{"id":29956,"date":"2019-11-06T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=29956"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:16:06","slug":"iqbusiness-publishes-2019-state-of-agile-sa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/11\/06\/iqbusiness-publishes-2019-state-of-agile-sa-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IQbusiness publishes 2019 State of Agile SA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Independent management consulting firm IQbusiness has released its 2019 State of Agile SA Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 report doubled\nas a call to action for companies to adopt a more agile approach across the\nvalue chain, to challenge leadership to enable better ways of working in all\nareas, and, most importantly, to solidify the customer as the \u2018golden thread\u2019 in\nall activities in order to achieve business agility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for\norganisations to become agile is even more compelling. More than just a\nbuzzword, business agility means optimised value delivery to the customer, which\ninherently has a strong link to culture and mindset; an ecosystem of people,\nprocess, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is based on\nsix in-depth interviews with expert industry practitioners as well as a quantitative\nsurvey of 263 individuals working in South African companies of various sizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conclusion is there\nis much room for improvement towards peak customer value\ndelivery enabled through a shift in the end-to-end system and its underlying\nculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quantitative data clearly indicated the most significant reasons for adopting agile – to accelerate product delivery, improve the ability to adapt to change, improve business and IT alignment, and enhance product quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In stark contrast, the survey results indicated that actual benefits realised were improved collaboration and visibility, whereas faster time to market and enhanced product quality were the benefits least experienced by survey respondents.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biase De Gregorio, Agile Lead at IQbusiness, said: \u201cMore\norganisations are starting to adopt an agile business approach, embracing the\nprinciples and practices. What decision-makers need to realise, though, is that\nagile as a philosophy is not a silver bullet to solve the problem of slow\nproduct delivery. Rather, it\u2019s the ability to respond more effectively and\nefficiently to customer needs through prioritising the products and features\nthat provide the best customer value which in turn will lead to improved\nbusiness value.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the report states, only 25% of management and senior management report a notable improvement in the ability to adapt to change. This is primarily because organisations are still project and matrix organisations, with traditional budgeting processes that will slow them down. Over and above this, Agile ways of working have been a focus predominantly within IT and not necessarily upstream (customer and business requirements) and downstream (operations). IT is no longer the bottleneck; agile ways of working need to be adopted across the value chain. Without shifting the entire value chain, leadership can\u2019t expect to experience the full benefits of Business Agility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IQbusiness state that it\u2019s\nimportant to note that Agile Software Development was intended to make the\nworld safe for software developers and when the 17 authors created the Agile\nManifesto in 2001, they didn\u2019t intend for these values and principles to scale\ninto large corporates. However, organisations should realise that there is a\nburning platform to become \u2018business agile\u2019 in order to remain relevant in\ntoday\u2019s highly competitive and ever-changing market. Based on both the\nqualitative and quantitative research, there is massive benefit further along the\npath towards business agility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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