The following blog posts on Strategy Deployment are organised into something slightly more structured than just the tag. It might even be a book structure!
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1. The Need
The Challenge
- Why Strategy Deployment? Here Are Three Great Reasons
- In the Lap of the Agile Gods
- The Curious Case Of The Einstellung Effect And Agile
- Time Capsules and Transformations
- Are We Tabby Cats Trying To Emulate Cheetahs?
Implications for Agile
- How Do I Know If Agile Is Working?
- The Provocative Pluralism of Strategic Agility
- The Agile Transformation Conundrum
- A Simple Resolution to the Agile Transformation Conundrum
- Good Agile/Bad Agile: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Strategy Deployment and the Agile Industrial Complex
- Agility is a Strategy, Agile is a Tactic
2. Strategy Deployment
The Intent
- Strategy Deployment and Directed Opportunism
- Alignment and Autonomy in Strategy Deployment
- Strategy Deployment and Leader-Leader
- More on Leader-Leader and Autonomy-Alignment
- Strategy Deployment and Playing to Win
The Approach
- What is Strategy Deployment?
- Two Big Improvements To A Strategy Deployment Definition
- Continuous Strategy is the new Strategy Deployment
- The Simple Synergy of Strategy Deployment and Strategy Development
- A Strategy Deployment Diagram
- A Strategy Deployment Cadence
- Tensegrity as a Fascinating Metaphor For Strategy Deployment
The Work
- What is Catchball?
- Dynamics of Strategy Deployment
- Strategy Deployment as Organisational Improv
- How to Ensure Ebb and Flow of Strategy Deployment
- What is Backbriefing?
- Backbriefing and the Curse of Knowledge
- Strategy Deployment and Team of Teams
3. The TASTE X-Matrix
True North
- What is a True North?
- True North Revisited – Why It’s More Than A Statement
- A Powerful True North Requires A Good AIM
- Strategy Deployment and Idealised Design
- Is The Crux At The Heart Of Strategy Deployment?
Aspirations
Strategies
- Strategy Deployment and the Strategy Safari
- Deploying Strategies as Choices
- Strategies as Enabling Constraints
- Three Agile Strategies That Will Make A Strong Impact
- Strategy Deployment and Developer Experience
- Strategy Deployment and Flow Engineering
- Strategy Deployment and Estuarine Mapping
Tactics
- Failure Is Not An Option
- Curiosity Theory and the Principle of Optimal Knowledge
- A3 Templates for Backbriefing and Experimenting
- The Hidden X-Matrix Teams That Make It More Tasty
- A Terrific Typology of Transformation Tactics
- Two Triads for the Terrific Typology of Transformation Tactics
- How to Distinguish Between Strategies and Tactics
Evidence
Correlations
- The Messy Coherence of X-Matrix Correlations
- The Sankey Diagram As A Simple Addition To The X-Matrix
- TASTE Impacts, Outcomes and Outputs
- Introducing the Order of the X-Matrix
- The Ultimate X-Matrix For Your Agile Transformation Is Here
4. Implementation
Getting Started
- The Revolutionary Six Strategy Deployment Steps to Effective Change
- How To Start with the X-Matrix as a Curiosity Framework
- Addressing X-Matrix Concerns From These Three Risky Reasons
- Three Quick Tips for Better X-Matrix Communication
- The Most Important X-Matrix Lessons I Have Learned
- Facilitating an X-Matrix Workshop
- How Rally Does… Strategy Deployment
- How Rally Does… Annual and Quarterly Planning
Other Frameworks
- Comparing Strategy Alignment Frameworks
- Strategy Deployment and OKRs
- Combining OKRs and the X-Matrix – The Important Distinction To Know
- Strategy Deployment and Agendashift
- Strategy Deployment and the Four Disciplines of Execution
- Blending Agendashift and the Four Disciplines of Execution
- Strategy Deployment and Spotify Rhythm
- Strategy Deployment, the X-Matrix and Kanban Thinking
- Kanban Deployment with the X-Matrix
- Strategy Deployment and Fitness for Purpose
- Strategy Deployment and Impact Mapping
- Strategy Deployment and SAFe
- How to Use Hexis for Powerful Strategy Deployment
References
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