Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
Praise for Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World\ "This is the next evolution of business strategy. This book gives leaders a new model of business agility that balances the need for standardized business processes to drive efficiency with the ability to adapt to marketplace and customer expectations. Hugos makes the business case for adaptability and resiliency just at a time when it is needed most."\ —John Babiarz, Group President, ARAMARK Healthcare\...
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Business AgilityBusiness agility determines whether your organi-zation will become a victim of our difficult economic times or if it will learn to reap new profits by continually responding to changing market conditions and evolving customer desires. Author and business agility practitioner Michael Hugos explains that for everything from blue jeans to fuel oil and hotel rooms to accounting services, customers are willing to pay slightly higher prices for products and services if they are responsive to their needs. This breakthrough guide is your company's how-to manual for putting this profit transformation to work. Part of the Microsoft Executive Leadership Series, Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World outlines world-class approaches every "C-level" executive can employ to achieve competitive advantages and greater profitability. This book discusses:Powerful trends shaping business and our lives in this centuryChallenges we must confront and masterPractical principles, strategies, and technologies available to address these challengesThree underlying feedback loops that drive all responsive organizationsBest ways to use technology to empower your people Two central themes for making a responsive organization happen: desire and innovationCase study examples from the author's own experience to illustrate concepts of responsiveness and techniques of agilityBusiness Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World is a succinct guide and road map for becoming more responsive, agile, and better positioned to deal with ongoing and constant change. Mykolas Rambus of Forbes Media observed, "Michael delivers a host of actionable new ideas for organizations who 'get' business agility, and an unflattering view of the future for those who don't. His fresh insights on how to win in today's turbulent marketplace are more relevant than ever."
Microsoft Executive Leadership Series: Series ForewordCh. 1 Responsiveness Trumps Efficiency 1Ch. 2 Generating Alpha 17Ch. 3 Principles of the Responsive Organization 35Ch. 4 Speed, Simplicity, and Boldness 55Ch. 5 Strategically Focused, Tactically Responsive 75Ch. 6 Thriving in a Competitive, Fast-Paced World 97Ch. 7 YaGatta Wanna 119Ch. 8 The Essence of Innovation 135App. A Executive Checklist for Monitoring Development Projects 151App. B Seven Strategic Guidelines for Designing Systems 157Index 159
