Agile Business Transformation: An Unavoidable Change

After nearly a decade of economic expansion, most economists anticipate a new cycle of economic contraction. So it’s a good time to ask ourselves if our companies are ready and accelerate the transformations needed to navigate a new period of economic uncertainty.

The next recession will likely be quite different from previous ones. We’ve learned how to scale technology, now it’s time to scale the organization as a whole: the people, strategy, structure, processes, and business platforms. The key is not to embrace agility as something to do, in addition to other business priorities, but as a fundamental means of accelerating all of the company’s strategic initiatives.

When cost control and reduction become top priorities. Companies that apply agile principles and a dual structure in adjustment processes will achieve sustainable cost reduction across the organization, reducing waste and low-value, non-customer-centric activities, while protecting strategic investments and keeping open the new possibilities offered by exponential technologies. This means that the Agile enterprise transformation is a must and not an afterthought.

A Different Approach: Collaborative and Cooperative Teamwork

Through the “Accelerate Sprint” methodology of Cabrera Management Consultants, the focus will be on an iterative innovation process focused on value creation and organizational priorities, which compresses years of learning into just a few months, accelerating digital transformation via Integrated Agile Teams, where the Collaborative and cooperative teamwork It will be the central axis for value creation, emphasizing the development of transformative leadership and the adoption of agile methodologies and new ways of doing digital.

The agile combination of cross-functional teams, iterative sprints, and reliance on frequent customer and market feedback allows organizations to pivot and adjust much faster to the challenges of a new economic cycle. The Agile companies have proven to be two to four times faster at responding to change than traditional companies.

The Acelera Sprint offers practical solutions and a systemic approach when it comes to facing each of the challenges of the transformation towards agile organizations capable of delivering results and at the same time exploring the enormous opportunities of new exponential technologies and new business models in a digital world.

The processes and methodologies that we follow in each Sprint Acelera are the culmination of Cabrera Management Consultants’ experiences in the execution of innovation and transformation projects over the last 10 years, in very significant companies in our country.

 

A collective innovation experience

Running an Acelera Sprint is a collective innovation experience. Participants will learn about the principles, the process, and the outside world. Your mindset will change as you practice and refine new agile working methods, design thinking, and open communication. As a result of their experience, members of an Acelera Sprint can serve as ambassadors in the implementation of the principles of the Acelera Sprint at all three levels:

 

• Level of Behaviors. Identifying desired behaviors, selecting key people to represent, transmit and exemplify them, training and reinforcing their role, and communicating their impact.
• Leadership Level. Working with the management committee on the new role they have to take as facilitators of the process, working on their entrepreneurial leadership skills and their necessary personal transformation.
• Community Level: Team coaching and collaborative platform to innovate by doing. Establishing a system that makes it possible to work collaboratively, identify barriers and launch innovation initiatives aligned with the established strategic objectives. Comprehensive management of the progress of the innovation process and the corresponding monitoring of KPIs and reporting to management.

Leadership development

The Accelerate Sprint helps you drive engagement and retention of your key employees, identify and support your organization’s future leaders, arguably your most valuable employees, by giving them new skills and the ability to contribute to your company’s innovation initiatives. The process increases diversity and inclusion.

Here are the individual results of the Acelera Sprint for its participants:

• Significant mindset change and development of exponential thinking.
• Overcoming the lack of urgency and commitment within the organization
• New knowledge of cutting-edge exponential technologies.
• Hands-on experience of agile methodologies, design thinking, and lean thinking.
• Action learning around experimentation, prototyping and, most importantly, customer validation
• Professional development as ambidextrous professionals capable of exploitation and exploration.

Enterprise Agile Transformation Roadmap

It’s about connecting with collective intelligence and creating a new framework for collective contribution, to deploy energy, ask the right questions, discover potential, design agile processes, and accelerate transformation initiatives. The Accelerate sprint takes place in four main phases, each consisting of sub-components that help translate new collective perspectives into actionable decisions and measurable results.

 

Results for your organization

Organizational Agile Transformation it is a fundamentally emergent process. This implies that the process is not predetermined, but is designed as the collaborative work develops and as the group moves towards achieving the specific objectives of each transformation sprint. Consequently, each Accelerate Sprint usually produces extraordinary and unexpected results, both in terms of process and in terms of measurable results. These are specific to each organizational coaching process and to the organization in question.

Here are some of the benefits mentioned in retrospect by participating companies:

• Enterprise-wide knowledge of exponential technologies and associated new platform business models.
• Development of a new
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  , agile and collaborative organizational model based on a set of new ways of doing, processes and critical capabilities to compete in the new digital economy.
• Development of a systemic approach to achieve innovation objectives. A New Practical Approach to Disruptive Innovation
• The ability to replicate Accelerate Sprints and processes that drive disruptive innovation across the organization.
• A portfolio of validated innovation initiatives ready for incubation and further scaling.

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Every organization has specific management challenges and needs that need to be addressed, feel free to contact us to discuss your needs and create the most suitable intervention for your organization.