siliconindia | | May 2018901010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010100110011001010101010101010100110 011001 1001 1001100101001100110011technology vision to make better use of technologies for the benefits of their organization and customers. In several cases, I have seen the pattern of `Adopting Latest Technology Trends with Slowest Decision process' is getting used. It slows down the process of benefits realization and allows a competitor to move ahead.What Challenges do Executives face?Despite of Vision, thought leadership, roadmaps and detail strategies, most of the organizations do not get the expected results and outcomes on time with expected quality because there are several challenges. Following are key challenges I have seen in my experience.· Overall working culture is not agile and energetic to adopt a change· Executives Planning and Preparation takes ample of time· Executive Decisions are not faster to proceed ahead· Fear of Failure and Habit of delaying the important tasks despite knowing its benefits· Though decisions have been taken, "rate of action" is very slow · Though the actions have been taken, due to lack of systematic measurement model it becomes difficult to manage and measure the benefits realization· Initiatives start with positive energy and passion and dry out down the line due to lack of primary focus and motivationHow Agile Thinking Rapidly Helps?As per the HBR's (Harvard Business Review) article published by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa, bad decisions can often be traced back to the way the decisions were made ­ the alternatives were not clearly defined, the right information was not collected, the costs and benefits were not accurately weighed. But sometimes the fault lies not in the decision-making process but in the mind of decision makers. The way human brain works and thinks can sabotage the choices we make. `Doing agile' by delivery teams or innovation teams to build quality solutions is very important but `Being agile' is most important for executives to provide all required better decisions faster, serve, protect and facilitate the delivery and innovation teams to leverage latest technology benefits.Agile thinking is based on agile philosophy and mainly it is based on three pillars · Simplicity ­ Keep Everything Simple and Small. Even our decisions must be clear, simple to understand and better to manage. It should be KISS ­ Keep It Simple and Small. Most of us do have a habit to make it complex rather than simple without knowing it. · Collaboration ­ There are certain mental cobwebs that clutter up the thinking of almost everyone, even the most brilliant minds. Our feelings, emotions, habits, and beliefs become entangled in these webs. Collaboration with right key stakeholders not only helps to build quality solutions but to also build the Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) to think innovatively and take faster and smart decisions together as One Team by considering all aspects of the need. The collaborative thinking also helps to build right questions before coming up the solution. I have seen defining the problem as a simple problem is itself a challenge than coming up with a solution for it.· Continuous Feedback ­ Everyone wants feedback to improve continu-ously. Have you ever seen the practice of getting the continuous feedback on decision making? Most of the time we get or provide the feedback on pro-cesses, approaches, tools, and tech-nologies that we usebut very rarely the feedback on how we have thought or made decisions. In today's world, al-most everything is continuous. For ex-ample, Continuous Integration, Con-tinuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitoring and Continuous Improve-ment. Most of the time everything is continuous with traditional thinking and hence we get slow pace results. Agile Thinking helps to revise our thinking model at regular intervals us-ing retrospectives to have continuous improvement in our decision model.I have seen that most of the time problems are with people in terms of their decisions, actions rather than processes. Agile thinking helps executives to focus more on people aspect in continuous fashion than only on processes. Organization processes are important but people who are thinking and using those processes are most important. Finally, agile thinking helps us to drastically correct and reduce er-rors in our thinking and decision model. It also helps to build the bet-ter relationships with any working teams and better relationships help to produce faster and better results. Hence, to get faster and better re-sults, faster and better decisions are most important. Be Better Person Build Better Business Together, Live Better Life. The Agile thinking helps executives to focus more on people aspect in continuous fashion than only on processes
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