The document outlines the importance of business agility and provides a framework for leaders to understand its significance at both organizational and personal levels. It emphasizes the ability to respond rapidly to change, alongside a growth mindset and continuous learning. Participants are encouraged to discuss ways to improve their organization's business agility.

1. Warm-up Exercise
While we wait for the presentation to start…
Turn to the person beside you and each of you share what
business agility means to you
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2. Business Agility
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3. Tim Guay, Agile Coach and Trainer
•Agile Practitioner since 2002
•PMP, CSM, CSD, CSP, PMI-ACP, ICP-ASD, etc….
•Certified to deliver ICAgile’s Business Agility Accelerator program to top management
•Sits on the ICAgile DevOps Certification Committee
•Authored multiple Lean and Agile courses
•Clients include; JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Accenture, Cisco, Intuit, Comcast, State of
Washington, and the Royal Canadian Navy ( to name a few).
•tim@agileworksinc.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/timguay/ cell: 808-206-466
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4. Objectives
Provide leaders with a broad understanding of;
What is Business Agility
Why it is vital at both the organizational and personal level
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5. What is Business Agility
Ability to respond rapidly to change
Adaptability, flexibility & balance
Encompasses entire organization
Draws from UX, Lean & Agile
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6. Why Business Agility?
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Of Course: “It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.” Deming

7. Why Business Agility?
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8. Preconditions
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 Growth Mindset
 Make value visible
 Lean systems thinking
 Everything is an experiment
 Time for innovation

9. Business Agility Strategy Wheel
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Pick 4 high priority activities in
each quadrant

10. 1. See5. Teach
2. Explore
3.Experiment
4. Learn
Business Agility Framework
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11. See
See ourselves and our customers really are
Empathy
See what our competition is up to
Look over the horizon
Look for what will trip us up
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12. See
See ourselves and our customers really are
Empathy
See what our competition is up to
Look over the horizon
Look for what will trip us up
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13. Explore
Our future state
What is our Minimal Viable Change (MVC)
How to get there
How to be more Agile and Lean
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14. Experiment
Embrace failure
Scrum, Kaizen, Lean
MVP/MVS/MVC
HDD
Innovation Ecosystem
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15. Learn
Persist or pivot
Meaningful metrics
Continuous Learning
Create knowledge
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16. Teach
Communicate knowledge
Networking
Innovation culture
Develop talent
Retrospectives
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17. Law of the Customer
•It is your customer who decides what has value.
•The entire organization must be fully aligned to…
• Discover
• And Deliver
• As fast as possible

18. Law of the Small Team
•Two pizza rule
•Empowered
•Self-Organizing
•Value Delivery focused
•Cross-functional

19. Why Personal Agility?
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 According to Denning and Brown, "The
half-life a learned skill is 5-years”
 Disruptive technologies and business
models are constantly emerging
 Business Agility requires it
Of Course: “It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.” Deming

20. Your Organization Needs You!
In your table groups discuss what can you do to improve
your organization’s business agility
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