The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy: Incorporating Lean Startup and Lean Enterprise Practices in Your Business - Softcover

Nir, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484235363 ISBN 13: 9781484235362

Publisher: Apress, 2018

Synopsis

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 disruption
• Beat 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.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Nir is a keynote speaker, best selling author, and Lean Agile inspiration expert; known for his passion, creativity, and innovation.

Michael's master degree in engineering, certification in project management, and training in Gestalt balance his technical know-how with emotional intelligence. He inspires people and teams to change, experientially and emotionally, while climbing the hill AND reaching the summit.

The author of nine books on influence, consumer experience, and Agile project management, Michael delivers practical skills gained from 18 years of experience leading change at global organizations in diverse industries such as: Intel, Philips Healthcare, United Healthcare, DnB, Volvo, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Unilever, and many others. He is masterful at connecting the dots between human behavior, business systems, and work environment to drive highly productive teams and lead individuals to communicate effectively.

A passionate guide and mentor for organizations undergoing change, Michael has developed Lean startup training and delivery programs as well as Gestalt team-building and conflict management workshops.

 

Review

Software has eaten the world, and nowthe pace of technological change is eatingcompanies that try to operate without a lean mindset.   Largeenterprises must transform to compete andthrive in the modern digital economy.  This requires operating with a leanmindset from top to bottom and side to sideto keep up with the rapidly accelerating pace of change.  A transformationof this magnitude is daunting for even the world's most admired companiesbecause the required shift in mindset, culture, and practice impacts the entireorganization.  So how do you go from business as usual to atechnology-enabled disruptor that can rapidly adapt and respond? 
 
There are manytools, frameworks, books, and methods dealing with using lean to innovate likea startup, so how do you get started?  Michael's book is the place tostart your journey.  He brings together the best of Lean Startup, ScaledAgile, Lean UX, Design Thinking, and DevOps, distilling the most importantprinciples into 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year guides; the guides will help youfocus on customers from the onset, communicate your vision, synthesize anoperating model, measure what truly matters, and take steps to pivot whilepreserving what works. 
 
Michaelexplains the keys to success: falling in love with the problem not thesolution, fostering an environment of agility, and rapidly learning via leanexperiments that drivetransformation to build a corporate machinethat innovates like a startup.  Michael's use of lean analogies and antipatterns, combined with hisin-depth knowledge and experience in the field of transformation, make his booka great read for every executive, software leader, and transformation expertresponsible for leading change in large corporation.
 
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"Michael refines and answers oneof the hardest questions executives and transformation leaders face in themodern economy:  Where do I begin my journey to enterprise agility?"

Steve Elliott
Founder & CEO - AgileCraftthe World's #1 Agile Platform

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1484235363
• ISBN 13: 9781484235362
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 165