Nine Surprising Strategy Deployment Books with Powerful Lessons
This post is a list of recommended books that have influenced my thinking on Strategy Deployment over the years, with links to related posts.
Strategy Deployment and Team of Teams
This post is about Strategy Deployment and the book Team of Teams – another great book which has nothing to do with Lean or Agile explicitly but contains some great, relevant stories and lessons.
3 Amazing Reasons Your Agile Transformation May Go South
What important lessons can we learn from the story of Scott and Amundson’s race to the South Pole that we can apply to an Agile Transformation?
Strategy Deployment and Idealised Design
This post introduces Idealised Design, as described in the book Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow’s Crisis…Today by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson and Herber J. Addison, and explores how it relates to Strategy Deployment. The post is a continuation of the series on Strategy Deployment And other approaches. What is Idealised Design? The basic premise of Idealised Design is …
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 …
Blending Agendashift and the Four Disciplines of Execution
I’ve blogged about my thoughts on Strategy Deployment and Agendashift (as well as how to use Agendashift with the X-Matrix) some time ago, and more recently I wrote about Strategy Deployment and the Four Disciplines of Execution. Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to combine the two models, and this post will give a high level overview …
Strategy Deployment and the Four Disciplines of Execution
This is another post comparing my views on Strategy Deployment and other approaches. This time the Four Disciplines of Execution (or 4DX), described in the book of the same name. I’d heard about 4DX from a few people over the last years; notably Hakan Forss and Matt Wynne. I finally got around to reading the book, found it immediately useful, …
Strategy Deployment and the Agile Industrial Complex
There has been much debate online, and in particular on Twitter recently, about the imposition of Agile and the Agile Industrial Complex. See Ron Jeffries’ recent blog for more context. It’s an important topic. I have seen plenty of imposed Agile which I would call Incoherent Agile. Agile processes imposed as Best Practice without any coherence or alignment with the …
How to use Agendashift with the X-Matrix
I first blogged about my early thoughts on Strategy Deployment and Agendashift nearly two years ago after some early experiments with Mike Burrows’ approach. Since then I’ve learned more, become an Agendashift partner, and co-taught a couple of “Lean-Agile Strategy Days” with Mike in June and October last year. More recently I used some of the elements of Agendashift during an …