Organizational Traction or Portfolio Agility?
Organizational traction and portfolio agility are the same path. Chase either one and you end up managing a portfolio of investments with flow-based thinking.
Click image to open full size Organizational traction and portfolio agility converge
Should you focus on mastering organizational traction or on establishing portfolio agility? In practice, the paths converge. Mastering organizational traction eventually means realizing you have a portfolio of investments you are managing, whether or not you call it a portfolio.
The difference is scope. Portfolio agility often starts in the product and technology world. Organizational traction extends beyond that. It intercepts business initiatives before they become mandates for the technology organization, and it also manages non-digital developmental work. Yes, some of that still exists.
When people ask which email course they should take, Mastering Organizational Traction or Product-oriented Portfolio Agility, I ask about context.
If they are a product or technology leader trying to apply a product operating model in a multi-product context, I suggest the Product-Oriented Portfolio Agility Trail Map. If they are a chief of staff, CXO, or product/technology leader working through a scaling inflection point, Mastering Organization Traction is often the better starting point.
If you want help deciding where to start, see Portfolio Agility and Create a Business-level Operating System with Agility.
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