Becoming a World Class Digital Organisation - BearingPoint

#3 - INCREASE AGILITY TO OVERCOME STRUCTURAL INERTIA
� Responsive and agile digital delivery is enabled through
physical and collaborative integration between teams
Agility is imperative for organisations: they need to build and
maintain a strong culture to develop its identity, but, at the
same time, they have to remain responsive to dynamic
environments and seize the opportunity to initiate or to react to
environmental change. Agility is thus a mix of stability and
reorganisation whist coping with internal coherence.
Encouraging cohesion, organisational commitment, and
desirable work behaviours among members is therefore
fundamental to creating the baseline of the organisation.
Path to create true integrated collaboration
In Financial Services, IT and business teams are often physically
separated: for more than 60% of respondents, teams are
located separately within offices, between offices, and often
geographies. The mode of working between them is that of
customer and supplier; primarily through IT responding to
business requests. Collaboration is low and people rarely
request help from others, fearing that it is perceived as an
admission of incomprehension or lack of knowledge.
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