| |March 20189CIOReview01010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010100110011001010101010101010100110 011001 1001 1001100101001100110011use of technologies for the benefits of their organization and customers. In several cases, I have seen the pat-tern of "Adopting Latest Technology Trends with Slowest Decision pro-cess" 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 leader-ship, 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. Follow-ing are key challenges I have seen in my experience.· Overall working culture is not agile and energetic to adopt a change· Executives Planning and Prepa-ration 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 meas-urement model it becomes difficult to manage and measure the benefits realization· Initiatives start with positive en-ergy and passion and dry out down the line due to lack of primary focus and motivation· And lot more......How 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 alterna-tives were not clearly defined, the right information was not collected, the costs and benefits were not ac-curately 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 qual-ity solutions is very important but "Being agile" is most important for executives to provide all required better decisions faster, serve, pro-tect 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 cer-tain 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. Collabora-tion 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 consider-ing all aspects of the need. The col-laborative 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 so-lution for it.· Continuous Feedback ­ Every-one wants feedback to improve con-tinuously. 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 processes, approaches, tools, and technologies that we use-but very rarely the feedback on how we have thought or made decisions. In today's world, almost everything is continuous. For Example, Continu-ous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitor-ing and Continuous Improvement. Most of the time everything is con-tinuous with traditional thinking and hence we get slow pace results. Agile Thinking helps to revise our think-ing model at regular intervals using retrospectives to have continuous im-provement 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. The Agile thinking helps executives to focus more on people aspect in continuous fashion than only on processes. The 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 errors in our thinking and decision model. It also helps to build the better re-lationships with any working teams and better relationships help to pro-duce faster and better results. Hence, to get faster and better results, faster and better decisions are most im-portant. 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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