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Agile leadership is essential if an organisation is to effect true agile business change.

An introduction to a key business agility practice

Over the last three decades, I’ve expended an inordinate amount of my professional life grappling with complexity and complicatedness. Striving to render the complex less complicated, make the complicated simpler, and eliminate the unnecessary.

This blog is based on our event: Beyond Budgeting – Business agility in practice. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘budget’? Something strict and inflexible – something that you MUST stick to if you are to succeed? In its adjectival form, ‘budget’ means ‘inexpensive’— a budget holiday for example. But what is the true cost of putting traditional organisational budgeting processes on a pedestal?