Value Stream Change Programmes

The Challenge:

Many organisations got their transformation efforts wrong. Agile was addressed as a process change and digital as a technology delivery. No real change came of it, and it wasn't transformative. We help you take the next step of change. We see digital as both a BUSINESS change and a LEADERSHIP transformation.

Approaches to change need to change too. The traditional wholesale change management techniques of depicting a target state and determining a plan for this new state are also outdated. Different parts of the organisation have different needs and start from various maturity levels. We need to work with it.

Expected Outcomes:

• Reset the primary alignment of the organisation to the Flow of Value or Value Streams, 

• Evolve the Operating model to function in this new way, 

• Develop teamwork collaboration, and Systemic Leadership to operate in such an environment,

• Consolidate the foundations of operational excellence (else, you are continually firefighting), 

• Establish collaboration, emergence and agility in the strategy with the Continuous Strategy Operating Model. 

Our Differentiated Approach:

Such programmes are complex, and we offer to approach them in alignment with such complexity. We assess the maturity and readiness across several candidate areas and adapt the approach to their respective maturity.

We then work according to four key change dimensions: 

• Excellence: Establish a level of operational excellence to focus on setting the right foundations, reducing disruption due to variability and creating a collaborative approach to quality, 

• Flow & Agility: Identify the Flow of value and connect teams' scopes in this Flow. Organise the inter-team interaction according to the Flow complexity, 

• Leadership and Team Collaboration: Develop leadership and recalibrate teamwork collaboration (intra and inter-teams) supporting a Flow organisation, 

• Continuous Strategy Operating Model: Organise collaboration on the strategy, enabling it to be more distributed, emergent and agile.

We work with your people to progress in parallel: 

• Training/education for people to understand new concepts, 

• Dedicated assistance to pilot and support change in relevant areas, including relevant coaching of leaders and teams,

• Systemic leadership to assist in making the changes coherent and meaningful across areas. 

Please see a 20-minute video case study of such a whole-encompassing programme that we progressed with one of our clients and presented at SEACON 2024.

Service Format:

Such complex programmes last many months and even multi-years in large organisations. We work with you to define programme steps in six-month increments. We offer catalyst activities to accelerate the change while working within the available headroom and ensuring we anchor progress before adding more.