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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Agile is basically a philosophy that accompanies a way of working. You have to know how to be agile, flexible and decisive. Agile origin. What is agile? How does Agile architecture add value to the business? Agile architecture is based on the 360 ??customer

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Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility

The Practical Leader

There’s lots of talk about building agile organizations. Agile approaches began a few decades ago with software development. According to the Agile Alliance , “One thing that separates Agile from other approaches to software development is the focus on the people doing the work and how they work together.

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Resilience in Change: Building a Sustainable Business Model

Strategy Driven

It encompasses flexibility, agility, and the capacity to recover quickly from setbacks. This might necessitate a reevaluation of entrenched hierarchies and decision-making frameworks, fostering agility and responsiveness in the face of evolving circumstances.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. There seem to be two key reasons.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

It often leads to rigid plans and budgets. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team. Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility.

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Unlocking Digital Leadership: CIO Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

The importance of digital leadership in the modern business landscape cannot be overstated, as it catalyzes strategic decision-making, organizational agility, and long-term success. They need to have the vision to identify new opportunities and the agility to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions.

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Ripple Effect: Seven Keys to Team and Culture Development

The Practical Leader

In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Culture development is intertwined with leadership team development. How’s your team doing? Which traps have you slipped into?