AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The success of a business in 2019 will rely on the organization's ability to swiftly respond to change. Disruptive competitors and new technology lead to higher customer expectations. Agile experts noted in Architecture & Governance magazine that, "a new architectural framework called Agile integration," can help, "your organization to create a competitive advantage," and meet customer expectations.
A new movement, known as Agile integration, should not be confused with IT's "Agile software development." Agile integration applies to more than IT, taking "the complexity of existing systems, different data types, data streams, and customer expectations, and finds a way to unify them," according to the experts in Architecture & Governance.
Integrating Agile into an organization as a whole typically requires an organizational transformation. Forbes Insights reported 81% of 1,000 C-Suite leaders believe that when Agile is applied throughout an entire company, it leads to a successful organization. Among the companies surveyed was GE Healthcare, a player in a wave of adopters in the healthcare industry that have turned to Agile to focus on bottom line and internal process improvement.
Erik Cottrell, Senior Vice President of Client Success at Agile Velocity (AV),observed that the change in the healthcare market has surged in recent years. "We have definitely seen a shift among companies in the healthcare industry," he noted. "They are increasingly focused on both cost savings and improving customer satisfaction levels simultaneously."
A recent article from Money Inc talked about how partners in transformation, such as Agile Velocity, have seen the most success when Agile is tailored to an organization's needs. Agile Velocity recently signed on for a 7-figure, multi-year engagement with a publicly traded company. The engagement is focused on building repeatable and meaningful results that an Agile transformation at scale can produce. Why did the company hire Agile Velocity for such a high profile transformation? "David (Agile Velocity's CEO) took the time to understand the prospective client's pain points and made the client feel secure enough to open a dialogue on the company's areas of improvement," shared Cottrell. "The company felt David's empathy to their needs as an organization was refreshing. Transformation partnership begins with understanding, and that foundational empathy drives success as organizations undergo the worthwhile, but painful undertaking of changing their process."
Transformation partners such as Agile Velocity are steadily growing as companies across industries begin to recognize their need for organizational agility. As Agile methodology brings more tangible results to organizations that have already taken the courageous steps to change, organizational transformation will likely become a trend in 2019.
SOURCE Agile
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