Tag: Organizational Agility

The Reality Check Worldwide spending on digital transformation is forecast to reach almost $4 trillion by 2027, but most organizations struggle to realize business value and sustainable change. The gap between technology’s potential and organizational reality grows wider each day. Martec’s Law, formulated by Scott Brinker, illustrates this fundamental challenge: Technology changes at an exponential […]

In response to CFOs demanding returns on technology investments, CTOs must measure software development productivity across four dimensions—business value, speed to market, delivery reliability, and team health—to effectively demonstrate how their teams create measurable impact and business growth.

Software development teams have always struggled to deliver features within the timeframe that businesses and customers expect. A recent BCG study found that over a third of respondents’ internal software development projects were delayed. Late delivery delays ROI and frustrates everyone involved. Organizations face numerous challenges when accelerating software delivery, but one stands out for its outsized […]

Dive deep into individual experiences beyond data metrics to uncover blindspots and build lasting trust by focusing on customer needs – a compelling case study on embracing change while preserving core values.

With AI’s rapid evolution, boards face multi-faceted risks requiring diverse oversight, technical expertise, agile risk-mitigation, clear values guiding deployment, and robust cybersecurity – proactively managing uncertainties while capturing AI’s transformative potential.

Unlocking innovation demands aligning talent strategy with organizational aspirations; an oil company’s overlooked compensation model discouraged risk-taking, undermining its transformation goals until leadership revised employee stock rewards.

In my conversations with hundreds of enterprise executives worldwide, I have found that they like the idea of moving fast and innovating but find it difficult to accomplish within their corporate legacy and constraints. Innovating quickly is especially urgent in light of generative AI’s potential. But to increase innovation, you need to build a culture […]

Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. —Jeff Bezos, Executive Chairman of Amazon Traditional organizations focus on optimizing efficiency, trying to specialize and maximize the use […]

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. —Tim Harford, Economist Read any contemporary article on organisations and within the first few sentences the word, “agile” appears at least once. Some articles suggest achieving agility with a new target operating model (TOM), […]

Many companies have found that a cloud center of excellence (CCOE) can accelerate their migrations to the cloud and broader digital transformations. These CCOEs take many forms, which is appropriate because each company has unique challenges to overcome. Nevertheless there are certain patterns and antipatterns for using a CCOE. In this blog post, I’ll try […]