Friday, April 19, 2019

Enterprise Business Agility - Brad Bennett (EPIC Agile)

Business Agility

Business Agility refers to the ability of businesses to rapidly respond and adapt to market changes (both internally and externally) -- respond flexibly and rapidly to changing customer demands, the ability to react to emerging competitors, shifts in market conditions, and rapid adaption to technology trends. All of this without compromising on quality, lead the change in a cost-effective way, and still be continuously holding competitive advantage (vis-a-vis its competitors).

This Enterprise Business Agility model (certified by ICAgile) comprises the following 7 pillars.  


  • Customer Centricity / customer seat at the table
  • a. Do you know who your customer is?
    b. Are you engaging your customer (understand requirements and get their feedback early)?
    c. Do you engage them regularly?
    d. Do you change your roadmap based on the feedback of the customer?

    Customer Seat at the Table is the same as Stephen Dennings' Customer Centricity - placing the customer at the center of solutioning.

  • Lean Portfolio Management
  • a. Do you have the ability to refresh the portfolio so all your best ideas are on the top?
    b. And Bad ideas never get in?

    Lean Portfolio Management is applying lean thinking to managing enterprise (agilityhealthradar.com), program and product portfolios to streamline high-value work. This ensures delivering most-high value work is delivered first, while limiting WIP, limiting interruptions, and aligning work to organization's intended outcomes and team capacity. 

  • Organizational Design and Structure
  • a. Do you have the ability to be able to redesign your organization based upon the missions and the high priority initiatives that happen?

  • Delivery Frameworks & Agile Mindset
  • a. Have you built multiple delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.)?
    b. Do you know what framework you are using?
    c. How do you build an internal culture and a learning mindset within the organization?

  • Leadership and Culture
  • a. Have your leaders gone on the Agile journey?
    b. Are they taking this on?
    c. Are they embracing in?

  • Make it Stick (sustaining the change)
  • a. Do you have a Talent acquisition strategy in an Agile world?
    b. Do you have the Capability growthmap for your employees?
    c. PR & Comms around Agile happening (within and outside of the organization)?

  • Adaptive Technology

  • a. Do you have tech infrastructure in place to enable business agility?



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