Agile

Agile is a word always on the lips of digital business leaders.  It’s the way to be if you are working in digital and has set the popular standard as the recent way to work.  This isn’t the first time a methodology has grabbed the business world so completely –  after all the world of business does like its new ways of working.

When I started working as a management consultant, the industry had different buzzwords. We were TQM, Balanced Scorecard and Lean.  We had our core ways of being, all helpfully documented in books we could buy out at the airport.

Much has been written about current middle management roles becoming increasingly irrelevant,ANZ's Digital Chief Maile Carnegie a few months ago famously referring to the 'frozen middle' who "have graduated from doing to managing and basically bossing other people around and shuffling Powerpoints", who also "resist change like death." Carnegie highlighting the importance of distributed leadership and del

The Retail Banking industry is under immense pressure. Disruption from Fintech, a history of misselling scandals undermining customer trust, ever new regulation and internal costs that keep rising while employee engagement remains low.

To combat the rising tides, most banks try a combination of heavy investment in technology, internal restructuring, closing branches, and automating activities to reduce costs.

The results are a mixed bag.

In 2012, the renowned management guru and business book author Steve Denning wrote an article entitled “The Case Against Agile" which had almost 80,000 views and caused a lot of debate in management circles.

Here, Denning debunked the top ten objections put forward by organisations as to why Agile cannot possibly work for them.

Digital Transformation is everywhere and can become a bit of a minefield of jargon and terminology, from AI to Analytics, and IoT to Ransomware, technical terminology can be confusing and as a business transformation leader, you need to understand the potential technology can provide for your organisation.

If you find yourself in over your head confusing your RPA with your BPM, our partner IQPC have provided a glossary of technology-focused terms to help organisations understand their opportunities and the terms that are trending amongst digital transformation.