Agile & learning organisations
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Learning from failure: A checklist to improve how you learn
Do you learn from failure? Wouldn’t it be better to learn, before they fail? This article is about how to better learn from your projects, and be better at implementing those “Lessons learnt”. It includes a checklist that a client found really...Organisational agility requires two preceding capabilities
Many organisations want to be agile. The problem is that agility requires two earlier steps. You can have an agile organisation, but if that agility is never exploited, then it is a wasted resource. Organisational agility is in fact a three-part problem (and...Managing amidst uncertainty: How to positively affect shareholder return
What sort of decisions about the crisis improved, or worsened, shareholder value? It is useful to look back at the types of responses and decisions various organisations had to the credit crisis, and their speed, to see if there are patterns that influence...Rigorous, intellectually honest, learning about our strategy
Isn’t that a great phrase, “Rigorous, intellectually honest, learning”.The phrase comes from a book called Nail it, Scale it by Paul Ahlstrom and Nathan Furr. The book is designed for entrepreneurs who are developing a proposition for a market. The...Managing strategy as a learning process
The Benefits managing Strategy as a Learning Process If, like many organisations, you want a more responsive and agile organisation that is sensitive to the changing demands of your environment, then the answer lies in the way your strategy and plans are managed: Your...Deliberate or Emergent strategy: when to choose either or both
Deliberate or Emergent strategy: when considering strategy, planning and implementation, one choice is whether to have a strategy and a strategy management process, that is deliberate or emergent. There are, broadly, two ways to look at your strategy process:...Measurement and target cultures: the problem and solutions
If you are in an organisation that has too many measures and targets, or relies on measures and targets to communicate your strategy and intention, then read on. This will help you diagnose the problem and point to some solutions. Watch the video and you can look at...
