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Summary: Agility a Necessity
Review: Agility a Necessity: I read this book while working in Malaysia and had the time to reflect on the two business worlds I have experienced in the USA and Asian Pacific Rim. The books brings to mind that taking an organization and moving its mentality is like trying to get a huge oil tanker to make a 180 degree turn.... not an easy task. Mr. Dove clearly states in the book the why, the need and the expectations for survival and how to shift ones business view from stagnated status quo to an adaptive and agile environment. The books content is not the type that you just breeze through and whip together a program to initiate change. Instead, you have to take the time to read, step back and understand where you are at and what it will take to define the change. In the book, Mr. Dove gives several examples and templates on how to evaluate and redefine your business environment. I would not recommend this book to those who want to remain in a lazy business environment and hope that the cash flow continues until they retire. This book is for those that are tough enough to step forward, make a difference and do the homework to drive some agility into their business environment. Of course...it does not matter if you are in Asia or the USA...this book is most applicable where ever you are in this world!
Rating:
Summary: Agility a Necessity
Review: Agility a Necessity: I read this book while working in Malaysia and had the time to reflect on the two business worlds I have experienced in the USA and Asian Pacific Rim. The books brings to mind that taking an organization and moving its mentality is like trying to get a huge oil tanker to make a 180 degree turn.... not an easy task. Mr. Dove clearly states in the book the why, the need and the expectations for survival and how to shift ones business view from stagnated status quo to an adaptive and agile environment. The books content is not the type that you just breeze through and whip together a program to initiate change. Instead, you have to take the time to read, step back and understand where you are at and what it will take to define the change. In the book, Mr. Dove gives several examples and templates on how to evaluate and redefine your business environment. I would not recommend this book to those who want to remain in a lazy business environment and hope that the cash flow continues until they retire. This book is for those that are tough enough to step forward, make a difference and do the homework to drive some agility into their business environment. Of course...it does not matter if you are in Asia or the USA...this book is most applicable where ever you are in this world!
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Summary: A tri-level business pattern
Review: I am both biased and surprised. Biased because I was involved in some
of the experiences on which this book is based and because I reviewed
parts of the manuscript. Surprised because, knowing the focus was on
real world pragmatics by a guy who has pioneered on the factory floor,
I simply did not expect the span of coverage that emerged when all the
chapters were brought together. This book is about how to make
factories more productive. But also it is about how to make
businesses more responsive and more profitable. Further, it is about
how to facilitate proactive learning by all employees. What a concept
- letting everyone help make their enterprise successful. In a few
pages Response Ability shows you more about knowledge management than
most authors can muster in a whole book. Further, Response Ability
shows how all three aspects of a sustainably successful enterprise fit
together, each reinforcing the other, through a framework and module
architectural concept. Of course, the reason all this works so well
is that all is based on principles (clearly explained) and vetted by
results. Results count. And with this book Response Ability is a
result that every alert leader can create.
Rating:
Summary: A tri-level business pattern
Review: I am both biased and surprised. Biased because I was involved in some
of the experiences on which this book is based and because I reviewed
parts of the manuscript. Surprised because, knowing the focus was on
real world pragmatics by a guy who has pioneered on the factory floor,
I simply did not expect the span of coverage that emerged when all the
chapters were brought together. This book is about how to make
factories more productive. But also it is about how to make
businesses more responsive and more profitable. Further, it is about
how to facilitate proactive learning by all employees. What a concept
- letting everyone help make their enterprise successful. In a few
pages Response Ability shows you more about knowledge management than
most authors can muster in a whole book. Further, Response Ability
shows how all three aspects of a sustainably successful enterprise fit
together, each reinforcing the other, through a framework and module
architectural concept. Of course, the reason all this works so well
is that all is based on principles (clearly explained) and vetted by
results. Results count. And with this book Response Ability is a
result that every alert leader can create.
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Summary: Practical Breadth
Review: You know, original thinking in business books is rare, so it is something to celebrate when something new and useful -- even paradigm busting comes around.Rick Dove is something of an Abraham Lincoln of the Agility movement, having been there from the very beginning. So part of what you'll get here is the maturest ideas that have been put into practice from the small community of original researchers. The Abe metaphor carries into the fact that Rick has chosen to focus his intellect on practical breadth. His approach is rational and understandable: he speaks the language that real managers use, and he uses the type of useful conceptual devices apparent in the clever title. My own book on Agility ("The Agile Virtual Enterprise") takes a different approach: focusing on a few high payoff, hard problems of interest to advanced implementors. It probably does better as a second book on agility, after one has become convinced. I wish this book had preceded mine in publication -- it did so as far as the legacy of many of the ideas: Rick's ideas were shared early in the game with other, concurrent researchers. Check it out. It is accessible, with many case studies. And these aren't the headline type of "Chinese food" examples, but the kind that dig in and actually turn the cases inside out. It has tools that you can use now, that are applied in these case studies to show you how and why they work. All that's rare enough, but the most valuable element here is the original thinking. If you are not exposing yourself to original thinking of this type -- well, you're just not a manager.
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