Características
No one is able to stop time and change, but we all have the potential ability to plan what we are going to do with it. One of my teachers used to say that we become who we are based on how we manage and use time and change. All changes affect organizations, since they are systems composed of subsystems and, as Adizes states, when changes occur the subsystems do not transform synchronously: some subsystems change faster than others and this generates problems that are the result of disintegration. Organizational agility has to do, precisely, with a company’s ability to adapt to the changes that occur over time, so that this characteristic, which has always been relevant, becomes essential as the degree and speed of change increases.
A strategy is a set of assumptions about cause and effect relationships.2 In other words, every strategy implicitly assumes that if certain actions are carried
out, we will be able to obtain certain results. But these effects or results, of course, also depend on the circumstances, i.e. the environment. Therefore, in changing environments it is very difficult to carry out strategic planning in the traditional style, which consists of defining in advance the whole set of actions
that the organization must carry out and then focusing on the execution of these actions. Strategic planning in a changing world requires breaking our own mental paradigms and having conceptual frameworks specifically designed for an agile world. Additionally, it is necessary to integrate. The fact that some people have focused on leadership, others on organizational change, others on agile frameworks, etc., has caused these topics to be taught and implemented separately, when organizations require the different aspects to work together.
-Antonio de los Campos
Autores
Antonio de los Campos was born in 1979 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He holds a degree in Economics from Universidad de la República (Uruguay), a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from the School of Business of the University of Wisconsin (USA), and an International Diploma in Business from the
University of Cambridge-International Examination. He completed the Managing Organizational Change Executive Development Program at Michigan State University Business School (USA) and holds PMP and Scrum Master certifications.
He is the founder of Project Management Latin America (PMLA). He has developed vast experience as a Marketing and Strategic Planning Manager in regional and global organizations, where he led critical organizational change processes. He is co-author of the books Lunes 08:30. A bridge between the theory and practice of project management and Kanban: Essential Guide to Understanding and Implementing and author of Leading Organizational Change in an Agile World. He has written numerous articles for prestigious national and international publications and has given lectures in different Latin American countries.
Testimonios
This book written by Antonio de los Campos provides us with current, practical and useful content to carry out the strategic planning of our organizations in changing environments.
Leonor Melo de Velasco
Founder and president of the Board of Directors
of the Mundo Mujer Business Group and
emeritus director of Banco Mundo Mujer
Strategic Planning in an Agile World, by Antonio de los Campos, provides the reader, novice and seasoned expert alike, the chance to improve their understanding of the field through a look into historical examples and how the lessons learned from the past have shaped strategic planning as we know it today.
Christopher R. Biehl
Associate director
Programs for International Partnerships
Office of Global Engagement
University of Illinois Chicago
Antonio de los Campos book connects strategy with agility and change management very well. I think the concepts presented here are useful for teachers, students, and executives.
Steve Sauerwald, Ph.D.
Management Professor
Bauer College of Business
University of Houston
I congratulate Antonio de los Campos for this timely book, which shows that in these fluid and changing times in which we live in, the need to plan is not eliminated, quite the contrary, but this process must be carried forward following a framework that allows us to adapt to these dynamics.
Miguel Montes
President of Sogeviso,
advisor at Sabadell Digital,
advisor of Libertad Servicios Financieros
and vice president of Ocean Ecostructures
Member of the Board of Directors of ESADE Alumni
