The Better Way: Transformation principles for the
  • The Better Way: Transformation principles for the real world
  • Preface
    • Preface
  • Part I - The Big Picture
    • Introduction
    • Radical change
    • Rapid acceleration
    • Profound complexity
    • Part I Summary
  • Part II - The better way
    • Introduction
    • Principle one: Focus on customer value and adaptability
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Principle two: Technology excellence is the strategy
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Principle three: Choose product teams over project teams
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Principle four: Divide and conquer
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Principle five: Integrate governance, risk and compliance experts with product teams early and often
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Principle six: Measure what matters
      • Applying the principle in practice
      • What good looks like
      • Common failure modes
      • Final thoughts
    • Part II Summary
  • Part III - Micro-transformation
    • Introduction
    • Step one: Design effective cross-functional teams
      • How it works
      • Why it works
      • Final thoughts
    • Step two: Create immersive working environments
      • How it works
      • Why it works
      • Final thoughts
    • Step three: Implement the Starter Kata
      • How it works
      • Why it works
      • Final thoughts
    • Step four: Thin-slice the work
      • How it works
      • Why it works
      • Final thoughts
    • Part III Summary
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Endnotes
    • Endnotes
    • License
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  1. Part I - The Big Picture

Part I Summary

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Our aim in Part I was to capture the powerful consumer and technology driven change affecting many established businesses today, as well place a frame around the complex challenges that organizations must overcome in order to adapt fast enough.

Transformation is achievable but it requires commitment, resiliency and investment, particularly in core best practices, new capabilities, and added capacity coupled with pragmatic-outcome-based measures of success.

For companies willing to move beyond wishful thinking and commit to success, there is a path. To make it all work, leaders and their employees will need to embrace responsiveness as a core ethos and learn to adapt to new organizational structures, new mindsets and cultures, and new ways of working. This is the path to creating an organization that is more responsive, resilient and able to adapt to change as it occurs to create opportunities through digital.

Next, in , we’ll explore the six principles that your organization can use as a transformation blueprint.

Part II