The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy

Description

Use this practical, step-by-step guide on lean agile strategy to harness technological disruption at your large business to successfully advance your business rather than suffer a loss of business. The lean agile enterprise concept is demystified and translated into action as the author shares his experience with both success and major failure in areas such as healthcare, insurance, major airline, manufacturing, financial services, education, and big data. The author shares the good, the bad, and the ugly of enterprise-level adoption of lean startup practices (what we call a “lean corporation”). The book provides step-by-step instructions specifically targeted to technologists in multiple roles—from CEO to a developer on the ground—on how to build a “lean agile corporation” and avoid common traps. Building on the experience of the “lean startup” framework of Steven Blank and Eric Reis, this book takes these concepts to the enterprise level by providing tips and best practice guidelines, sharing “horror stories” and common anti-patterns in a fun and engaging way. What You'll Learn Discover how you can contribute to your company as it becomes a lean agile corporation and survives technological and digital disruptionBeat Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google at their own game by using methods they use to quickly experiment with new services and features Understand how to advance your career in a lean startup framework Know how you can trace your company’s success to your daily work Who This Book Is For Those in technology and business who are interested in strategy, business agility, management, execution, new technologies, and in the future of the business world. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxx Get Into the Entrepreneurial Mindset (Michael Nir)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Start with the Customer in Mind (Michael Nir)....Pages 11-19 Define and Communicate the Mission and Vision (Michael Nir)....Pages 21-31 Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model (Michael Nir)....Pages 33-41 Identify Metrics That Matter (Michael Nir)....Pages 43-50 Pivot or Persevere (Michael Nir)....Pages 51-56 Front Matter ....Pages 57-58 First 30 Days (Michael Nir)....Pages 59-72 First 90 Days (Michael Nir)....Pages 73-92 First 12 Months (Michael Nir)....Pages 93-110 Front Matter ....Pages 111-112 Achieve and Retain Leadership Support (Michael Nir)....Pages 113-130 Consider the Corporate Culture (Michael Nir)....Pages 131-142 Evangelize Across the Enterprise (Michael Nir)....Pages 143-154 What Big Data Doesn’t Tell Us (Michael Nir)....Pages 155-161 Back Matter ....Pages 163-165