Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I invited several experts to my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers to discuss change management, easing adoptions, and minimizing the productivity dip. Participants heard a change management playbook.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 11, 2024

A couple of years ago, I led an agile transformation program for a major hospital system. Their vision statement was to pilot process changes and new technologies to improve patient experiences while simplifying work for doctors, nurses, and administrators.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A few of these benefits include more flexibility within the data center, closer integration with cloud systems and vendors and easier change management when changes are needed within the data center. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled The Agile Data Center that touches on the subject of the agility in the data center.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

So you’ve tried agile, but it didn’t deliver what you hoped for. Going agile” is not easy. Agile does […] Maybe you faced resistance from employees, or you weren’t able to increase the speed of innovation efforts, or the cost savings that you hoped for did not materialize.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 25, 2021

Struggling to move beyond agile and scale innovation across your organization? Learn how establishing new practices can help.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2019

Digital leaders tell us that they often struggle to find the right people with the right skills, and competition for elite talent is fierce. As their firms become more advanced in their digital journeys — embracing new technology and evolving their business models — the skills and talent they need to execute on that become […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

DevOps delivers speed and agility to the development process. The challenge some companies face, however, is the change management of the structured approach for handling alterations within a development cycle. Change management brings consistency to DevOps. But it’s not easy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Before you read the rest of this post, I want you to think through your approach to change management. You're rolling out new technology to a small department and considering how to gain adoption and guide people from old to the new process. When are you starting the dialog with people in the department?

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Forrester IT

JULY 20, 2020

Using value stream management (VSM) tools, AD&D leaders gain better insight into their organization’s processes […]. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders focusing on velocity and cadence are finding there’s more to software delivery than going fast.

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Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2017

Adapt agile development and planning processes to physical product development. Adaptation and execution on these initiatives will be difficult requiring executive buy in, core shifts to company cultures, partnership with services firms, reskilling, and change management initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We identify the right technologies and tools, partner with our diverse ecosystem, powered by our innovation and agile delivery methodologies to help customers achieve business agility, stay competitive, capitalize on blue ocean opportunities and increase market share. TMF 655 - Change Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

Change management Helping workers understand what AI can do for them will be tricky, though, as they want to feel that AI is augmenting their work, and not just replacing the enjoyable parts, BCG found. “The This is a massive number,” Bellefonds said. “We We really have to address this upskilling issue.”

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We identify the right technologies and tools, partner with our diverse ecosystem, powered by our innovation and agile delivery methodologies to help customers achieve business agility, stay competitive, capitalize on blue ocean opportunities and increase market share. TMF 655 - Change Management.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 1, 2021

The ability to manage these adoption curves will dictate that pace, and therefore the nature and composition of how organizations scale. This is organizational change management. New technology creates adoption curves, and these curves regulate the pace of an organization generating future value. It is […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whenever an organization implements a new process, updates an existing process, deploys new technology, or fine-tunes services, its leaders must be mindful that even a simple change to a single process can start a domino effect, introducing issues in a range of other processes that must also be addressed. AIM Change Management Certification.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 2, 2017

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of changes, and the purpose of change. Change Management is no longer just a few business initiatives, but an ongoing digital capability which enables the strategy implementation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 18, 2020

After I posted my last 5 Minutes with @NYIke video on the #1 Reason Why Digital Transformation fail, a small discussion ensued on LinkedIn about transformation and change management. And regardless of what we call it, how can leaders help the resulting change management easier for employees and less difficult for leaders?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2013

By Bob Gourley Process Live is part of Software AG Live, a cloud-based suite unifying process improvement, IT portfolio management, agile application development and application integration. Process Live is built on ARIS technology which has shaped the business process management discipline over the last 20 years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of succumbing to the pressure, CIOs should consider collaborative approaches: Empower and inspire agile teams by avoiding rigid delivery roadmaps, highlighting what performance improvement areas are worth focusing on, and giving teams time to reset after major releases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We decided that change, agility, and value would be key to put people at the center of the transformation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Key predictions include the rise of agentic AI, increased focus on data privacy, and the need for effective change management to support innovation and employee engagement.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many professionals transition to product management from various fields like DevOps, data science, and marketing. This role requires new skills in market research, stakeholder engagement, and change management.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2013

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes. Hafez adds that most modernization projects typically fail due to a lack of a realistic expectations, defined requirements, and ineffective change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. High performance back then generally focused on delivery — a contrast to previous generations of IT where business and IT alignment was an issue, and teams struggled to deliver with waterfall project management practices.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 6, 2015

They key for ensuring a successful transformation of any kind is proper change management. Whether that transformation is a digital transformation or the ‘next’ transformation to come along, if you can’t implement a well managed and properly planned change management project, your transformation project will fail.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 8, 2021

My previous blog noted that “technology has been modernized separately, to a meaningful degree, from the people and processes interacting with that technology.” This phenomenon has been driven primarily from the outdated managerial approach that the application of technology simply supports the efficiency of a given product or service.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 1, 2024

But Digital Trailblazers know that following any major deployment comes the harder parts of leading change management programs to increase adoption, capturing end-user feedback, and

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 1, 2024

Modern Application Development Services Defined Clients want more autonomy to better control their own innovation and development capabilities to build modern and up-to-date custom applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. There’s often ambition to address all or most problems, but that can leave the system user behind.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2015

While there are many advantages to SAAS over internally managed systems, what attracts me most to SAAS is that: The internal technology team can focus on the success of the business and not on technology operation and management. Other reasons for embracing SAAS include: Agility. Configuration management.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 2, 2021

An innovative management culture provides a strong purpose, creates diverse and cross-functional teams, focuses on the customer as the center of business activity, and embraces transparent communication with the organization.

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