UPGRADE TO AGILE MANAGEMENT MINDSET REQUIRED

Why agile business management?

• Our world accelerates
  
• Traditional management cannot cope
  
• Planning must be dynamic
  
• Agility sustains business
  

Four upgrades to management mindset required

1. Hierarchy to ecosystem
   
2. Scorecards to single goal
   
3. Process to constraints
   
4. Top-down planning to PEC cycles
   

Upgrade mindset from hierarchy to ecosystem

• Business is an ecosystem
  
• Also, a social system (community)
  
• Business is self-organizing
  
• Purpose of management is business sustainability
  

Upgrade  mindset from scorecards to single goal

• Single goal defines the business ecosystem
  
• Goal requires necessary conditions
  

Upgrade mindset from process to constraint

• Constraint hinders achieving the goal
  
• Root cause behind a network of symptoms
  
• Improving everything wastes time and money
  
• Constraint focused management with logic trees
  

Upgrade mindset from top-down to PEC cycles

• Traditional management too slow to resolve constraints
  
• Agility is spinning PEC cycle (Plan-Execute-Check)
  
• Agile-ready operational plans address constraints and obstacles
  
• Faultless execution based on rock solid reliability and quick reviews
  
• Leadership focusses all on the goal, spins PEC cycles and coaches