The Organizational Personality Framework for Internal Auditors

Agility is a question of culture

 

 

 Why 

 

Agility is more than methodologies, practices, meetings, and user stories. Agility requires a certain type of mindset, characterized by collaboration, interactions, speed, individuals, self-organization, and reflection. Truly implementing agile means that it has to become a part of your corporate culture.

 

• "An agile transformation can deliver great value, but becoming agile isn't easy. It requires big changes in culture, values, and behaviors. It means a rapid evolution of the enterprise." Boston Consulting Group, BCG on agile, November 2018

 

• "You can't buy Agile. Becoming a resilient organization and adapting to an Agile way of working requires a shift in mindset and culture. People need to communicate differently; collaboration between teams will change; and managers will have to become Agile leaders." www.agile42.com​​

 

Whether we are talking about corporate culture, the agile mindset, the digital mindset, the organization's ability to innovate, or the workplace culture expected by the young workforce, from a PBA® perspective these evaluation topics are all interrelated, as illustrated in this quote:

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 "Agile organizations appear to be powerful machines for innovation and learning." 

McKinsey quarterly, Why agility pays, December 2015

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 How 

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 The PBA® definition of an agile mindset: Individuals, teams, and organizations with an agile mindset can recruit personality systems that are optimally suited to perform the various tasks they encounter. 

 

An agile mindset is connected to the self-steering competencies of individuals, teams, and organizations, and to personality system connections that include the extension memory.

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PBA®​​

• Decomposes the term "agile mindset" into its function analytical components 

• Compares and contrasts the organization's current thinking and behavior preferences with the function analytical components that foster an agile mindset

• Provides fine-grained insights into the organization's agile mindset at an individual, group, and organizational levels

 

More about the PBA® characteristics.​​​

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PBA® is a new 360° degree testing & thinking grid to evaluate human factors - across the organization

 

• We want to know more about the mindset expressed in the agile manifesto and its principles

• We want to understand the key features of an agile mindset

• We want to evaluate the agile mindset

• We want to become a world-class internal audit function

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