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Enterprise Agility

Who will shape the next big disruption in the mortgage lending arena?: The Future of Digital Mortgages, Part 2

Remember the days when, if you needed a new coffee maker and a cookbook, you’d drive to a department store, then to a bookstore? Then Amazon came along and, with a few clicks, it provided the convenience of buying both items from your sofa and offered options for the best price. Amazon became the one-stop…

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Enterprise Agility

A Logical Approach to Requirements Gathering

Requirements gathering is a critical, foundational step in all software development. It will either set the project on a course to great success if done well or doom it to failure if done poorly. As Janet Leon pointed out in her blog, The True Cost of a Software Bug, the earlier you catch a bug…

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Enterprise Agility

Agile Development: 4 Ways to Tell if You’re Living in the Past or Staying True to Agile Principles

Companies have a history of creating lengthy documentation that bogs down software development. In this “pre-Agile” era, requirements were established up front, testing didn’t occur until Agile methodologies developed, and the customer wasn’t involved until they were given the end product. Modifications and changes could cause an entire project to go way over budget or…

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Enterprise Agility

The Agile Rhythm: How to Find Yours & Why

Remember ‘song time’ in Kindergarten, when your friends would all join together in a sing-along? My favorite was, “Old MacDonald,” because the simple melody and repetition could convince even the shyest person to sing. Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-OH And on that farm there were some ducks, E-I-E-I-OH The song repeated with cows mooing…

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Editor's Picks

Why do companies struggle with digital transformation?

Companies of all sizes are faced with industry disruption, new technologies, and changing customer needs. Organizations with outdated…

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Operational Excellence

Leading people through forced change

When employees face disruptive change, they are often spurred on because there is a well-founded “why”—a justification for…

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Customer experience

So you have a journey map. Now what?

As organizations strive to become more customer-centric, journey mapping has become an integral tool to help organizations get…

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RPA in 2020

Mindless. Repetitive. Tedious. Necessary. Some of the most important functions in your business are cyclical, manual processes. Often…

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Evolving Organizations Responsive Enterprise

Despite more than a year of pandemic disruption and consumer hesitancy, sales of luxury car brands echo the growth of the S&P 500, ...

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financial services transformation

Evolving Organizations Responsive Enterprise

As the staggering pace of technological transformation continues, organizations are working tirelessly to not only adapt, but thrive. I had ...

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Driving innovative disruption in the automotive industry

Celerity is known for being a place where people with disruptive ideas about enterprise transformation can connect. Recently, I hosted ...

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On-Demand Webinar: How Responsive Enterprises thrive in uncertain times

When disruption reigns, let your customers show you the way with Customer-Centricity, Operational Effectiveness and Agility Business as ...

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Activate your journey map

Why is activating a journey map difficult? As organizations digitally evolve and transform, every aspect of the customer journey is mapped. ...

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innovation at scale

Harnessing innovation at scale

Harnessing innovation can be painful and disruptive unless you turn an innovation process into part of your company’s everyday routine. ...

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