Enabling a digital organization by BlueDolphin and POE Model

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

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Danny