Larry Coopers' Agility Narrative on getting strategic about agility and innovation
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Larry's shares his agility narrative, tells us a story of many aha! moments where he learned the power and impact of innovation in terms of:
- technology
- work process
- focus on the why? and targeting impacts
- people
- having real conversations.
Enjoy! Larry
Thank you Janet for being the co-host on this event and for your highly insightful questions.
0:00
Welcome to The Agility Narratives Podcast
2:18
The first time Larry moved away from how projects were done And the Ice service in CANADA
3:55
Speed of delivery through early version of service orientated architecture
5:29
Learned that innovation delivered great results, this time changing how people work together
7:32
More Aha! moments - the importance of why and impact
9:02
Training on Agility and Value management, working with PMI and Prince2 on Agile - Too early
10:41
Cognitive diversity and putting people at the centre of transformation
11:23
The system is the villain and the people are the protagonist
11:49
Change is about engaging with people and creating the environment for it to happen
12:34
The Theme of Larry's Agility Narrative
13:54
Optimizing contribution - Intuitively knowing how best to contribute and the invite
15:06
Constrained innovation and Covid-19. If you are not willing to look at the fundamentals, then you are not serious about change
18:24
What is at stake for government and commerce if they don't take change seriously
19:28
How do you address your villain i.e. "the system"? A fundamental change in how leaders think.
20:46
Learning to be comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity as they have weaned on predictive planning
21:10
Thinking/behaviour patterns, and real conversations
23:32
Call to action - Start small, invite people and see how it works
25:27
We just need to understand how to have a conversation
27:41
Acknowledging the conversation we have had and going full circle.
28:02
Thank you and opportunity to take the threads of this conversation forward.
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