Vasco Agile
In an ever-changing world, we are always on the lookout for improvements we can make to ensure we keep pace with these changes. Organisations want to be agile. On a small scale, this is relatively easy to achieve: getting a team to work in short-term cycles can really be implemented immediately. But if you want to become agile on a larger scale and fully embed this agility in your organisation then you will have to start with a well-considered plan, one that answers the questions: why do you as the organisation want to make this transition and in particular, how are you going to achieve this? What is your strategy? How will you ensure that different teams are agile at the same time? And how do you modify the existing organisation?
Your plan will also serve as a blueprint for the future. You know why you want to become agile and accordingly when your organisation will be successful. In addition, you know how you will tackle these matters and over what period of time, so that nothing stands in the way of a successful transformation.
In other words, a transformation into being agile starts at the drawing table. You will then have to put it into practice on a small scale fairly quickly. This is the crux of the matter: as an organisation, you want to start implementing this change quickly and making this abstract plan measurable. You simply start introducing the new way of working in multiple teams right away. This is the start of your voyage of discovery in which you learn what the effect is on your corporate culture and operational processes, as well as on your way of working. During this phase of operationalisation, you can modify and hone the changes made during the process in order to make this transformation a success. If you do so then you will already be training your organisation to be ready for its new, future set-up. The employees are given the knowledge and tools they need to achieve this.
If it already turns out during the pilot phase that the new way of working is a ‘perfect fit’ then you will naturally want to put the pedal to the metal and implement it throughout the entire organisation. During this phase of optimisation, the first thing you do is to gear the corporate culture to the transformation process. You adjust the positions to the new roles and to the control model. You update the support processes. Now you are ready to scale up to the entire company. You increase the number of self-managing teams until the new agile way of working becomes the standard.
We distinguish between three distinct steps in the transformation process. The plan for the future, agile organisation. The plan’s operationalisation, where simply doing - and learning from this - teaches you what is (and what is not) a good fit with the existing corporate culture. And finally, if the process is successful then you will want to further optimise it and implement it throughout the entire organisation. All this is possible, given the right knowhow, drive and support and can be achieved in less than one year.
Vasco Agile helps organisations to launch and complete a successful transformation process in order to introduce a new, agile way of working. We will draw up a plan with you that we will put into operation quickly and - once it is proceeding smoothly - optimise further. The goal is to get your organisation to work more efficiently and more effectively. An agile business can constantly improve and in this way deliver additional added value to the customer. It’s about being successful in the short, medium and long term.
In other words: it’s not about quick fixes, it’s about a long-term process that your company or organisation will reap the benefits of both now and in the future.
