Adaptive Flow Blog

The retail market’s landscape continues to shift dynamically at an accelerating rate. Two thought leaders, Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz and Andy Czuchry, Jr, have been collaborating on……

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February 6, 2020

Adaptive Leaders need to create “Dynamic Alignment”

Today’s business climate is hyper-connected with an accelerating pace-of-change. This business climate creates important differences for leaders now, as compared to the…

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January 13, 2020

Rather than Work-Breakdown-Structure, use VALUE-Breakdown-Structure

As we continue to extend our written discussion of OKRs for Unknown Management from a prior post, we can begin to show how we capture various……

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January 12, 2020

Leveraging OKRs for “Unknown Management”

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are becoming increasingly popular. That’s good news for many organizations, possibly including your own organization… especially IF you use…

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January 11, 2020

It’s not change management; it’s UNKNOWN management

Here are a few foundational observations that are emerging, as we craft our messaging to help others realize what makes Adaptive Flow distinct and relevant………

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July 28, 2019

Adaptive change is enabled by constraints

In my prior blog post, I referenced an observation that “change is changing”, and a “new operating model” is needed based on an “adaptive change……

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June 8, 2019

Change is Changing

Welcome to your new reality: change is changing. By that, I mean change is no longer static; change has become fluid. You can no longer……

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January 1, 2019

Success Begins… Before you even Start

I used to say, “I love solving problems”. Now, I’ve refined that to say, “I‘m driven by creating success”. The difference is important: the first statement……

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November 26, 2018

That’s No Longer True!

Many of the exciting challenges in the practical application of Business Agility today come down to the topic of adaptive problem-solving in complex environments. That……

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October 28, 2018

Thought & Experience Leadership: 7 Dimensions of Business Agility

The series of posts listed below addresses my observations and learnings to date in Organizational Transformations and Business Agility Leadership. It draws on my collective&…

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June 24, 2018

A starting point for talking about OKRs

Let’s start measuring how we’re doing in actual business terms. A great construct for using measurements and feedback that lead to operational excellence is OKRs……

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June 5, 2018

Creating Better Results: Ecosystems, Execution, Culture, and Strategy

If we want better results and outcomes, then something has to be changed or adapted. That’s a given, at least for the context of this……

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June 1, 2018

Resonating quotes from “Measure What Matters”

Based on the past several years of experience as I’ve been leading business agility transformations, including driving the adoption of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)……

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May 12, 2018

Business Agility At Scale: experiences with Modern Agile and FLEX

This is an introductory post regarding my practical experiences with concepts from two lean-agile models and two lean-agile constructs that are emerging in the enter…

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July 1, 2017

Lean Agile Model – train, coach, holistic flow

Let’s briefly look at three topics in the context of Lean Agility for an entire enterprise: Training Coaching Lean Process Leadership Each of these topics……

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June 24, 2017

7 Steps in Sustainable Lean-Agile Transformations

Through many years of experience in leading and adapting broad lean-agile transformations, a pattern of seven concrete practice sets is emerging as a holistic systems……

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March 19, 2017

Execution for Driving Value

Given a set of constructs aligned to Value as a starting point for execution, specifically the constructs of Impact Definitions and Business Value Increments (see Va…

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March 19, 2017

Value and Activity Distinctions

This post has a targeted focus for differentiating between “Activity” and “Value”. Let’s begin with clarification of the terms: Activity is what is getting done……

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March 19, 2017

Systems, People, and Culture

There are three terms used in agile communities in various ways and they each carry different implications: system, people, and culture. Depending on a person’s perspect…

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March 11, 2017

Enterprise Agility – perspectives

Preface: The content presented below is a snapshot view into the process of crafting a holistic description for how an Enterprise Agility puzzle can fit togethe…

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February 5, 2017

Structured Feedback makes a positive agile impact

Structured Feedback The concept and practices of “structured feedback” were created as a problem solving tool for addressing a critical issue emerging in Lean and Ag…

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January 29, 2017

Tame the monster

This topic addresses the following: Tame the monster of Enterprise Agility Chaos (how structured feedback unleashes the power of Enterprise Agility) An executive leader…

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December 18, 2016

Priorities, Metrics, and Value

When leading enterprise-wide lean-agile transformations, there are often many topics that compete for attention. Additionally, for some of the topics, there is added&nbs…

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October 6, 2016

What serious games can teach us about agile transformations…

There are powerful sets of insights that can be drawn in analogies between serious games and lean agile transformations. Let’s capture a few of the timely high…

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October 1, 2016

Preparing for a transformation…

As you prepare for a transformation, consider that your first choice is to select your foundational approach to the transformation itself: “adopt” or “adapt“. This……

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August 30, 2016

Business Agility and Value Stream Complexity

Business Agility not only adds additional organizational disciplines into a Lean Agile framework, it also adds inherent complexity* into its corresponding Value Stream**.…

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August 29, 2016

From the Inside Out

“From the Inside Out” is a concept that recognizes the critical role of an internal transformation agent as a catalyst to complement external transformation consultancies…

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August 28, 2016

Agile Transformations, from the inside out

Starting work on a new book idea: Agile Transformations, from the inside out. The framework is a 9-step pattern for Agile Transformations, in the context……

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