Alamo PMI Monthly Meeting - Virtual - May 2025

Event Date: May 27th, 2025 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (CDT)

Location: Virtual, Zoom 

Speaker: Gene Gendel

Presentation Title: "Business Agility as a part of Organizational Agility"

Synopsis:

• Who gets to say what an agile transformation should look like?
• Who should play a leading role in setting system-optimizing goals of a big organizational change?
• Who should take a main seat at the table, where real products are defined?

Of course, business people! Lines of business, product lines - they are a company's revenue centers and they should be, to a large extent, in the driver's seat. Business agility is paramount to success!  The ability of the business to 'turn on a dime for a dime' is critical for organizational adaptiveness. But of course, adaptive-ness of a business alone is not sufficient to achieve success. Many other organizational structures should be striving to become more adaptive, in unison with the business: HR, budgeting, site strategies, R&D, vendor management etc. Altogether, this is referred as eco-systemic (a.k.a. organizational) agility - united and indivisible. It is also important not to slip down the path of fragmented agility, whereas each organizational structure tries to define its own agility that asynchronous/orthogonal agility of other org structures.

Gene Gendel is the co-founder of KSTS Consulting. Gene is an organizational design consultant, adaptive & lean coach and trainer, and independent adviser to senior leadership.  Gene is a widely recognized, world-class trainer/instructor, and is mainly focused on organizational design and product centricity, the experience for which he has gained, over the decades of deeply embedded coaching and consulting.  Gene’s clients represent a wide industry spectrum.  Almost 15 of 20+ years of his professional experience Gene  has dedicated to working with companies of various sizes and lines of business, trying to help them improve internal dynamics, organizational structure and becoming a better place  for people to work in.  In his work,  Gene uses various methods, tools and techniques to amplify learning of other people and to ensure that his followers gain autonomy after Gene “coaches himself out of the job”.  Over the last decade, Gene’s big focus has been on large financial institutions and consulting companies that struggle with moving away, from traditional budgets and portfolio/program/project work decomposition, towards more adaptive/flexible budgeting and clearly defined products (product-centric, customer-focused development).  Gene’s, highly in-demand, LeSS classes and product discovery & definition workshops, both private and public, are based on intuitive system modelling and rich eco-systemic perspective that includes intra-organizational dynamics and market realities.  Gene is one of very few people who has been honored the status of Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) – EMERITUS – something that is earned after 10 years of having CEC.  Gene is also one of the co-creators and holders of Certified Team Coach (CTC).  Since 2015, Gene has built the largest, fastest growing and the most active global Large Scale Scrum community, counting close to 7200 members, from around the world.  Gene is also a frequent presenter and panelist, publicly and privately, with a very diverse gamut of engaging topics.