Focused Fast Flexible Creating Agility Advantage In A Vuca World

Author : Nick Horney,Tom O'Shea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941870198

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Focused, Fast and Flexible by Nick Horney,Tom O'Shea Pdf

As a business leader and strategist it falls to you to make sense of this complicated and turbulent world. You need to respond better and faster than ever before by using new tools and constructs that create higher value, more engagement, and greater longevity for your enterprise. But how are you going to accomplish this? The clear answer is that you and your organization must become agile-focused, fast, and flexible-where the alignment of people, processes, and technology continuously adapt to changing conditions. This capability will enable you to continually anticipate, monitor, and adjust to trends and the new dynamics, so you and your enterprise not only survive but thrive. Authors Nick Horney and Tom O'Shea offer you an approach developed in the course of more than fifteen years of study working with dozens of organizations and thousands of leaders. This research-based "next practice" model frames the essential drivers of organizational agility, identifies the processes that enable each driver, and clarifies the domains and potential outcomes of a serious effort to become agile.

Author : Nick Horney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Managerial economics
ISBN : 1940000009

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Focused, Fast & Flexible: Creating Agility Advantage in a VUCA World by Nick Horney Pdf

Author : Nicholas Horney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1957600063

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VUCA Masters by Nicholas Horney Pdf

Author : Bülent Akkaya,Matthew Waritay Guah,Kittisak Jermsittiparsert,Helena Bulinska-Stangrecka,Yeşim Kaya Koçyiğit
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802623277

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Agile Management and VUCA-RR by Bülent Akkaya,Matthew Waritay Guah,Kittisak Jermsittiparsert,Helena Bulinska-Stangrecka,Yeşim Kaya Koçyiğit Pdf

Agile Management and VUCA-RR provides cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and expert insight into the advancing technologies and new strategies being used in businesses settings, as well as for administrative and leadership roles in organizations.

Author : Sanjay Dhir,Sushil
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811089268

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Flexible Strategies in VUCA Markets by Sanjay Dhir,Sushil Pdf

This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries. It serves as a valuable reference resource in the area of VUCA markets. An increase in the levels and types of uncertainty has important implications potentially for the durability of a company’s advantages, the way firms learn and adapt, approaches for managing innovation and knowledge, and the attractiveness of different strategies and organizational models. In today’s world, strategic flexibility in VUCA is essential for business leaders to sustain market advantage and attain a clear vision amid the chaos. Business leaders who stay focused and are aware of external volatility as the prevalent characteristic are successful, while those who are not flexible in this VUCA world and lock themselves into fixed positions lose out. The book includes empirical and conceptual research papers along with case studies and models discussing strategies for emerging markets in volatile and uncertain environments. It also covers a variety of issues, including innovation, people and processes, financial management, and leadership and strategies in VUCA markets. Apart from research fraternity and academia, the contents of the book will be useful for practitioners as well as industry watchers.

Author : Elçi, Alev,Beith, Linda L.,Elçi, Atilla
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522584773

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Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning by Elçi, Alev,Beith, Linda L.,Elçi, Atilla Pdf

Faculty development is currently practiced in a variety of approaches by individuals, committees, and centers of excellence. More research is needed to draw better benefit from these approaches in the impending digital world by taking advantage of digitally enabled teaching and learning. The Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning offers holistic and multidisciplinary approaches to enhancing faculty effectiveness in teaching, boosting motivation, extending knowledge, expanding teaching behaviors, and disseminating skills in digital higher education settings. Featuring a broad range of topics such as faculty learning communities (FLCs), virtual learning environments, and professional development, this book is ideal for educators, educational technologists, curriculum developers, higher education staff, school administrators, principals, academicians, practitioners, and graduate students.

Author : Nicholas Horney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1957600098

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VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide by Nicholas Horney Pdf

VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.

Author : Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D.
Publisher : BAI Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736186728

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VUCA Masters by Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D. Pdf

VUCA Masters comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.

Author : Amanda Setili
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118836385

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The Agility Advantage by Amanda Setili Pdf

How to win market leadership in a fast-changing world In the past, companies could pick a strategy and stick with it, maintaining a competitive edge for years. But today, companies surge ahead, fall behind, or even disappear in mere months. If you and your company are going to thrive for the long run, you need to continuously evolve, change, and stay a step ahead of your competition. The ability to see and capitalize on new opportunities is the cornerstone of agility. Successful technology-based firms like Google, Tesla, and Amazon have all mastered agility within their core business practices, but companies in any sector can—and must—learn to spot new opportunities and make the right choices about what to invest in, what to change, and what to abandon. The Agility Advantage first shows how to identify those aspects of your business where agility is most crucial—where the business environment is changing fast—and which elements have the greatest impact on the customer’s decision to buy. Amanda Setili then shows how to master the three components of agility: Market agility: Gain ideas from your most demanding and forward-thinking customers and from outside your industry. Engage, observe, and mix with customers to identify the opportunities created by their changing demands. Decision agility: Anticipate the changes that may affect you and turn even troubling trends into opportunities. Design your strategy to maximize learning and to manage risk. Generate diverse alternatives and make fast, fact-based decisions about which to pursue. Execution agility: Build new capabilities, shed what doesn’t fit, and take the first steps in a new direction. Experiment, then reinforce and build on what works. Enlist and inspire your organization around a compelling purpose and grant employees the autonomy and resources to continuously adapt and adjust course. The future will present more opportunities but narrower windows to capture them. With a wealth of valuable information and practical strategies, The Agility Advantage is essential reading to help any organization adapt and thrive—both today and tomorrow.

Author : Martins, Carlos,Rodrigues, Paula
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799818458

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Competitive Drivers for Improving Future Business Performance by Martins, Carlos,Rodrigues, Paula Pdf

The globalized economy, dominated by the diffusion of innovation and social, political, and economic changes, allows people and knowledge to flow without knowing what lies ahead. As new economies emerge and technologies impose significant changes, the internationalization of markets and industries has made defining its delimitation more difficult. Competitive Drivers for Improving Future Business Performance is a conceptualized reference source that discusses the use of digital skills to manage change in volatile contexts and provides fundamental understanding of competitive advantage to guarantee superior performances. To assure this level of performance, a set of choices (drivers) must be created ensuring operational efficiency, innovative products, customer knowledge-base, and focused branding. Featuring research on topics such as consumer experience, strategic leadership, and flexible technologies, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, academicians, consulting professionals, researchers, industry professionals, and students seeking coverage on how to improve competitive performance in an era of uncertainty.

Author : Richard S. Citrin,Alan Weiss
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631573743

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The Resilience Advantage by Richard S. Citrin,Alan Weiss Pdf

Imagine if we stopped trying to “manage” the stress in our workplaces and personal lives. What if we recognized, instead, that the challenges we face every day could actually make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We wouldn’t feel victimized by the stress in our lives; with a change in how we view these challenges, we become capable of resolving them and winning the day. Global businesses, governments, and communities are profoundly changing their approaches to adversity and challenges. The Resilience Advantage reveals the techniques and methodology we all can apply in our workplaces and homes. Filled with professional and personal stories, pragmatic research, powerful case studies, and practical actionable tools, this book IS the formula to help each of us turn our challenges into our Resilience Advantage.

Author : Pamela Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351862400

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Agility Shift by Pamela Meyer Pdf

As contrary as it sounds, "planning" -- as we traditionally understand the term--can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geo-political tensions, as well as internal political upheaval within U.S. and global governments, derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their product or release date; your team cannot meet the pace of innovations in your market niche, leaving you sidelined. There are myriad ways in the current business environment for a company's well-considered business plans to go awry. Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice. Despite most leaders' approaches, "Agility is not simply accelerated planning." Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.

Author : Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D.
Publisher : BAI Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736186744

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VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide by Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D. Pdf

VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.

Author : Ann Deaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692074945

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Vuca Tools for a Vuca World by Ann Deaton Pdf

Relentless change is a reality. VUCA, an acronym for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, has created challenges for all of us. How do we rise to the challenge? VUCA Tools for a VUCA World off ers four powerful approaches--Values, Us, Curiosity, and Aspirations--that will empower leaders and followers alike. Th roughout this business fable, leaders access their values, strengthen their connections with others, lean into their curiosity, and realize their aspirations to be better. As the team members learn and relearn key teamwork skills, they grow their ability to communicate, coach, and hold one another accountable. Th eir goal, like the goal of leaders everywhere, is sustainable success. What will you do in the face of VUCA? VUCA Tools for a VUCA World off ers powerful possibilities and role models to ensure you aren't in it alone.

Author : Oliver Mack,Anshuman Khare,Andreas Krämer,Thomas Burgartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319168890

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Managing in a VUCA World by Oliver Mack,Anshuman Khare,Andreas Krämer,Thomas Burgartz Pdf

This book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations. The premises of VUCA can shape all aspects of an organization. To cover all areas, the book is divided into six sections. Section 1 acts as an introduction to VUCA and complexity. It reviews ways to manage complexity, while providing examples for tools and approaches that can be applied. The main focus of Section 2 is on leadership, strategy and planning. The chapters in this section create new approaches to handle VUCA environments pertaining to these areas including using the Tetralemma logics, tools from systemic structural constellation (SySt) approach of psychotherapy and organizational development, to provide new ideas for the management of large strategic programs in organizations. Section 3 considers how marketing and sales are affected by VUCA, from social media’s influence to customer value management. Operations and cost management are highlighted in Section 4. This section covers VUCA challenges within global supply chains and decision-oriented controlling. In Section 5 organizational structure and process management are showcased, while Section 6 is dedicated to addressing the effects of VUCA in IT, technology and data management. The VUCA forces present businesses with the need to move from linear modes of thought to problem solving with synthetic and simultaneous thinking. This book should help to provide some starting points and ideas to deal with the next era. It should not be understood as the end of the road, but as the beginning of a journey exploring and developing new concepts for a new way of management.