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High Velocity Decision-Making

In the book we talk about how organisational agility is not just about speed. Speed is desirable of-course, and an increase in velocity may well be an outcome and a benefit of becoming more agile as a business but heightened agility is really all about manoeuvrability (or speed of response)…

Neil PerkinMay 2, 2017

AgileBusiness Leadership Observations

Building Momentum for Change: Sprint Working

In Building the Agile Business, we focus on how sprint working can be a powerful driver of both rapid organisational learning and strategic adaptability. Done right it can not only create new value and be applied in the creation of new products and services, but can support far wider organisational change…

Neil PerkinApril 20, 2017

AgileBusiness Leadership Observations

Structuring for Change: The Dual Operating System

In our book, we discuss some key approaches towards structuring for digital transformation and organisational change, and one notably useful model comes from Kotter’s Accelerate, in which he describes an organisational structure model designed to enable the rapid development of new ideas and models whilst still maximising the operational efficiencies needed to…

Neil PerkinApril 11, 2017

AgileBusiness Organizational Culture Observations

Full-stack Teams and Moving Fast

There's plenty to take out from this post by VC and former product lead Sarah Tavel on lessons from scaling Pinterest and working in full-stack teams. She has a good take on the dangers of vanity metrics, and why at Pinterest they shifted from growth in MAUs as a guiding metric…

Neil PerkinApril 6, 2017

AgileBusiness Leadership Observations

Why We Need Less Management, and More Leadership

In his book Accelerate, John Kotter (who also wrote the very well known Leading Change) draws an important distinction between management and leadership. Most people use the terms interchangeably, or if there is a distinction it is usually defined in the context of hierarchy. And yet the difference between the…

Neil PerkinMarch 9, 2017

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