The A3 Agile Business: An Agile Alignment Approach

Editor's Notes

1. 61-year tenure for average firm in 1958 narrowed to 35 years in 1980—to 18 years now. A warning to execs: At current churn rate, 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027. http://www.innosight.com/innovation-resources/strategy-innovation/creative-destruction-whips-through-corporate-america.cfm
2. For example, WhatsApp, recently purchased by Facebook for $19 billion, went from launch in June 2009 to more than 400 million active users in January 2014 who sent 45 billion messages on New Years Eve 2013. That’s fewer than 5 years and has resulted in an estimated loss of $32.5 billion in revenue from SMS fees for mobile phone networks.http://www.bgr.in/news/the-rise-of-whatsapp-a-timeline-ss214/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-21/whatsapp-shows-how-phone-carriers-lost-out-on-33-billion.htmlhttp://recode.net/2014/04/02/jumping-into-the-tornado-market-insights-from-the-19-billion-whatsapp-acquisition/
3. In 2003 Ryan Martens, founder and CEO of Rally Software, was inspired by claims in the book Natural Capitalism that we need a factor of four productivity increase in the use of natural resources to get to a sustainable place with the current population in the world. At that time, Agile was on the rise as a popular and proven approach to improving software delivery effectiveness, and thus Rally Software was born (originally as F4 Technologies), with a mission to help organisations use Agile principles and practices as a means to achieving that vision.
4. You can Plan to get lucky, but hope is not a great strategy
5. 1. Appreciation of a system: understanding the overall processes involving suppliers, producers, and customers (or recipients) of goods and services (explained below);2. Knowledge of variation: the range and causes of variation in quality, and use of statistical sampling in measurements;3.Theory of knowledge: the concepts explaining knowledge and the limits of what can be known.4. Knowledge of psychology: concepts of human nature.
6. Christopher Avery’s Team Orientation Process
7. https://flic.kr/p/8D4Qtf
8. https://flic.kr/p/kCBPki7yrs coastal erosions in 2 months. 5 meters in some places.