Fast paced learning and innovation shape today’s leading products, marketing, and customer journeys. To sustain that without burn out requires adopting Agile marketing practices. Is your company ready?
If the statements below sound like your company – you are doing great. If not, you will have some work to do before Agile practices can fully take hold.
The Agile Business Acceleration Building Blocks
Strategy & Vision:
Uses explicit language to align decision-making, investment, hiring, organizational structure, processes, and systems throughout the organization to collaboratively define and deliver exceptional customer value.
Creation and Delivery of Customer Value:
Use a clear/evolving definition of high-value customers and use scenarios for planning and prioritization across the organization. Brings the responsibility to drive customer value down to the individual level.
Culture / Leadership:
Empowers compensates and motivates the organization to passionately pursue the rapid creation of value, trial and error innovation and the elimination activities and efforts that contribute little or nothing to the rapid creation of customer value.
People & Organization:
Sets the organization up to work in small, highly collaborative self-directing teams that focus on time-bound delivery of high customer value results.
Process:
Supports fast – iterative – time-bound project cycles using evidenced-based – testing, validation, prioritization, planning and decision making that enable individuals to react with increased speed and creativity to create customer value.
Systems & Tools:
Support team communication, collaboration, reporting, analysis and processes with easy to use/manage systems that can be rapidly aligned to reflect and support rapid cycles of continual learning and innovation.
No organization does all of this perfectly. The key is to get started. So pick the area you feel you can gain the greatest traction fastest and get those done. Each step taken will make it easier for you to accelerate the delivery of customer value.
Mike Connor, Principal, Spice Catalyst
David Fradin
David Fradin has trained thousands of managers throughout the world in the successful management of products.
With over 47 years of experience across major companies, 75+ products and services and 11 startups, he infuses his workshops with insights gained as an expert product leader, product manager and product marketing manager at companies like Apple and HP.
He was classically trained as an HP Product Manager and was then recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market. As a result of his leadership and management skills, Apple promoted him first to Apple /// Group Product Manager and later Business Unit Manager at the same organizational level at that time as Steve Jobs.
He recently authored “Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed…This is their Story” Lessons from 47 years of experience including Hewlett-Packard, Apple, 75 products, and 11 startups later. Go to: Amazon Store
Also. "Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products" and "Marketing Insanely Great Products."
His workshops cover the founding values, vision, product lifecycle and management employed by Apple at its start and which it subscribes to today. You can learn more about his workshops at Spice Catalyst Workshops
From Wiley and Sons, is a 796 page, university-level textbooks entitled: "Successful Product Design and Management Toolkit" covering keys to product success, product market strategy, marketing, soft skills, user experience, user interface, product engineering, and product support.
What students will learn in the workshops, online courses and books are cover what has made Apple the most valuable company in the world today. Go to David Fradin @ Youcanbook to schedule a time to talk.
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