Strategy – Stonivale

Agile incentives 1 – the CEO

This is the first in a series on agile incentives. In it I will take a number of key roles within an organisation, outline the high-level incentives that person has, and then discuss how the adoption of agile aligns with those incentives.

Today I’m going to start right at the ‘top’ of the organisation: the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

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Best book for agile businesses

A question appeared on Quora asking for the must read book on agile for businesses. Here’s my answer:

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Looking after your organisation’s strategic capabilities

Many organisations spend far too much time and effort on activities that can be done by one of a thousand organisations (e.g. Payroll, Data centres, and so on) while neglecting the very thing that makes them special. Here’s my answer on how an organisation can look after its strategic capabilities:

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