No organisation has at its disposal an infinite quantity of project, technology or business subject matter expert (SME) employees with which to resource and manage complex business transformation change initiatives. Business agility is about successfully identifying, organising and making use of those scarce resources in the organisation to deliver change quickly but in a stable, repeatable way.
Business agility demands that organisations rapidly increase their capacity to deliver change and must balance the execution focus with a genuine customer focus.
Much has been made of the way agile techniques have revolutionised the world of IT software development, moving from a highly structured “waterfall” delivery model to a paradigm of rapid “release on demand” development. Business agility builds on some of these software development learnings but expands the thinking into all aspects of the organisation, whether automated through IT systems or not.
There are a number of agile business models being adopted across the world, but LUXIT favours the approach of SAFe© from Scaled Agile Inc.
(https://www.scaledagileframework.com/).
SAFe© 5 provides a business agile framework ideally suited for managing an enterprise portfolio of change and transformation based on a series of Lean-Agile principles which have been shown to improve employee engagement, time-to-market, solution quality, and team productivity.