In the language of sociotechnical organization design, every organization is a composite of the technical system by which it does its work, and the social system by which it governs the conduct of its work. In other words, every organization is the product of its processes and its culture. The degree of an organization’s agility, then, is the product of the agility of its processes and the agility of its culture. In fact, experience teaches us that it is the organization’s culture that is the key to its agility. Yet, while designing and maintaining agile processes is an engineering discipline that is well understood, designing and maintaining an agile culture is a leadership discipline that is not well understood. 

This presentation will introduce field-tested models to better understand:

• What an organizational culture is.
• How it fits into the organizational ecosystem, diagnose its current state and design a desired state.
• The forces that, by design or by default, influence the reinforcement of its current state or its movement toward some future state.

Agenda

5:00 Volunteer Fair (5:00-7:00pm) 
5:00 Career Networking Group
5:30 Practitioner Communities 
6:00 New Member Orientation
6:30 Dinner
7:15 Webstream broadcast begins 
7:20 PMI-MN Chapter Business / Intros
7:30 Presentations
8:20 Q & A

Reservations by 2/6/17:
PMI members $27, non-members $37
Partners: PMI members $25, non-members $35

Reservations from 2/7/2017-2/20/2017:
PMI-MN members $32, non-members $42
Partners: PMI members $30, non-members $40

Reservations for Speaker Only:
PMI-MN members $15, non-members $25
Partners: Members $14, non-members $23
Speaker Only Walk-ins: $25

LIVE Webstream - Register by 2/20/2017:
PMI-MN members $20, non-members $30
Partner discount does not apply

A Fortune 250 executive and intrapreneur, entrepreneur and small business owner, consultant, author and speaker, Jim is a pioneer and practicing authority on leading the creation and operation of an agile organization—his experience enables him to speak authoritatively to both theory and pragmatic issues. 

Jim is a recipient of Medtronic’s Wallin Leadership Award and Cowles Media’s President’s Award (each their company’s highest leadership award). He is the author of Windward Leadership: Taking Your Organization into the Prevailing Winds on Political Seas. And he is a co-founder and principal consultant at agilityIRL, providing agile-based, reality-driven lessons for creating and running the kind of work environment needed to change the world!