The Internal Signals of a Business
Losing its Competitive Edge
⚠️ DELAYED DECISIONS
⚠️ MISALIGNED INITIATIVES
⚠️ POOR EXECUTION
The Counterintuitive Truths About Business Performance
🔷 Preventing losses is the prerequisite for improving business performance.
🔷 Three sources of velocity losses systematically destroy competitive advantage.
Velocity Loss Due to Uncertainty
Inaction and Delayed Decisions
Your business is frozen-in-place and not moving while competitors capture emerging opportunities .
WARNING SIGNALS
⚠️ You don’t know what direction to go
⚠️ Analysis paralysis
⚠️ Missing signals of landscape change
⚠️ Competitors moving faster than you are
Velocity Loss Due to Risk
Misaligned Initiatives from Taking the Wrong Action
You are busy but not advancing while high value opportunities go elsewhere.
WARNING SIGNALS
⚠️ The risk of making the wrong moves paralyzes decisions
⚠️ Only solving low-magnitude problems
⚠️ Lacking capability for complex changes
⚠️ Competitors capturing higher value opportunities
Velocity Loss Due to Inability
Poor Execution Causing Ineffective Action
Development takes too long, deployment stumbles, and solutions have insufficient market impact.
WARNING SIGNALS
⚠️ Changes take too long to implement
⚠️ Poor execution and business disruption
⚠️ New solutions cost too much
⚠️ Insufficient demand, availability, and adoption deliver poor ROI
Taking the Brakes off the “Speed Killers”
Disabling the brakes by punching the accelerators.
STRATEGIC BLINDNESS
“We don’t know where we want our business to go, what to change, or how fast to move.”
THE SENSING ACCELERATOR
Build superior landscape Intelligence to systematically identify SITUATIONS-WORTH-CHANGING before competitors recognize opportunities
INADEQUATE CAPABILITY
“We lack the necessary capability to develop high-impact solutions and implement complex change effectively”
THE ADAPTING ACCELERATOR
Target PROBLEMS-WORTH-SOLVING, rapidly adapting organizational capabilities to match change complexity.
EXECUTION BREAKDOWNS
“Our execution is too slow, too costly, and too disruptive to deliver the desired business impact”
THE INNOVATION ACCELERATOR
Master rapid, reliable implementation of SOLUTIONS-WORTH-DEVELOPING, systematically engaging skills, resources, and tools to increase speed while reducing risk.
The Challenges
The Business Performance Acceleration Framework overcomes three interconnected challenges.
The Landscape Intelligence Challenge
Making Sense of the Business Landscape
Change Complexity vs Capability Challenge
Closing the Gap between Change Complexity vs Organizational Capability
Execution and Change Implementation Challenge
Increasing the speed of Execution, Problem Solving, and Implementing Change
The Agile Innovating™ Business Performance Accelerators
Sensing –
The Sensemaking Practice
🔹 Status Quo Model
🔹 Landscape Compass
🔹 Situation Honeycomb
🔹 Situations-Worth-Changing
🔹 The Change Roadmap
Adapting –
The Adaptive Capability Practice
🔹 Problems-Worth-Solving Vortex
🔹 The Problem/Solution Duality
🔹 Landscape Calibration
🔹 Change Complexity vs Organizational Capability Heat Map
Executing –
The Innovation Practice
🔹 Innovation Swiss Army Knife
🔹 Solutions-Worth-Developing
🔹 Discovery Driven Planning
🔹 Balanced Scorecard
🔹 Adoption Ladder
Situational Analysis – The “Speed Killer” Assessment
Assessing the business velocity impact of the three “Speed Killers”.