern examples (unbundling business models, the long tail, multi-sided platforms, free as a business model, and open business models) highlight the dynamics of the business model and serve as an inspiration to refine your organization’s business model. From there, you can explore new opportunities, optimize existing structures or extend current offering.

Business Model Canvas serves as a natural extension to Kim and Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Strategy.

Organizational Strategy Reflection

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It is one thing to define an organizational strategy and quite another to deliver it.

Organizational StrategyWith your executive team, reflect on the following statements:

  • We have an action plan to rectify deficiencies in strategy definition, alignment, governance and execution
  • Senior executives and delivery teams have a shared understanding of how to achieve strategic alignment
  • Strategic goals are clear and measurable, and wide enough to remain valid for the next three years

On a scale of 1 (fully disagree) to 10 (fully agree), where do you stand?

If you rated each statement around 6 or 7, then your organization is not doing too badly. However, there are still plenty of room for improvement. Conversely, if at least one statement was rated as 5 or lower, then examine how your organizational strategy aligns (or not) with various strategic initiatives.