Creating sustainable agility through Strategy Deployment

By Julia Wester

Elevator Pitch

Learn a technique to break down organizational aspirations into actions that achieves desired outcomes. Using A3’s and the X-Matrix, you’ll experience a comprehensive thinking process to help ensure you build a solid approach, drive decisions down the organization and create a learning organization!

Description

Every year we are told the goals and aspirations of the organization. Yet, when its time to execute we see the individual departments walk in their separate directions to implement their ideas of what should be done to meet the goal. Not often do we see representatives from the various departments leave those meetings and start working sessions on how they can coordinate to deliver the desired outcomes. We end up deploying disconnected projects and initiatives and hope it all makes sense.

In this workshop we will teach you how to best deploy strategy within your organization using A3s and the X-Matrix. This approach helps organizations break down strategy into tactical actions and outcomes, enables cross-department collaboration and provides a safe way to drive decision-making down to where it should be - the place where the work is done. Because it’s based on a scientific approach, PDSA, its use helps build a learning organization through the way you do your work.

Notes

Only need some flip charts and markers, plus a projector. I will bring handouts for the workshop. I have been a student in the LeanAgile domain for about 5 years now. I work as a Lean Coach and have many examples of my work that you can reference for quality.