Andrea Jones introduces Executagility, an organization's ability to execute important projects consistently. Four pillars determine it: alignment, available time, competence, and structure. The video includes an assessment tool for small-to-medium businesses.
I'm Andrea Jones and today we're going to talk about execute agility. Execute agility is your organization's ability to execute your most important projects consistently over time. So if you're executing like this, your company is running and your operations are going a certain way, but you really want to grow and scale or improve in some way and start executing like this, all the work it takes to get from here to there, those are projects. And we need to talk about how your team can do that really well with your same people that you have running the business on both ends. Okay, so execut agility is a measure of that. And there are four pillars. The first one is alignment. This is everyone's shared understanding of the work that needs to get done, when, by whom and why. That's the important thing to do right now. Second thing, available time. You're asking your team, who is running the business at this level, who will be running the business at that level to also execute those projects and those steps to get there. Most companies don't have extra people they can bring in. And instead of outsourcing that work, you would really like to insource it and keep that tribal knowledge in house. The third thing is competence. Again, if you want to insource the work and keep that knowledge in house, you want to make sure that the team you have has the technical skills to execute all those projects to get you to that growth or scaled place for your business. That leads us to the fourth pillar, which is structure. When I say structure, I mean do you have a standard, consistent process to execute those projects? When you say, here's what we're going to do, we're all aligned, we've made sure we've only given people the, the amount of work they have time to do while they're still keeping the lights on. Right. They're technically competent to do that work. Are they going to waste time just getting organized? Who's going to run the project? Who's going to track the actions? Who's going to measure the results? Who's going to escalate the big questions to the sponsor decision makers. That's the structure that I'm talking about. If a company is larger, they'll usually hire project managers and they'll have what's called a project management office or a PMO whole department whose job it is to come up with this structure in this process. Most small medium businesses don't have that. So they need to have a structure that's flexible, that works within their same team. Who's also keeping the lights on and running the day to day business. Okay, so Execute Agility. Your organization's ability to execute your most important projects consistently over time, comprised of alignment, available time, competence and structure. And I'm going to be talking about each one of these in detail. In this video series we have an assessment to figure out if you have these where your score is for Execute Agility as well as training and coaching to help your company insource this most important project work and have strong executagility. Thanks for watching.
