Being Agile: Business Survival Essentials
Date posted
7 December 2016
Reading time
3 Minutes
Being Agile: Business Survival Essentials
The world of business is changing faster than ever. Digital start-ups are re-shaping long established industries with innovative business models and services that better meet customers' needs. Companies that fail to respond to the challenge are falling by the wayside, with many high street names amongst the list of casualties.
In his talk at this year's Agile on the Beach, Kainos Consultant Marc Heasman discussed the drivers for digital transformation, including the use of Agile to achieve the business flexibility required in the digital age. Highlighting the increasing use of mobile, it outlined the changing expectations of customers in how services are delivered and illustrate the impact on those businesses that have failed to respond. Then, drawing from the practices of some of the world's most successful digital businesses, he described the key features now increasingly essential to business survival, covering:
- Customer focus
- Service agility
- Data exploitation
- Technology maximization
- Systematic innovation
- Digital skills
- Experimental culture