Radical Business Agility: Navigating Through Uncertain Times - Hardcover

by Hans Amell (Author), Kurt Larsson (With), Bob Waterman (Foreword by)

Future success depends upon the ability to respond with agility to colossal, rapid changes that lie ahead. Public and private organizational life is changing dramatically. We do not have the luxury of time anymore. Product cycles are shorter and job security is uncertain. Everything is moving faster, and we are experiencing an exponential growth of new technologies and systems pouring into our society. There is uncertainty in the geopolitical arena, and with climate change. There are pandemics, conflicts, and fiscal volatility stress. These challenges make it imperative to become and practice agility in business.

Radical Agility provides insight into key factors necessary for agility and the different ways to make your organization more agile. It also provides a compendium of tools that will help you implement agile practices into the processes, systems, organizational structure, and business culture in your industry in order to overcome inhibitors of agility--and long-term business success.

Author Biography

Hans Amell, is a Harvard trained Swede who has lived in the U.S.A. since 1987. He is a McKinsey alumnus, and former executive officer in leading global corporations such as Dun and Bradstreet Group, Cognizant Corp, Ericsson and others. He is called upon to execute major change in corporations and institutions via board memberships or via his company, Catalyst Acquisition Group. Mr. Amell is also the founding partner in the Minerva Group and its parent CAG International AG. He is a leading player in the cutting edge of agile consulting services with his Dynamic Navigational System products and in the application of efficient blended learning solutions for large organizations. He was also the lead founder and Executive Chairman of Intrepid Learning Systems and created Gartner Custom Research after acquiring the GCR unit from Gartner. His passion is creating and applying agility within organizations that understand the need for quicker implementation of change, but very wisely recognize they will need assistance to accomplish this.