Directing the Agile Organisation - A lean approach to business management

Improve business adaptability, staff engagement, and quality for the benefit of your customers

Agile business management is a series of concepts and processes for the day-to-day management of an organization. As an Agile manager, you need to understand, embody, and encourage these concepts. By embracing and shaping change within your organization, you can take advantage of new opportunities and outperform your competition.

Using a combination of first-hand research and in-depth case studies, Directing the Agile Organisation offers a fresh approach to business management, applying Agile processes pioneered in the IT and manufacturing industries.

Changing the way you and your business operate

• Of interest to managers and senior executives leading organizations that need to be flexible and adaptable.
• Improve business processes to remain competitive in today's market.
• Enables better staff engagement and more dynamic customer relationships.
• Prevent projects from being hampered by out-of-date requirements.

Contents

1. You, the Agile Manager
2. Integrated Customer Engagement
3. The Structure of an Agile Organization
4. Work, the Agile Way
5. The Agile Budget
6. Reflection, Retrospectives, and Kaizen
7. The Shape of Things to Come