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Consider the insurance company that started on the path of lean startup and put forth a vision of a complete lean agile transformation. When middle management had to articulate requirements for a new policy administration system, they reverted to recreating the system already in place: a legacy system that was slow, often requiring manual processes, and in no way supported the transformational vision. Later in this chapter I share the concept of an agile open space to create, refine, and communicate a vision among many participants; I learned the hard way that vision sessions that occur in an offsite and include a small group of senior stakeholders rarely succeed.
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Nir, M. (2018). Define and Communicate the Mission and Vision. In: The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3537-9_3
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