Continuing to talk about how you can develop digital products that truly deliver value and stand out in the market, in addition to understanding your company’s current landscape, it’s important to understand what your organization needs go through changes in structure, processes and culture.

In this article, we’ll learn more about the pillars that need to go through a journey of change to create digital services and products in a more agile and innovative way.

 

The pillars of agile transformation

Here at Agile.Inc, we believe there are 5 areas in organizations that need to evolve, have an agile culture, a much more digital mindset, to truly create products and services that meet the needs needs of users these days.

These 5 pillars are: Culture, Internal Capabilities, Structure and Governance, People and Business Models.

To be truly agile and digital, it’s important to ensure continuity and ownership of change processes at all levels of the company. Check out the 5 pillars of agile transformation below:

 

Culture

As mentioned above, it is very important that there is a change in the organization’s culture, as these are one of the main areas that show whether a company is undergoing a digital transformation. After all, it all boils down to a change of culture and mindset.

In this pillar, the main changes we noticed are:

• Really put the customer at the center of your business;
• Having a culture of applied innovation;
• Empowering teams, but with high alignment;
• Create a culture of “not being afraid of failure” and
• be more transparent in actions, decisions and plans

 

Internal Capabilities

The teams in your company will start solving more complex issues, so they will need to have new skills and be able to follow the transformation.

It is important that the professionals in your organization:

• Know how to work with new technologies (Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning, among others);</ read>
• Have agility in product development,
• Have lean management in product design;
• Make use of design strategically.

These are some of the skills professionals need to develop to be more digital, depending on the context of each business.

 

Structure and Governance

How is your company organized? The way your company’s structure and governance is composed shows whether it is still in a traditional or digital paradigm.

To find this out, you need to raise some questions, such as:

• How are the areas of the company structured?
• How to break the organization’s silos?
• How is the budget defined?
• How are initiatives prioritized?
• How is the work done in a transparent way?
• How to create greater operational efficiency, for example with automation?

 

Again, these are some examples of issues that are addressed during this transition from Traditional to Digital companiesl.

That’s why it’s important to have the right experts helping you in this process of change, showing you the best way to structure your company to be more digital.

 

People

Do all members of your team know their roles and responsibilities? In an agile culture it is important to have these issues resolved clearly, to have more engaged people.

• Roles and responsibilities (emphasizing that it is not enough to just be defined, but must be followed and monitored in a natural way by everyone ), 
• How is people’s motivation;
• And which leadership model to apply.

 

Here at Agile.Inc, we think at the end of the day, it’s always people working with people to create products and services for other people.

But, unfortunately, we still see many companies treating professionals as resources, in a very “commoditized” way, in which it is enough to just hire employees from the cheapest consultancy, for example.

 

Business Models

The fifth pillar of Digital Transformation is thinking about new business models for the VUCA world. The way people buy and consume services is changing and companies need to adapt as quickly as possible.

The work then consists of developing these five pillars for a correct Digital Transformation in organizations. We feel that each company has one of the pillars more or less developed, or with the need to develop a pillar first, etc.

However, we strongly believe that some points are levers for transformation, meaning that not everything will happen at the same time. The levers are:

• Developing leadership
• Enabling teams
• Applying Agility Concepts

 

But how to start the transformation process?

To start the process of agile transformation, we at Agile Inc. provide several products that will accompany you along this road until the moment you start walking alone.</span >

 

Squad Assembly

It is important to have a team of people with adequate skills for some processes, the SQUADs. Each client is unique and specific, and it is necessary to analyze the working conditions to assemble an adapted multidisciplinary team that will help your team to improve and become more and more agile.

 

Consulting

We use the right concepts, methods and tools to transform the way you create products, to help you connect with your customers and generate competitive advantage.

With the help of experts, it is possible to break the traditional mindset so that agile transformation can take place. It is with this type of service that you get to the top of the pillar of structure and governance faster.

 

Trains

We carry out training to adapt and improve the team according to the needs of your company and your employees. All of our certificates are in partnership with Scrum.org and made by Agile School.

 

Now that you know the main pillars for developing better digital products, contact our consultants and transform your company forever.