Business Agility Consulting
Business Agility Consulting
Business agility is the ability for an organization to compete in an ever-changing, fast-paced, uncertain environment by successfully responding to change and opportunities. To achieve this, an agile mindset must be prevalent throughout the organization. Everyone from finance, IT, operations, leadership, marketing, etc., approaches work using the lean-agile mindset and related practices in order to achieve business agility.
We are receiving information to make decisions in the digital age at such a fast pace, the need for business agility is becoming a must. Business agility opens the opportunity for accelerated revenues, more business value delivery, and lower risk across the enterprise. The i4 Group educates businesses on how to move towards business agility, improve organizational collaboration, and increase employee motivation through coaching that inspires innovation. With business agility, organizations become an adaptive network of collaborative and driven team members aligned to a common vision and goals, focused on delivering customer value.
In achieving business agility, the Agile Manifesto Principles are the starting guide posts:
- Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
- Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
- Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
- Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
- Working software is the primary measure of progress
- Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
