Agile Lean

You are the newly appointed director of the Agile County Airport System. The characteristics of your organization include:

• It is a Local Government Department
• Consists of 4 Airports – International, Mather, Executive, Franklin Field
• There are 400 employees at all four airports
• The airport board of directors has decided to move to an Agile Lean process for all projects.

You quickly recognize that you need to undertake a cultural transformation in order for the Agile Lean process to take hold.  The current organization has the following culture characteristics:

• No Mission Statement
• No Sense of Direction
• Militaristic/Top-Down Leadership Model
• No Accountability
• No Communication
• Staff focused on Empire Building
• Organization Viewed Itself as Regulators
• Focused on catching people doing something wrong
• Publicly Belittled
• Focus on “Turf”
• Process Oriented
• Problem Oriented
• Growth Without a Long-Term Plan
• Employees Not Engaged
• Staff consists mostly of generalists

The board of directors has asked you to prepare an overview presentation for their next meeting on your ideas for a organizational culture transformation plan.  To complete this assignment you are to design a 5 to 10 slide PowerPoint presentation with notes, that addresses the following key elements:

• What makes up organizational culture?
• What do you see as the benefits of a culture transformation
• What would your Culture Transformation Plan consist of? Describe the high level steps you would take to accomplish this transformation.
• What questions would you ask to help in defining a new culture?
• What characteristics would you envision the “new” organizational culture to exhibit? Develop a list based upon the current organizational culture