Agile strategy & agile management

Management emphasizes immediate results especially during depression. Managers often claim to have their eyes fixed on the future, but the reality tells a different story – why is it that sales meetings always handle those deals that were never closed or the problems with clients, or the manager spends two hours presenting financial figures from the previous quarter. An organization cannot be called very creative or future-oriented, if most of the time is spent reflecting on the past. Agility must first be introduced to the way of thinking.

We are often bound by our old habits, whereas an agile mind is able to find new perspectives. Values form the basis for agility. Agility is created through open interaction that encourages involvement, and in which everyone aims for the same desired state. Agility incorporates discovering, recognizing, handling, deciding over and implementing new things. It has also to do with an organization’s capability to adjust to new situations.

Modular modeling of strategy and business activities

The Cone Advisor strategy approach differs from the traditional document-based strategy description in that the content may be constantly realigned and iterated The information model of the strategy can be modified module by module, and the model allows a visual presentation of the occurred changes. Discerning change from a written document is much more difficult. Therefore, strategic modeling is practically organic to an agile strategy process. Strategy written out in a document is useless for constant iteration of strategy, in which it is necessary to quickly identify cause-effect relationships and entities.

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Starting an era of strategic agility?

Agile strategy is diversely present in the day-to-day operation of an organization and everyone experiences the challenges set by agility in different ways and at different intensity. To address this issue, Cone Advisor presents an agile strategy analysis to chart the demands, benefits and action recommendations of agile strategy. A new era has begun.

There is a real need for more agile strategy development. A new tool to accomplish this is now available: a work process based on modeling – Cone Made software. Naturally the first step in implementing agile strategy is to chart the present situation of a company. The starting point of this analysis is the evaluation of the operating environment and market dynamics, as well as the company’s strategic management system. The present situation is then compared to the target situation and an assessment is made on the benefits of agile strategy and the recommendations for action. Finally, this analysis is summarized and presented to the company management.

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