Business Strategy Execution: Lean/Agile Organization Design

Course Summary

Your business success is not merely having a goal, a direction, a vision. It is the ability to change, to create the process, the organization, the capabilities and culture, that result in performance. This course is a roadmap that will enable you to successfully execute strategy.

Business Strategy Execution is a hot topic in management today. The Conference Board's recent Survey of CEOs revealed that chief executives are so concerned about strategy execution that they rated it as both their number one and number two most challenging issue.

Why does strategy execution so often fail? Because most strategic plans are little more than a series of vertically integrated objectives. But, the problem is not objectives and it is not vertical. It is the "whole-system" and its ability to adapt and align, internally and externally in fast cycles. In other words, to be agile.

The problem is the culture and capabilities of the organization and a process to design and deploy those capabilities. This course provides that process and is based on forty years of experience improving the performance of organizations. The problem is developing new capabilities and a new culture that will enable the organization to achieve its goals. The term "Agile" implies an iterative process of experimentation, learning, adaptation to the changing environment, and alignment with other business units and support groups. This course is about creating that agility, adaptation and alignment.

Course Curriculum

Introduction to Strategy Execution - The Agile/Lean Way
3 Lessons
- Connecting Strategy, Culture & Capabilities
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- Strategy Execution: The Problem and Solution
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- The Strategy is in the System
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Defining Strategy, Culture & Capabilities
4 Lessons
- What is Strategy?
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- What is Culture?
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- What are Capabilities?
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- Adaptation and Alignment
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The Plan for Agile Strategy Execution
6 Lessons
- Myths of Strategy Execution
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- Principles of Agile Strategy Execution
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- The Agile Strategy Execution Process
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- A VERY(!) Brief Discussion of Theory
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- An Overview of Whole-System Architecture
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- A Case Study of Strategic Redesign in Health Care
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What is the Business Strategy?
4 Lessons
- Linking Business Strategy to Customer Satisfaction
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- What is Moving on the Landscape?
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- What is Our Business Model?
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- The Capability Planning Matrix
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Assessment: The Five Forms of Capital
9 Lessons
- Sustainable Wealth - the Book
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- Creating Sustainable Wealth: Assessing Your Assets and Liabilities
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- Spiritual Capital
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- Social Capital
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- Human Capital
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- Innovation Capital
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- Financial Capital
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- Assessing Your Assets and Liabilities
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- Forms of Capital Self-Assessment
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Assessment: Lean Culture
5 Lessons
- The Beginning of Lean
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- Lean Principles 1
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- Lean Principles 2
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- Lean Principles 3
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- Lean Self-Assessment
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Writing the Strategy Design Charter
2 Lessons
- The Steering Team and Design Team - Who and What
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- Writing the Design Charter
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Design Team Discovery
6 Lessons
- Design Team Introduction
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- Gathering the Facts
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- Interviewing Your Customers
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- Mapping Your Process
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- Mapping Your Value Stream
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- Designing the Work System
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Dream the Ideal Future
2 Lessons
- Dreaming the Ideal Future
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- Developing the Dream
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Design the Future System
4 Lessons
- Designing the Future Work System
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- Social System Design - Structure
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- Social System Design - Supportive Systems
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- Designing the Ideal Social System
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Deploying and Developing the Future State
4 Lessons
- The Design Presentation - Advice for the Design Team
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- The Design Presentation - Advice for the Steering Team
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- Deploying and Developing the Design
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- Agile Strategy Deployment
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Lawrence Miller

Larry Miller has forty-five years of consulting from textile mills in the South, foundries on the banks of the Monongahela River, oil refineries in Texas, and healthcare organizations in Canada. He knows very well the real-life issues of building high performing teams and changing ingrained habits among both executives and union members. The goals of self-management, lean processes and organization are easy to agree on. The challenge is in the process of changing habits, mindsets, and cultural norms. This has been his work. Author of eleven books on management and leadership and sixteen online courses in lean management and corporate culture.

"Engaging and enlightening. Larry's wealth of experience allows you to easily apply the subject matter to the real world." Neil Shaw

"Great great !! Simply phenomenal." Lewis Mushaka

"The course is insightful and practical . It empowered me on effective strategy execution in an evolving environment." Trevor Mazhindu

"The subject is very enlightening, the explanations are clear and very simple to apply in our day to day life. Thank you. The instructor was engaging and quick to the point." Maxwell Sebastian Osafo

"It is Simple, detailed and to the point. I like the humor as well. Very usefully. Thank you it keeps getting better." Abhina Ajmani

"Once again, fantastic delivery, fascinating content, and a very high level." Lucien Campbell Hopkins

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