Continuous Strategy is the new Strategy Deployment
I’ve been trying to come up with a better name for Strategy Deployment for a long time. One that has stuck with me recently is Continuous Strategy.
Time Capsules and Transformations
Time capsules can be a metaphor for transformation; a prediction of what we think people should know in the future, based on what we know today.
Backbriefing and the Curse of Knowledge
In a previous post on backbriefing, I described it as “a process with which people can check their understanding of the intent of their work and whether their plans will meet that intent”. On reflection, I realised I missed an important element. It is also leadership checking whether they have described their intent with enough clarity. Put another way, backbriefing …
Curiosity Theory and the Principle of Optimum Knowledge
When I talk about curiosity I usually talk about experimentation and the need for failure. When teaching experimentation with games such as Eleusis Expeditious, I inevitably end up talking about the Information Theory curve. I learned about Information Theory from Don Reinertsen in his book Principles of Product Development Flow – specifically Principle V4: “The Principle of Optimum Failure Rate. …
What is a True North?
The True North is the first element of my TASTE model and is in the middle of my X-Matrix template. It is the central piece which holds the other elements together. On the X-Matrix I define the True North as: The orientation which informs what we should do. That is a bit abstract and jargony, so lets unpack it a …
What is Backbriefing?
I talk about Backbriefing a lot in conference presentations and will have mentioned it in a number of blog posts. In particular I put together a Backbriefing A3. However, I don’t think I’ve ever really described what I mean by backbriefing or what it involves. Time to rectify that. Background I first learned about backbriefing in Stephen Bungay’s book The …
Strategy as Enabling Constraints
In one of my recent presentations, I talk about the 3 Cs of “Imposing” Agile; Coherence, Constraints and Curiosity. That idea, along with some of the content made it into a whitepaper I wrote last year. A key part of that, and one of the 3 Cs, is the idea of using constraints, and specifically of strategy as a form …
Strategy Deployment and SAFe
This is a slightly different variation on my series of posts comparing Strategy Deployment and other approaches. SAFe is definitely not a form of Strategy Deployment, but it does include references to strategy, so this post is more an exploration of how SAFe could work alongside Strategy Deployment. First, lets get the usual caveats out of the way. I’m not …
Comparing Strategy Alignment Frameworks
Mattias Skarin has recently posted a comparison of three strategy alignment frameworks – OKRs, Spotify Rhythm and Art of Action Strategy Briefing. I have already posted about these approaches in the past (OKRs, Spotify Rhythm, Directed Opportunism), as well as others, and I liked the way Mattias compared them side by side. In this post I want to add another …
Option Orientation with Reverse Wardley Mapping
At the start of the year Mike Burrows posted about an idea he called Reverse Wardley, with some background to where it came from. As one of the sources of the idea I thought I should say some more about my thinking that led to it. Mike has also called the approach Option Visbility, and in writing this post I am …