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      Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization

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      Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization
      ByBarry Cross
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 8 May 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Productivity Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b22133
      Pages 199
      eBook ISBN 9781315198750
      Subjects Engineering & Technology
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      Cross, B. (2017). Simple: Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization (1st ed.). Productivity Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b22133

      ABSTRACT

      The parameters of competition in business today are changing -- big does not necessarily beat small anymore; fast is beating slow. Agility, speed, and flexibility are the key elements of a successful strategy and execution in the corporate world as wells as in government agencies, health care, and education..

      How well will your firm execute its strategy? What barriers exist that inhibit your execution? Are you keeping one eye on tomorrow’s customers, while you manage those of today? These are all key questions as we strive to deliver value on an ongoing basis.

      Simple: Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization is about agility and simplicity, in which achieving simplicity comes from a focus on the customer. Agility begins with planning, and leadership teams must develop decent vision. Generally, leaders know what they want to do, but many organizations break down, however, I when trying to implement the action plan. With over 25 years of industry, teaching, and consulting experience, the author illustrates how organizations can:

      • Recognize who their true customers are, and appreciate what those customers want
      • Begin to eliminate the products, services, processes and ‘work’ that gets in the way of delivering value to those customers
      • Focus people and processes towards value creation, even in what are perceived as non-customer centric operations
      • Avoid brand confusion and the ‘all things to all people’ mentality

      The complexities of managing in today’s world both obscures decision making and layers on challenges that bog an organization down, preventing leadership from understanding what their customers want.

      By understanding who those customers are, and what they want, leaders can focus innovation strategy and projects in ways that deliver sustainable value. Even in not-for-profit and government agencies, executing in an aligned organization can become the profitable standard business process.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Who Is Your Customer?

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Complexity and the Barriers to Agility

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Simple Strategy and Building a Vision

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Lean and Enabling Agility

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Execution and the Operating Plan

      chapter 6|23 pages

      Lean Innovation

      chapter 7|16 pages

      Communication and Selling the Plan

      chapter 8|22 pages

      Agile Culture

      chapter 9|6 pages

      Simple Closure

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