
What we’re about
The world is changing faster than ever before and Sustainable Outcomes are often neglected. Resiliency demands that you know more and adapt quickly.
Organizations of every size are struggling to remain relevant in the eyes of their customers and society. Customers are more informed, responsible for their future and their expectations are higher than they’ve ever been. Employees demand more clarity, empowerment, and meaning in their work. It is only high-performing, adaptable, and agile organizations who will thrive in this unpredictable market. We call this Sustainable Business Agility.
At its simplest, Sustainable Business Agility is the capacity and willingness of an organization to adapt to, create, leverage, and sustain change for their customer’s benefit. This simple statement exposes the dramatic shift in mindset needed for agile organizations. Where how you respond to the market is reliably more predictable than how the market responds to you.
Our Meetup will start with ONLINE events aiming at interactive talks, lean coffee, fish-bowls and other formats based on context.
Topics in the near future may include: Agile Strategy, Agile HR, Leadership Agility, De-Scaling, Scaling, Agile Procurement, Finance, Legal, Regulation together with R&D, Business, and IT
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- BA 7.4 - Dahm M. Hongchai: Survival of Leaders in a VUCA World (ONLINE)Link visible for attendees
The organizational environment of the 21st Century is becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). Leadership practices in technology management are evolving accordingly. A review of the literature on leadership concludes that success in a VUCA world requires approaches that focus on problem solving, relationships, empathy, and motivation (PREM), as well as integrating three traditional perspectives: authentic leadership, servant leadership, and adaptive leadership. Unfortunately, the literature on integrated approaches to leadership in technology management is very sparse. This paper consequently proposes a research agenda from which best practices for leadership in technology management in a VUCA world will hopefully emerge.
About our speaker:
Dahm M. Hongchai
Dahm is currently a researcher emphasizing on leadership, Agile with Scrum, and AI. He has supported businesses, social organizations, and academic institutions to transform from traditional operations to Agility. He provides recommendations from his empirical experiences and theorical studies. You can connect via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mongkolhongchai/About our hosts:
Rachel Dickstein
Rachel is an Agile coach and Agile Transformation consultant. She is extremely enthusiastic about the world of New Work as well as intercultural communication optimization. You can connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-dickstein-internationalagile/
Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships etc via https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjklatt/
- BA 8.0 - Jim Kalbach: Plays of JTBD (ONLINE)Link visible for attendees
Plays of JTBD: how Jim approached writing the JTBD Playbook, highlighting a few key plays and recipes.
About our speaker:
Jim Kalbach
Jim has worked in customer experience and innovation for over two decades. He is also passionate about new ways of working and has written extensively about teamwork and collaboration.
Reach out via https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalbach/About our hosts:
Rachel Dickstein
Rachel is an Agile coach and Scrum Master. She is extremely enthusiastic about the world of New Work as well as intercultural communication optimization. You can connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-dickstein-internationalagile/Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships etc via https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjklatt/ - BA 7.5 – Rijon Erickson: Work the System with the BetaCodex (ONLINE)Link visible for attendees
What is your organization’s biggest barrier to achieving business agility? Hint: it’s NOT the people. Join Rijon Erickson as he invites you to challenge conventional thinking about organizational design, self-organization and value creation in this informative and interactive session. Come with tough questions and be prepared to be surprised!
About our speaker
☮️💜🎶Rijon Erickson 🎶☯️🐿️
Rijon is a self-sovereign business and technology consultant and collaborative change practitioner who is passionate about connecting people with ideas, each other and themselves. Rijon has a 25-year history serving various roles in technology project delivery and support with several Fortune 500 companies. Rijon’s core practice is best described as creative improvisation inspired by the principles of jazz, Open Space Technology, the BetaCodex and the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Rijon's passion project is the Purple Squirrel Cafe - a brave, vibrant and antifragile digital event space that specializes in “100% Certified Organic Conversation” that inspires liberation of the human spirit, embodies unconditional respect for the personal sovereignty and human dignity of the Other, and celebrates the experience of joyful togetherness. Rijon most frequently touches the earth and inhabits space in Charlotte, NC with his wife, 26-year-old child, and their occasionally benevolent feline dictator. https://betacodex.org/
About our hosts
Markus #likeabosch works as Head of Agile Coaching / Chief Scrum Master, Systemic Coach, SPC at https://bosch.com
Thoralf serves as a Product Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships etc
- BA 8.1 - Benjamin Livonnen: Agile Pragmatism (ONLINE)Link visible for attendees
Agile: Adhering to Principles or Embracing Pragmatism
It's important to dispel a common misconception: there isn't a single "Agile book" that outlines a rigid set of rules for Agile methodologies. Agile is grounded in the Agile Manifesto, which encompasses four core values and twelve guiding principles. These values and principles are purposefully open-ended, offering a philosophical foundation rather than a prescriptive methodology.
This leads us to a critical question: Should an Agile approach be strictly implemented according to its principles, or should we embrace what could be termed "Agile Pragmatism"? That is, contextualizing the Agile mindset within the unique characteristics of an organization or product.
About our speaker:
Benjamin Livonnen
Benjamin is an experienced Agile leader with a background in telecoms, transportation, and the public sector. He loves guiding cross-functional teams to success, living by the motto: "Happy customers served by happy teams." Drawing from his consulting and entrepreneurship experience, as well as his knowledge of Lean and Agile, Benjamin also consults on organizational transformation. Currently, he's integrating these skills with a focus on sustainability, aiming to develop products and services that equally benefit customers and the planet! Please connect on https://www.linkedin.com/in/blivonnen/
About our hosts:
Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as an Enterprise Agile Coach. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. Reach out for speakerships etc via https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjklatt/
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