Your path to business agility
As companies strive to differentiate and disrupt their markets, there’s a surge in digitalization and transformation initiatives. Unfortunately, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their intended outcomes. Learn more about how to survive and thrive in the digital age.
Cloud & Cognitive Services (C&CS) is a division of IBM that brings together IBM’s software platforms and solutions, enabling hybrid cloud services delivery that helps clients predict, automate, secure, and modernize their business. From an operations perspective, C&CS helps IBM’s services business modernize, simplify, automate, and accelerate quote to cash (Q2C). However, one of the...
There’s no question that the last few years have had a tumultuous effect on businesses worldwide. Economic stimulus efforts, a global pandemic, global tensions and geopolitical issues, societal unrest – all of those events have altered how organizations bring their products, goods, and services to market. Many companies have responded to this era of intense...
How can businesses stay relevant, prepare for future change, and survive in our rapidly changing world? Through transformation. Understanding the three different types of business transformation will help you choose the right transformation for your organization. Although business transformation is complex, its impact isn’t: Research from McKinsey clearly shows that the more transformation actions a...
As the world grows more and more digital, customers across every industry are expecting digital-first, timely assistance and support. As shown in this digital transformation in banking case study roundup, all businesses — including banks — have been forced to change and evolve with the times. Digital transformation isn’t so much optional as it is...
Digital transformations often start with some common rules of thumb: “Start small.” “Lift and shift workloads to the Cloud.” “Create a proof of concept for your Agile initiatives, and then scale.” But in one of my favorite talks from DOES Europe 2022, Pieter Jordaan, CTO at TUI Group, describes how they accelerated their digital transformation...
Our recently published Project to Product Maturity Assessment gives organizations a framework to assess the progress of this massive undertaking. By answering seven easy multiple-choice questions, they find out where they are in their journey and get recommendations on how to advance. As we started collecting responses, we realized how lucky we are to have...
In some ways, the past few years have felt like an eternity – in others, it seems like we were just ringing in 2020 full of anticipation and hope. One thing has become clear for organizations in this pandemic era – change is hard, and if you don’t have a transformation plan, you’re more likely...
How do you know whether your Agile transformation is on the right track, or heading in the right direction? Understanding Agile transformation metrics for executives is key to proving the ROI of your Agile transformation. Making the switch from measuring outputs to measuring outcomes can make it difficult to know exactly what you should be...
When KPMG asked CEOs how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their digital transformation plans, 74 percent said it accelerated the digitization of operations and the creation of a next-generation operating model by months, if not years. Yet for some organizations, the initial hustle to transform can get bogged down by obstacles throughout the company. What are...
It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. But it’s not always easy to identify them. Blind spots are often shrouded in good intentions. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. The trick is knowing the difference between blind spots and healthy Agile practices. In this blog post, you’ll learn about five common Agile transformation blind spots...
