Upcoming Webinar | Beyond SAFe & Scrum: How to Align Executive Strategy With Enterprise Execution
Host: Wolfgang Richter
Date: October 29, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. UTC
You've got the frameworks. So why isn't the whole organization moving?
Your teams run scrum. You scale with SAFe, LeSS, or something close to it. You've invested real time and budget in project, program, and portfolio management. And yet the same frustrations keep showing up: strategic goals slip, teams burn out, priorities compete for the same people, and local wins never quite add up to organizational progress.
Here's the honest truth: no single framework gives you a complete operating model for the whole organization. Each one solves a specific problem brilliantly. But stitching them into one coherent way of working? That part gets left to you. And that gap, the space between the frameworks, is exactly where strategy and execution drift apart.
This session introduces the missing link.
A practical model that connects strategy, governance, and execution
Join Wolfgang Richter for a candid, practical look at how to bring your frameworks together instead of running them in parallel. You'll see how proven ideas like Goal Setting Theory, Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM), the Viable System Model (VSM), the Theory of Constraints (TOC/Critical Chain), and agile empirical learning combine into one management model that aligns strategy, governance, execution, and continuous learning.
At the center of it all is the Enterprise Operating Stack, a way to steer performance across five connected layers:
- Why are we doing this? (Goals & Direction)
- Who makes decisions? (Governance)
- How do we steer initiatives and flow? (Execution)
- How do teams learn and collaborate? (Empirical Delivery)
- How do we measure progress? (Transparency & Feedback)
When these five layers work together, strategy stops getting lost on its way to the teams doing the work.
Five principles that build high-performing organizations
Great operating models rest on clear principles. In this session, you'll explore the five that separate organizations that merely stay busy from those that consistently deliver on their goals:
- Goals before Methods
- Outcomes before Activities
- System before Local Optimization
- Flow before Utilization
- Learning before Prediction
These aren't abstract ideas. They're practical lenses you can use to spot where your own organization optimizes the parts while the whole falls short.
Meet GDOM: the Goal-Directed Organization Model
Finally, Wolfgang will share why he and his collaborators developed GDOM, the Goal-Directed Organization Model.
While most frameworks optimize individual pieces of an organization, GDOM optimizes the coherence of the entire system around shared goals. It supplies the operating logic that connects leadership, governance, portfolios, teams, and daily work into one integrated approach. It answers the question so many leaders and practitioners are quietly wrestling with:
"How do we align people, projects, products, and the organization around the same goals?"
GDOM gives you that operating system, helping you build an organization that's goal-directed, learning, adaptive, and viable in an increasingly complex world.
Who this webinar is for
If your organization is in the middle of an agile transformation, or juggling several frameworks at once, this session was built for you. It's especially valuable if you're:
- A mid-career professional helping your organization connect strategy to execution
- A scrum master, product owner, or delivery lead ready to scale beyond a single team
- An agile coach or consultant looking to bring clients a more complete operating model
- A practitioner who wants to turn framework knowledge into real organizational results
You'll leave with language, principles, and a model you can take straight back to your teams and your leadership.
What you'll take away
- A clear view of why no single framework completes the organizational picture, and what to do about it
- The Enterprise Operating Stack and how its five layers connect strategy to daily work
- Five operating principles that drive high-performing, goal-directed organizations
- An introduction to GDOM and how it aligns people, projects, products, and the organization around shared goals
Save your seat today and take a practical step toward aligning strategy with execution across your whole organization. Registration takes less than a minute.