TY - BOOK AU - Orvos, John TI - Achieving business agility: strategies for becoming pivot ready in a digital world SN - 9781484276006 U1 - 658.4012 ORV-J PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Apress Media KW - Strategic planning KW - Business enterprises--Technological innovations KW - Business planning KW - Success in business KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Project management KW - Software engineering N1 - Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear, actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset. Achieving Business Agility offers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to execute these strategies effectively. Whether you are a delivery executive, a change advocate, a consultant, a business leader, or a newcomer to agile, you will learn clear actions from a practical, business-oriented perspective that is vital to effect change and bring agile into your business. The book is structured in three sections. The first provides a deep understanding of each of the four strategies. The second section tells the story of a company that applied these strategies through the eyes of several key players. The last team helps you get started using what you learned in your company. What You'll Learn: Get the attention of your executives by alerting them to a company problem that can impact them personally and create a sense of urgency to address it. Collaborate with your executives in a way that gets them to open up and see how their operating model is a contributing cause to the company's problem. Demonstrate how your executives can benefit from a new agile business operating model and address the company problem. Create a reinforcement structure on a larger scale to establish elegance as the new standard operating model in your organization. ER -