The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise : Surviving, Adapting, and Thriving in a VUCA World

Despite spending enormous sums on technology and improvement methods, most businesses are under siege. The inability to drive adaptation to an increasingly more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (“VUCA”) set of circumstances has resulted in an unprecedented rate of failure across organizations of all shapes and sizes. Worse yet, the necessary component to break the cycle is being distorted by antiquated models, methods, rules, and tools held over from decades past. Industry is stuck in a rut, and that rut is getting deeper and deeper.

Where does common sense turn into common nonsense in organizations? Today, companies lack an effective framework to consistently apply and integrate common sense principles at ALL levels (strategic, tactical, and operational).

Features

• The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise:
• Reveals a new management framework rooted in science, mathematics, economics and most importantly, common sense.
• Enables an unprecedented level of visibility across resources, products, levels and time ranges to quickly and effectively produce the relevant information that companies are desperately seeking.
• Is the pre-requisite for surviving and thriving in the VUCA world. That new framework is called the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise (DDAE) model.

The DDAE model will not be embraced by everyone, as it challenges conventional practice and systems. Unfortunately, many of those people and organizations are living on borrowed time. So, is your organization ready for something new?
 

Introduction
Definitions in This Book
About the Authors
About the Demand Driven Institute
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : Don’t Be a Dodo
Chapter 2 : The Prerequisites for Relevant Information
Chapter 3 : The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise Model
Chapter 4 : The Demand Driven Operating Model
Chapter 5 : Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning
Chapter 6 : Adaptive Sales and Operations Planning
Chapter 7 : Closing the Loop with the DDAE Model
Chapter 8 : The DDAE Model Development Path

Appendix A : Skill Buffers: The Missing Links
Appendix B : Adaptive Systemic Thinking
Notes
Index