ASE High Level Overview

Agile Strategy Execution

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Is Strategy Execution a Problem?

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What’sWorse:

Here’sSomeFacts:

Is Strategy Execution a Problem?

n  According to Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workforce Research involving more than 3,000 randomly selected workers:

n  70% report that they are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” about their job

n  Only 41% of employees “feel they know what their company stands for and what makes its brand different from its competitors.” For individual contributors, the figure falls to 37%.

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So:StrengtheningStrategyExecu0onmustbeapriority

What’sEvenMoreofanIssue:


Five Myths About Strategy Execution

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Execution Equals Alignment

Execution Means Sticking to the Plan

Communications Equals Understanding

Performance Culture Drives Execution

Execution Should be Driven Top-Down

Source: Sull, Homkes and Sull, HBR March,2015


Strategy Execution Must Become more Agile!

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Aligned • Goals, strategy and initiatives are linked and coordinated. • Processes exist to coordinate/integrate organization & department

operating plans vertically & horizontally. • Run-the-business activities must cascade from linked goals, strategy and

initiatives.

Accountable • All employees have direct line of sight to goals and strategy and can see the

interconnectedness as well as their role and contribution. • Culture is data & outcome driven with team buy-in & ownership. • Progress to expected plan outcomes is regularly measured & reported.

Responsive • Governance processes support ongoing adaptation/realignment to the

changing internal and external landscapes. • Cross-department objectives, actions and metrics are managed real-time

with frequent discussion and decision making. • Performance measurement transparency with common definitions of all

measurements and analytical processes


What makes Agile Strategy Execution ‘Agile’?

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n  Adherence to a set of themes that integrate meaningful Agile Concepts with strategy execution Best Practices. n  Focus on results (i.e. metrics, targets and undesirable variance thresholds) with the

ability to and drive course corrections when results deviate from expected tolerances.

n  Sustainable self-organizing cross-functional teams built around projects, programs, Run-the-Business activities & process improvement work efforts.

n  Building through incremental improvements with ‘Backlog’ as a place to capture project tracks or areas of work outside the immediate ‘need’ and or scope creep specifications.

n  Continuous delivery of value (i.e. actionable intelligence) based on knowledge transfer, a continuous improvement learning culture and a bias for action.

n  Commitment to innovation via responding, adjusting, testing, evolving and making changes continuously with Scrum as a mechanism for getting things done.

n  Transparency and a single-source-of-truth for all information seeded from disparate data sources.

n  Valuing individuals and collaboration with a focus on governing from the middle based on direction from the top - especially cross-functional and even cross-enterprise (i.e. with customers, suppliers, partners, and the contingent workforce).


What Does an Organization Look Like that Executes Strategy with Agility?

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What are the Core Values of an Agile Organization?

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Revolutionizing the HOW!

n  Inclusive and can be used with all strategy ‘Best Practices’ tools and techniques in place in organizations today.

n  Strict in intent, yet flexible in delivery style.

n  Success can be measured, showing before and after results.

n  Each dimension can be worked separately or together, in whatever order is best for the organization.

Agile Strategy Execution Framework Defined

Benefits of Using an Agile Strategy Execution Framework

Agile Strategy Execution Framework Summary

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Agile Strategy Execution Value

ü  Provides a framework and taxonomy for the measuring and better communicating of organizational strategy execution processes.

ü  Open and transparent, which enables inclusion of all currently deployed current methodologies, tools & processes with space to add new and innovative ‘Best Practices.’

ü  Maturity model enables easy assessment and benchmarking of current organization strategy execution maturity and a mechanism to track ongoing improvements.

ü  Accommodates aligned & accountable digital processes for responsive decision making.

ü  Seamless tie-ins to current agile portfolio/project processes & practices.

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