Business agility is essential for organizations looking to succeed in today's fast-paced and ever-changing business environment. It enables businesses to respond quickly to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies.
With business agility, organizations can improve their decision-making, increase their innovation, and reduce time-to-market for new products and services. By adopting agile practices, businesses can become more customer-focused, collaborate better across teams, and continuously improve their processes.
Organizations facing intense, globalized competition can differentiate themselves through increased customer focus, quality and innovation. Once the need for change is well defined and established within the company, the focus should shift towards a continuous flow of value to stay relevant. Deloitte's Business Agility Offering is all about future-proofing an organization. We help organizations to thrive in the age of Digital.
Enter Agile
Agile is a way of working that emphasizes iterative planning and delivery. It aims to deliver value to customers early and often, and is specifically designed to deal with complexity in unpredictable environments. From its roots in product and software development, Agile is now spreading rapidly across industries.
Scaling Agile beyond individual projects and programs to work throughout the enterprise is challenging. Highly complex business and regulatory environments, legacy systems and bureaucratic, siloed organizational structures are as much of a hindrance to embedding Agile as they are to daily operations. Overcoming these necessitates looking across the entire organization - from technology to people, processes and governance.
Agile is not easy, and it does not happen overnight. That said, when executed correctly, it is proven to make the inevitability of change not only manageable but rewarding as well.
Executing an enterprise level transformation or scaling Agile to a program or portfolio level requires a holistic approach that considers all aspects of an operating model as well as the organization’s culture, capabilities and context. A one-size-fits-all approach is simply not sufficient.
At Deloitte, we specialize in empowering businesses to achieve business agility through our offered services. With our extensive experience in agile transformation, we offer support to clients at various stages of their journey.
This includes helping organizations adopt Lean Portfolio Management, providing guidance in Value Stream mapping, assuming Agile Roles to support continuous agile delivery, and coaching leaders and teams in adopting Agile Ways of Working. Our expertise covers every aspect of agile transformation, ensuring that organizations receive the guidance they need to thrive and excel in business agility.
An organization’s next steps depend on the current stage in the Business Agility Spectrum and where the organization wants to be in the future.
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