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Preparing for contingencies in change management

Preparing for Contingencies in Change Management

There are many interesting parallels between leadership in the military and corporate America. While not everything that works for the military is suited to corporate change management, there are certain military ideas and practices that, when adapted to corporate use, can strengthen and enhance a company’s strategic planning and execution.

Corporate Functions

Using Agile Ways of Working to Keep Corporate Functions in Alignment

Functions within an organization can often take on an interesting dynamic. While they have immense capacity to influence the customer experience as well as the general welfare of the company, no one chooses to do business with a company based solely on the work or services of a function.  Whether

Adaptive Organization

Designing an Adaptive Organization

The world today is experiencing a faster rate of change than ever before. Technological advancement is happening at lightning speed, and this is causing ripple effects throughout organizations, talent, culture, and nearly all aspects of organizational life.  As leaders respond to and anticipate in this level of change, they often

Agile Organization Design

How to Structure Your Agile Organization Design Team

To fully benefit from an Agile organization design effort, you need effective teams and means of engaging stakeholders and customers. True to Agile principles, your team should be customer-centric, flexible enough to respond to market changes, and capable of producing design “products” that you can test and implement immediately. But,

Work Processes

Is It Worth the Time to Map Current State Work Processes?

The world is moving fast. Today’s most successful businesses employ agile practices and processes that enable them to keep pace with rapidly changing markets, customer trends, global events and economic shifts. That level of flexibility requires ongoing assessment, analysis and realignment—a willingness to implement work process changes when necessary to

Agile Organization Design

Why Take an Agile Approach to Organization Design?

Learn how Agile organization design can help companies complete transformations quickly, respond to changing markets and
consistently produce differentiated business models tailored to customer needs. 

Organization design team adapting agile principles

Adapting Agile Principles for Improved Organization Design

Learn how employing four Agile principles in your organization design can improve the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of your organization.

organization transformation strategy

Designing Your Business Model for Resiliency

In a dynamically changing marketplace, the need to be faster and more agile has become an organizational imperative. Since change is inevitable, an organization’s transformation strategy has to be taken into account when designing a winning business model. As we point out in our book, Mastering the Cube, one of

Young businesswoman leading an Agile organization transformation

How Do You Lead an Agile Organization Transformation?

Learn how an Alignment Leader and change partner can work together to help create an organization culture that embraces Agile principles.

Organization Transformation

What Does an Agile Organization Transformation Journey Look Like?

After helping dozens of organizations improve the efficiency, quality, and success of their work processes using an Agile approach, we at AlignOrg Solutions are firmly convinced of the benefits Agile can bring to many companies. However, when we talk about incorporating Agile principles into organization design, we are in no