The 6 Enablers of Business Agility

We are absolutely delighted to have Karim Harbott joining us from London U.K. to discuss the topic of his new book: "The 6 Enablers of Business Agility". This is a must attend event for anyone curious about what business agility is about and the case for pursuing it.

--- Overview of the event ---

Many organisations are built to survive and thrive in a 20th-century business climate. A climate marked by relative stability and low levels of competition, where efficiently delivering known products and services for years was the recipe for success.

Unfortunately, what worked back then does not work well today. The 21st century is anything but stable and competition is anything but low. An exponential rise in volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA), and hyper-competition means that the old approach is not enough. In this talk, we will explore why, to thrive in this new world, organisations need to also be effective at creating new products, services and even entire business models. They must become masters of reinvention. They must achieve business agility.

And yet, most Agile transformations fail. They fail because their focus is too narrow. We will explore The 6 Enablers of Business Agility and how focusing on these areas can help to unlearn 20th-century practices and set organisations up for success in today’s new context.

Outcomes:
– Describe how given the relative stability of the 20th century, exploiting existing products and services with efficiency was the main competitive advantages
– Explain that, given the vastly increased levels of VUCA in the 21st century, exploring new products and services with agility has become the new competitive advantage
– Outline the main reasons why most ‘Agile Transformations’ fail, and explain why only those which take a broader focus and a holistic approach will success

--- About the Speaker ---

Karim is a leadership and business agility expert, entrepreneur, author, non-executive director, and international keynote speaker. He has 20 years’ experience in digital product development and over a decade of experience helping organisations with business agility, working with some of the most complex organisations anywhere in the world.

He is one of only a handful of people globally to hold CST, CEC, CTC, and CAL-Educator status. He is also an ICF Professional Certified Coach®, and Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach. He holds a BSc in mathematics from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris.

Karim is also the creator of the Business Agility Canvas ( https://www.agilecentre.com/resources/self-assessment-tools/business-agility-canvas/) , a widely-used strategic tool for driving agile transformations, and is the author of the newly published book The Six Enablers of Business Agility; How to Thrive in an Uncertain World ( https://www.6enablers.com/ ). He currently serves as a non-executive director with the Scrum Alliance.

--- Agenda ---
7:50pm (AEST) Join the call for informal networking
8:00pm Welcome & speaker introduction
8:05pm Presentation from Karim
8:50pm Discussion of participant questions
9:20pm Close

We will be using Zoom for this session. The Zoom link is available here only to those who have RSVP'd "Yes".

--- SEUs ---
This event earns you 1.5 Scrum Alliance SEUs.

--- Sponsorship ---
Thanks to our organising sponsor Scrum WithStyle for time invested in organising this event & covering the cost of the video conferencing tools that this group uses. Scrum WithStyle has offered Scrum and Agile training as well as consulting since 2008: https://www.scrumwithstyle.com/