When talking about digitization, typical Buzzwords are constantly used, such as agility, agile teams, fast track IT, 2 Speed IT, industry 4.0, digital business models, new product & service strategies, hybrid customer, digital platforms, big data, new digital capabilities and many others. Having these slogans in your back, you also should develop and implement a digital strategy and you should be innovative when doing so. Simultaneously, you are in the middle of the daily business, trying to keep the company and the IT up and running, being more efficient. On top of it, you actually are concerned with achieving transparency of the architectural landscape by running through a long-term survey and As Is documentation possibly getting real-time data.
However,
this also is a major challenge for most of the architectural teams. This is
where BlueDolphin from Valueblue comes into play! BlueDolphin connects all
systems in the architectural landscape and brings the available information
together in real time in a central repository. Because of the structural
connections with the sources, BlueDolphin is always up to date with the
architecture. The central repository includes functional, financial, and
technical information from automated data about applications, relationships,
dependencies, application functions, business processes, and infrastructure / target
architecture. This enables you to quickly and easily get the actual As Is
architecture information having real-time information. So, you can make proper
decisions in your organization.
In the
context of digitalization and when using BlueDolphin, you then are able to see whether
your As Is architecture already contains components that are relevant for
digitization or not and you can plan and control a new target architecture for
the digital organization accordingly. Beforehand, it is also advisable to start
thinking about a question: "What is really driving us into digitization
and what are the goals we are pursuing?" Too often, this question is
seldom considered when being in the daily business and you are frantically
catching up with digitization themes and finally let architectural speed
boats into the water.
Nevertheless, the question is quite
justified. Why would I want to be more agile and efficient in my organization,
who really wants me to do this, how do I define this and what is the goal I pursue?
Why do I need access to (customer) data as much as possible and what do I want
to do with the data? That are too often the questions, which are not properly
answered in the daily business environment.
If you have
answered these above-mentioned questions, the question remains where or how
this affects your organization. Knowing that you have to be more agile is fine.
But what does this mean for the organization & processes, or for the roles
and responsibilities in the organization? Do you need new agile approaches and
methods and new skills and competences for the employees, or even new
governance structures having multi-modal governance across business and IT in
place? These questions and much more of them are
important to answer to identify the impact of the drivers and goals to your organization.
These
questions, typically result in specific fields of action within the
organization, which can be addressed and implemented step by step to define and
develop new digital Business and IT capabilities. Among other things, agility
can also be enabled by a multi-speed / multi-modal organization & governance
structure including setting up related roles & responsibilities across
Business and IT, and through setting up agile development and management
approaches within the organization. Agility can also be achieved through
harmonization, standardization, automation of the customer journeys or by
setting up a product modularization approach using standardized modules which
can be combined to individual customer offerings.
These were
just some examples of what digitization can mean for an organization, and of
course it looks a bit different in each organization. The Pragmatic
Organizational Development Model (POE model) supports you as a digitization
framework and guideline in order to find answers to all these questions and to
fully define and establish a digital organization. Using BlueDolphin, you can
then capture, analyze and further develop the necessary digital enterprise
architecture also having real-time information and reports available for your
stakeholders being involved.
If you have
any questions, please feel free to contact us, Danny Weinberger, or Dominique
Donné - danny.weinberger (at) valueblue.de or dominique.donne (at) valueblue.de
Best Regards
Danny
