4. LIMITING
RESPONSIVENESS
• Rigid policies make it difficult to respond flexibly to customers
• Making the numbers takes precedence over investing in growth
• Managers are more accountable for delivering profits than supporting innovation
• Individuals shape their opinions to fit the biases of managers
• Few individuals feel empowered to initiate change
• The need for certainty has slowed the pursuit of new opportunity
• Our mission and value statements are as likely to provoke cynicism as they are to motivate
5. WHAT STOPS YOU?!
1. Organisation not designed appropriately to deliver value
2. Business process too inflexible to take advantage of new opportunities
3. Inability to adopt an experimentation mind-set
“In a Digital world technology is the enabler,
the organisation is now the constraint”
Published June 2014
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/The_digital_tippingbusiness_point_McKinsey_Global_Survey_results
6. #CIOEdge #ADAPT @ADAPT Ventures
Digital Transformation
and the Responsive
Organisation
Gary O'Brien
Global Advisory
Practice Leader
7. SPEED AND
RESPONSIVENESS
ARE THE NEW
BATTLEGROUND
OUTCOMES FOR
CUSTOMERS
ALIGN WORK BASED ON
KNOWLEDGE
REMOVE CONSTRAINTS
LEVERAGE SEISMIC
SHIFTS IN TECHNOLOGY
9. ALIGNTHEWORK
Let people ‘feel’ what it is like.
• Create an exemplar slice
• Empower workforce to deal with ambiguity and complexity
• Make business decision obvious
• Capture weaker signals
11. REMOVECONSTRAINTS
Let the work decide
• Let measures decide the work
• Let work decide the people
• Separate Budgets from the work
• A ‘Change’ architecture for smaller chunks
15. TECH IS NOW, MORE THAN EVER,
A STRATEGIC DIFFERENTIATOR
TECH@CORE
3rdIndustrialRevolution
(Informationasaresource)
4thIndustrialRevolution
(Technologyattheheartofvalue)
BUSINESS
SUPPORTING ROLE COLLABORATION
TECH-LED
DIFFERENTIATION
Formal walls
and moats
Tech creates
digital assets
Tech / business
boundaries blur
Collaborative
execution
Tech pervades a
digital business
TECH
17. LEADERSHIP
New talents emerge
• Deal with ambiguity through transparency
• Strong community builders who form great teams
• Able to listen, steward, mentor
• Clear the path for pace and adaptability
• Provide outcomes with a minimum constraints
• Return problems unsolved
18. Get rid of budgets and job titles, work small, learn often, gather
people around a clear outcome, measure success as something
your customers get and watch what happens.
Or at the very least, head in that direction!