How AGILE is your Strategy?

In an environment increasingly characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA), organisations are increasingly looking into adopting agile, sprint-based approaches to strategy development, execution, review and redirects.
 
Many companies are applying methodologies to develop and scale their businesses characterized by time-boxed, hypothesis-driven and evidence-based iterations around a “build”, “test” and “learn” loop. This agile approach, adapted from the domains of product and software development, is seen as a way of making sure that the company’s value proposition and offerings are relevant to the customers they are hoping to create.

This survey seeks to shed light on how leaders are thinking about how their approaches to strategy and execution are morphing to deal better with on going change and uncertainty. We estimate it will take 7-10 minutes to complete.
 
Thank you for participating. 
 

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* 1. To what extent do you expect an increase or decrease in the VUCA elements with respect to your business over the next 5 years?

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* 2. What do you see as your single biggest adaptive challenge right now for your business?

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* 3. How fast are you as a business in adapting your activities and effecting course correction?

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* 4. What tools and methodologies do you use to stay strategically agile?
For each of the tool/ process that applies, please define how effective it is for your organisation. 

  Highly Effective, Somewhat Effective, or Not Effective
Long range strategic planning
Scenario planning
Balanced Scorecard system
Strategy Mapping
Continuous improvement
Initiative management
Advanced analytics
Real time strategy reviews

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* 5. How do you balance the dual requirements of being Tactical (making and sticking to the plan) and being Adaptive (changing or adjusting the plan) during the planning cycle?

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* 6. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements on the impact of change environment on your organisation?

 
We respond to VUCA/change through specific change programmes and/or strategic initiatives
We are using frequent review, online platforms and/or engagement forums to actively rethink our strategies
We need to improve our ability to review and adjust our strategy on a more real time basis
We need to re-allocate our resources (projects / budgets) more dynamically throughout the planning cycle

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* 7. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements on the impact of change environment on your organisation?

 
There is greater management focus on short-term change programmes than on long-term ones.
There is management reluctance to commit to new change programmes while business conditions remain unpredictable
We are focusing more on continuous improvement than on larger change initiatives

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* 8. What are the types of change that have been implemented in your organisation in the last 3 to 5 years?

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* 9. How many Change/ Strategic initiatives do you believe you will launch over the next 12 months?

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* 10. What will be the main motivations for your organisation’s strategic initiatives over the next 12 months ?

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* 11. In your view, how successful have you been as an organization in implementing strategic/change initiatives in the past 5 years?

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* 12. Typically, what percentage of projects in your organisation successfully deliver the expected quantifiable benefits ?

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* 13. For the change and/or strategic initiatives in your organisation that did not succeed in the past 12 months, what were the most important factors in influencing their failure?

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* 14. Conversely, what are the critical success factors which have helped you respond to change successfully in your organisation?

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* 15. What is the single most important measure in determining whether a change programme has been successful in your organisation?

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* 16. What is the specialisation of your role in the organisation?

 
Strategy / Corporate Planning
Performance Management
Human Resource
Finance
Operations
Marketing
Sales / Business Development
Communication

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* 17. Select the descriptions that best describes your business

  Size of the Business: Size of workforce: Ownership Structure: Span of Operation:
Select the descriptions that best describes your business

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