1. The document discusses running an agile Fortune 500 company with 200 divisions across 40 countries and 25,000 employees. 2. It proposes evaluating each division and product using a portfolio-trend matrix to analyze investments, revenues, growth rates, and correlations to develop strategic plans. 3. Key aspects of agile decision making discussed include open ideation, critical thinking, consensus-based voting, mediation of disagreements, and focusing on optimal solutions rather than compromises.

1. “Running an Agile Fortune 500 Company”
Aditya Yadav, aditya.yadav@gmail.com
in.linkedin.com/in/adityayadav76
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*A Typical Global Company
*Fortune 500/1000
*200 Divisions
*40 Countries
*25000 Employees

3. @ Acme Inc.
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*Original Question “How do we manage our
Division/Product… Strategies?”
*The Correct Question - “The Growth-Share
Matrix has been heavily criticized. Allow me to
show you a strategy framework that has its
roots in Data Science and uses Trends,
Projections and a Portfolio Approach to
Strategic Management of Products.”

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1. Divide your current (i) Investments and (ii) Revenues into
Quartiles. (Per Product/Division…)
2. Arrange current and future positions on the Growth
Matrix. And connect them with arrows w/ #years-of-
transition on them. Add x-y axes co-ordinates to get score
for current and future product position.
3. Use Linear Interpolation and Populate the Portfolio-Trend
Matrix
4. Create BoxPlots and Trends of Median/Total year on year
for the Portfolio-Trend Matrix
* Analyse and Create the Strategy
*** Combine heavily correlated products into product groups
for combined analysis or keep them separate in step (2)

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*I have omitted the Box Plots and Trend Charts
1. Analysis will lead to Decisions and new Scenarios
2. Decisions will mean Updating the Two Matrix’s
3. And back to step (1) Analysis

8. And The Philosophy Behind The Answer
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*Collective Knowledge and Experience
*Communication
*Coordination
*Democratic Management
*Representation
*Authority Consolidation
*Avoidance of Action

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*Indecisiveness
*Compromised Decisions
*Mediocre Decisions
*High Costs
*Diffused Responsibility
*Domination by a Few
*Perpetuation of the group
*Transparency

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*Committee’s – Overarching Purpose
*Task Force – Till the immediate task is done or
Issue Based

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* **** (0) Post Id Agile Ideation on the whiteboard. Consensus
* (1) Present your arguments (Critical Thinking)
* Someone proposes a solution
* Poker Voting – If majority agreement -> Freeze and move on
* Mediation or Veto!!!
* Goto – (1)
* 2 Party System
* Proposer, Initiator, Presenter & Defense
* Opposition…
* Iterate
* Choose Sides
* Argue
* Mediator – Has Consensus been reached?
* Mediator could Veto! Or Conclude!
* Golden Rule: Stay away from midway- mediocre – negotiated settlements

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* In general, an opinion is a belief about matters commonly
considered to be subjective, i.e., it is based on that which is
less than absolutely certain, and is the result of emotion or
interpretation of facts. An opinion may be supported by an
argument, although people may draw opposing opinions from
the same set of facts. Opinions rarely change without new
arguments being presented. It can be reasoned that one
opinion is better supported by the facts than another by
analysing the supporting arguments.In casual use, the term
opinion may be the result of a person's perspective,
understanding, particular feelings, beliefs, and desires. It
may refer to unsubstantiated information, in contrast to
knowledge and fact-based beliefs.

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*There are usually better ways to get things
done than by committee’s in most cases
*Consensus is the biggest problem
*Committee’s by themselves are not bad how
we run them is! Lets fix that
*The purpose is “people exchange, ideas and
information and take a joint decisions”

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* A committee is a group of persons within an organization to whom, as a group, some
matter is committed. The committee may be formed for a limited duration or a
standing committee. Also the members of the team may or may not have other
responsibility in the organization in addition to those as a member of the committee.
* The biggest advantage of committee is that it provides a convenient means of a larger
number of people exchange, ideas and information ad take a joint decisions. By careful
selection of the membership of committees, it is possible to bring together a wide
range of ideas, expertise and interests together. When committee consists of people
representing different department and functions in the department, it helps to ensure
that all aspects of a decision are considered before final decision. Also, as decisions
are taken jointly be all the committee members, their acceptance by all the
departments represented on the committee is easier.
* Major disadvantage of committee is that they usually require considerable expenditure
of total manpower in the committee work. The committees are also known to cause
excessive delays in decision making and in taking action. Frequently, an absence of a
clear cut authority and responsibility for results, the committee becomes tend to take
decision that represent compromise between dissenting views rather than an optimal
balance of conflicting requirements. In some situations, where one member or a small
group is significantly more powerful than others, some people may impose their
decision on the committee. In this way the more powerful members gain power beyond
the intended limits. Further, this power is not accompanied by matching responsibility.

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*It’s the Idea’s that matter
*So lets open up committee’s to the entire
organization over a social tool

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*Don’t Represent groups/divisions
*You have to take sides on the issue at hand as
an individual expert
*The organizational context is an additional
learning experience but not a binding opinion
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Aditya!!!