Plan to Pivot

Plan to Pivot outlines a very different approach to management that highlights flexibility, responsiveness, and agility.

It describes how the increasing frequency of events like climate change and political unrest, along with globalization, technology, and communications, are confirming that risk is accelerating, businesses are more volatile, and organizations are (or should be) trying to understand how to prepare to Pivot away from the next crisis and toward stability and opportunity.

The book describes the importance of connecting planning with managing. It outlines a process grounded in the development and piloting of new ideas derived from customer feedback and market intelligence. For planners, the process of visioning possible future states as the context for the next round of investment/disinvestment decisions needs to be the new operating norm. For managers, the process of rapid product and program delivery, customer feedback, and bringing that information back to the planning team for inclusion in the next strategic plan, needs to drive an agile strategic management process.

This Agile Management process is based on the principles of the Agile Manifesto (2001) where planning and management are one continuous cycle, centered on the customer and managed by smart teams. This is a new way to cope with speed and ambiguity. A new way of doing business.

Plan to look ahead. Plan to Pivot. Plan to Communicate. All will be needed in the years ahead.

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All net proceeds from book sales to be shared between the Margaret T. and Dominic J. Starsia Jr. Student/Athlete Scholarship Fund at the School of Education and Human Development Foundation at the University of Virginia and the Building Goodness Foundation.

Plan to Pivot

Plan to Pivot outlines a very different approach to management that highlights flexibility, responsiveness, and agility.

Buy Plan to Pivot

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