If you are running a business today, you probably incorporate digital elements in your products and services. At the very least, you employ digital technology in the operation of your business. It’s likely that you have adopted an Agile framework and possibly even DevOps processes. It’s also likely that you are not getting the productivity boost from it that you should. Continue reading
The ability of machines to communicate—and their increasing intelligence—is an exponentially accelerating trend spanning many industries. This technology trend is not slowing down in any way, and the more it is adopted, the more it will continue to accelerate, transforming our personal, professional, and social lives. Continue reading
If your business is going to survive, you must be able to read and react to changes in your markets and continuously improve your competitive position. It’s more important now than it’s ever been.
SWOT is a model often employed to characterize a company’s competitive position in terms of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. If a competitor creates a new offering that you can’t match, that’s a weakness. If you have one that they can’t match, it’s a strength. Continue reading
In the previous article we discussed Waterfall, WaterScrumFall, big-A Agile and business agility. Dissonance abounds among organizations struggling to transition their approaches to building solutions and maintaining their existing legacy infrastructures while remaking how they evolve themselves. In attempting to navigate this they often adopt approaches that are destined not to really get them where they need to be. Continue reading
We should all be aware by now that business agility is the primary enabler for companies seeking sustainability. In the past, companies would evolve in chunks, a project at a time. The costs and risks of implementing change, whether system-related or otherwise, were large, so designing and planning upfront (the Waterfall approach) was applied to create predictability and moderate risks. Continue reading