People PEST and Patterns

1. People, PEST and Patterns
- the 3Ps of Preventive Agility
John Mark Williams
CEO
Thursday 16th May, 2019

2. The world we live in…
http://www.strategicagilityinstitute.com/

3. The Framework for Business Agility…

4. If Business Agility is:
The power to Adapt and Respond
Then Preventive Agility is:
The power to Predict and Prepare

5. Sometimes we need to remedy the problem
Sometimes we need to act ahead of the problem
Sometimes we need to prevent the problem happening
…that's Preventive Agility
Practiced, Pre-emptive, Preventive…

6. People, PEST and Patterns
can be Barriers
The 3Ps…

7. • Change – Will it be different..?
• Risk – Will it be dangerous..?
• Failure – Will it hold me back..?
People…

8. • Which people..?
People…

9. • Political – Do I agree with it..?
• Economic – Can I afford it..?
• Social – How do I look..?
• Technological – Can I cope with it..?
PEST…

10. • Which PEST..?
People…

11. • Event – I resisted change…
• Trend – I keep resisting change…
• Pattern – I resist change then accept it, in phases…
Patterns…

12. • Which change..?
People…

13. People, PEST and Patterns
can be Barriers
– or Enablers
The 3Ps…

14. The antidote – the 3Cs…

15. John Mark Williams
Agile Business Consortium
jw@agilebusiness.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwglobal/
www.agilebusiness.org