1st Edition
Make Your Business Agile A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management and Adapting to the ‘New Normal’
Business Agility is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to ‘get business agile’ – but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.
How can conventional organisations succeed in this transformation?
In this book, project and change management expert Peter Taylor walks you through the change process step by step, providing a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. He guides you towards a decentralised management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
By reducing processes, adjusting the governance and believing in ‘the power of the people’ to deliver simple success in a time of complex demand, the guidance in this book will help any manager get Business Agile.
Introduction by Evan Leybourn
Introduction by Peter Taylor
1. It’s A Vuca World Out There
2. The Rise Of Business Agility
3. Recognising That You Are In A Business Agile World
4. Is It Possible To Un-Vuca The Vuca World?
5. Collaboration
6. Teaming
7. Agile Project Management
8. A Critical 21st Century Skill For All
9. Meeting Complexity With Simplicity
10. How Can You Prepare For A Business Agile Existence?
11. Three Final Thoughts
Biography
Peter Taylor is a Project Management Expert, Speaker, Author and Consultant. He is also a change expert who has built and led five global PMOs across several industries and has advised many other organisations in transformation strategy. He is the author of the Amazon number 1 bestselling project management book The Lazy Project Manager, along with many other books on project leadership, project marketing, project challenges and executive sponsorship. In the last few years, he has delivered over 450 lectures around the world, in over 25 countries.
