Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation

Released March 29^th 2021, the extensively revised and expanded 2nd edition. Available here:

• Amazon UK: Print | Kindle
• Amazon US: Print | Kindle
• Waterstones: Print

An ePub edition available on Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, and elsewhere. And since March 2020, a German translation:

• Agendashift™: Ergebnisorientierter Wandel und kontinuierliche Transformation in agilen Organisationen

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“Mike provides a path for new ways of working and thinking, new tools, and a new mindset for a continually changing reality. With his new book, he is showing a better way of working, where we can come together and intuitively understand how to move forward, even in challenging situations.”

“An impressive piece of culture technology – facilitates clear thinking and communication while encouraging real agreement at scale across the whole enterprise.”

“If you are a business leader looking for tools that facilitate real change in real organisations, this is your book.”

Extensively revised and with a new 6^th chapter, this second edition of Agendashift provides both the practical manual and the deep background for outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation. With its exercises explained in terms of memorable patterns such as Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO) and Meaning before Metric, the framework – an engagement model – is made significantly easier to understand and apply. Moreover, its generously-referenced and pluralistic style invites integration with a wide range of models and encourages further innovation in this exciting and rapidly-developing field.

Contents:

• Foreword to the 2^nd edition, Pia-Maria Thorén
• Foreword to the 1^st edition, Daniel Mezick
• Introduction – what Agendashift is and what it provides
• Chapter 1. Discovery – developing a shared sense of where we’d like to get to
• Chapter 2. Exploration – identifying opportunities for change, exploring outcomes in more depth
• Chapter 3. Mapping – visualising plans and priorities, understanding the relationships between outcomes
• Chapter 4. Elaboration – expanding and selecting options, framing the best as hypotheses, and developing them as experiments
• Chapter 5. Operation – sustaining change and maintaining alignment in the continuously transforming organisation
• Chapter 6. Up and down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – business agility at every scale
• Resources
• Appendix A: Agendashift workshops – transformation strategy, outside-in strategy, and short training
• Appendix B: From the 1^st edition – Principles, the Full Circle exercise

Author and Agendashift founder Mike Burrows describes himself as “in the business of wholehearted organisations”. Mike is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban, for his ground-breaking books Agendashift (2018, 2021), Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020), and Kanban from the Inside (2014), and as a champion of participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, strategy, and leadership. Before embarking on his consulting career, he was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, and CTO for an energy risk management startup.

Cover: Betty A. Davis

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