S5E113: Organisational Agility as a Strategic Imperative with Tim Creasey

In this week’s pod, we welcomed Tim Creasey to discuss Organisational Agility as a Strategic Imperative.
Tim Creasey is Prosci’s Chief Innovation Officer and a globally recognized leader in change management. His work forms the foundation of the largest body of knowledge in the world on managing the people side of change to deliver organizational results. The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:
Change is hard, change is continuous

• Organisational agility definitions:

• Agility is the power of moving quickly, easily, and with nimbleness
• Capacity to identify and capture opportunities more quickly than rivals
• Take advantage of change whether planned or unexpected
• Ability to transform information into insight in regard to market movements
• Result of integrating alertness to changes
• Sustained ability while maintaining high performance
• Change saturation is a function of change capacity and change disruption
• Businesses should always consider the hidden cost of saying yes
• What is the time difference between when the project sponsor said yes and when the project commenced
• More organisations are hiring change portfolio managers rather than increasing change capability
• Never allow perfection to get in the way of progress
• Businesses were obsessed with the digital revolution but not enough with digital transformation
• Could businesses have really adapted to remote working if the Covid pandemic did not happen?
• Paradoxical Humanity Infusion in 2D - The pandemic allowed us to see our colleagues in a different light over Zoom / Teams conversations
• Forced prioritization – rank what is important to you
• De facto resilience – we made it through the pandemic! Workers have inadvertently become more resilient
• “Answers have a shelf a shelf life, questions can last a lifetime”
• When and where does the wear actually happen? There needs to be a purpose when we share space.
• What have we done since 2020 that we thought was impossible prior to this? This proves what is possible?
• 12 conditions shaping the future of work and change
• Involuntary Digital Transformation
• Instantaneous Remote Experiment
• Iterative and Adaptive by Necessity
• Shifting Success Horizons
• TTWWADI ?!!?
• Paradoxical Humanity Infusion in 2D
• People's Side Cannot Be Unseen
• Same Storms; Different Boats
• Forced Prioritisation
• De Facto Resilience
• And it goes on, and on, and on…
• From Response to Evolution

Here are links to some of the concepts we discussed:
o   The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** - Mark Manson - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitive/dp/0062457713
Tune in next week when we’re joined by Ines Lopes to discuss The Spiritual Project Manager.
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