Between digitally functioning cultures

Much has been heard about methodologies, frameworks, best practices, trends, or whatever you want to call them, based on experience in a project or company.

The issue really starts with how to organize and personalize the good practice(s) so that they bear fruit, which in the end we know as culture; yes, it is an ecosystem that goes beyond implementing an agile framework, some type of project management, products or values ​​(PMO, VMO, etc.), following a line that lately seeks more multidisciplinary teams focused on a product or business area, similar to Squads or whatever name you want to give it, in the end the effort is not comprehensive.

 Often, efforts are somewhat isolated, failing to consolidate or generate the expected value, precisely because they forget to start from unity and understand the full context of needs. That is, there is no strategic alignment, and the consequences are mixed, and in some cases, not what was expected.

 

Lack of knowledge of strategic planning is also not a limitation, as every company has objectives to address and, in some way, defines or plans them to achieve them.

Some companies focus on processes, others on products, and some float and define things as they go along. In any case, the culture mentioned above can bear fruit, since this flexibility is what empowers people to make things happen. Breaking the belief that they only think about results is possible if they permeate the culture and trust the processes, which will empower the lines or ways of operating.

As complex as it may seem, in the end culture starts with putting order in order to govern and orchestrate people, products, services, operations, administration and whatever else you want to add. To ensure that a company, of any size or area, obtains its results, positioning, growth; this organized and orchestrated mix comes into play, enabling the “how to” and breaking the nightmares experienced over time with different isolated efforts, consultancies or in-house areas of all types and sizes that come and go with mixed or unexpected results.

 

It is then that the experience developed over decades and collaborative work has been polished with a model based on perspectives and pillars that support precisely this famous culture that, when adopted, allows things to happen, that areas and teams organized with global knowledge of the business produce greater value and operate in a simple, flexible, truly agile way and oriented towards how yes, simply living the process of this form of orchestrated organization from a comprehensive perspective.

This is how the "Harmonized Perspectives Model" was born, which we will explore in upcoming publications. It has been refined and tested for years in different companies and sectors, both in cloud-based and cloud-free models, as well as hybrid models, among other factors that will be discussed in subsequent articles. In short, it has been refined for digital transformation and improvement solutions.

Jorge Mercado

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