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In any organizational change, people are the most critical players in making that change happen. If you want to increase…

Implementing an agile operating model can be a game-changer for organizations, transforming processes ranging from decision-making to product development. Some of the benefits of agile — like quicker market feedback — are well-known, but others are less so. Here are 10 key benefits.

People tend to be resistant to big changes, so transforming your organization’s learning culture is going to require a strategic approach.

A starter-pack is essentially a roadmap-like document that provides people with a view of your agile initiative’s big picture. It helps them to understand what the initiative entails, the primary drivers and the specific agile end goals you’re aiming to achieve. When designed properly, a starter-pack has the power to help your organization save time and money.

The ability to articulate and share goals of projects of an agile operating model implementation makes it easier to determine your organization’s driving motivations and keeps your teams focused on priorities. Stating your goals at the start of the transformation also helps you to better evaluate success along the way.

Using Agile principles to prioritize business projects helps to make your product or service development process both more effective and more efficient, saving your organization time, and protecting or even generating revenue. We outline ways to overcome obstacles you might encounter when trying to prioritize and explain what project leaders should do to help.

In business, maintaining good relationships means everything. If you’re burning bridges with every transaction, even your vendors are going to become opponents instead of allies. Strong working relationships between suppliers and customers are entirely possible, but it takes trust and transparency on both sides.

Engaging people at all levels is essential for making the switch to an agile operating model. In order for a cultural transformation to occur in the workplace, executive sponsors need to be champions, and employees should be educated on why the change is taking place. There are eight key ways to ensure that company stakeholders are engaged from the outset.

Creating lasting change in the way people approach their work takes time. Implementing an agile operating model requires adaptability and full participation in order to achieve a cultural shift within an organization. We outline the steps your company can expect in the journey and offer tips for achieving the best business outcomes.

As agile operating models increase in popularity, there’s a tendency to focus on Scrum for managing software development. However, that focus is too narrow. There are three key ways an agile operating model can improve your business.

Working with an IT supplier (or any other supplier critical to your success) that you can trust is always important. In the case where a company is changing to a more agile delivery approach, knowing your IT supplier is investing in its own team’s learning and operating approaches to better understand how to collaboratively build great software products and services is a must. There are three keys to finding an IT supplier that aligns with your goals.

The term “agile operating model” generally brings software development or high-tech engineering processes to mind, but every area of an organization can benefit from the key concepts of streamlined decision-making and customer-centric product or service development. Six areas in particular can benefit the most by focusing on the outcomes of increasing value, improving flow and advancing quality.

Agile operating models have generated a lot of buzz in the business world in recent years, particularly in markets that…

Implementing an agile operating model offers organizations a lifeline by improving their prioritization and accelerating their decision-making process. The end…

This article is for those of us who are responsible running a digital transformation program. It focuses on a couple…