Blue Mine Group becomes Agile Strategy Institute and launches Agile Strategy Alliance

We are delighted to announce that from June 1, 2011, Blue Mine Group will become the Agile Strategy Institute (www.AgileStrategyInstitute.com), a new corporate name that better matches our mission of helping companies maximize value through learning and implementing agile strategy. We are also excited to launch the Agile Strategy Alliance, a network of business executives, board members and strategy professionals focused on advancing the state of the art in strategy thinking and practice through the principles, frameworks and tools of agile strategy. Finally, we are honored to welcome our new Advisory Board Neville Billimoria, Rick Cooper, Stephen Flaim, Henk Hanselaar, Richard Lawrence and Pertti Visuri.

These exciting transitions reflect the rapidly growing interest amongst company leaders in agile strategy, a powerful new approach to designing companies for maximum value in today’s open markets. "By implementing agile strategy in The Ken Blanchard Companies, we have created a powerful foundation for increasing the value we deliver to our customers, employees, partners and other stakeholders. Building a portfolio of business models enabled by central platforms will enable us to better meet the needs of our diverse customer groups, and will improve both our short-term performance and long-term organizational vitality" said Tom McKee, Chief Executive Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leadership development organization headquartered in Escondido, California.