“The shortest path between two points is a straight line” has been said so many times that it borders on cliché. It’s a true statement, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the best approach when it comes to change. How many times have you tried to change something where you were able to get there by a straight path? In […]
Have you ever made a plan and something happened that changed the course of things in your life? Well if your answer is no, you probably aren’t a human. 🙂 In this blog post I will be outlining the importance of creating plans while accepting change. It is the natural law of life for things to change, adapt, and evolve. […]
I am very excited to introduce Moriah to our Agile4Life community. Moriah and I met collaborating on the Agile transformation at H&R Block. I was leaning into Agile while leading the DevOps transformation which relies on many Agile principles. Moriah is as passionate about Agile as anyone I’ve ever met. She had a day job as the ScrumMaster for a […]
My dad got his master plumber license when I was a kid because even though he worked as an industrial engineer, he needed it because there’s a lot of plumbing that goes into automotive paint finishing systems. Maybe that’s when he picked up the phrase “a plumber’s got the leakiest faucets.” If you’re not familiar, the idea is, just because […]
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to lead several large-scale organizational changes. It’s hard. Let’s be honest. With the exception of a few change-oriented people that most of us don’t understand, we tend to be inclined toward inertia not progress. If you’re old enough, you might remember the Stuart Smalley SNL skits “Daily Affirmations.” Smalley would go on and […]
If you read the about section on the blog then you already know that I am a geek at heart. I’ve spent more than 20 years in the software development space which is on a perpetual quest to get more efficient at pushing new products and features out the door. When I first got started large projects involved a tremendous […]
Without an understanding of Business Agility it makes it difficult for organzations to adapt and change to the world around us.
In today’s podcast we’re going to be talking about Business Agility as a pivitol piece in our successes. We discuss the definition of Business Agility as found in this Wikipedia post, defined below, and how we can use this in our everyday life.
Business agility refers to rapid, continuous, and systematic evolutionary adaptation and entrepreneurial innovation directed at gaining and maintaining competitive advantage.[1] Business agility can be sustained by maintaining and adapting the goods and services offered to meet with customer demands, adjusting to the marketplace changes in a business environment, and taking advantage of available human resources.[2] In a business context, agility is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways. An extension of this concept is the agile enterprise, which refers to an organization that uses key principles of complex adaptive systems and complexity science to achieve success.[3] Business agility is the outcome of organizational intelligence.
Thank you for listening,
Aaron and Moriah
