Building a Culture of Continuous Transformation

Transformation is the mission-critical business capability

Every

migration

merger

pivot

strategic initiative

course correction

customer experience overhaul

operational re-platforming

They each feel like The Big One—until the next one. That's when you realize how crazy it is to start from zero every time. And that the need for change never ends.

The winners in every industry are the companies that master the art of change. They achieve this mastery by creating a culture of Continuous Transformation. You can, too.

Whether you’re an enterprise architect, a product or engineering manager, or a strategic business lead: we’ll introduce you to the principles that underpin this culture, what this culture looks like and why, today, it matters so much.

The Six Principles of Continuous Transformation

You might recognize some from the way your organization already works. That’s awesome. But to realize the full power of this culture, you need all six.

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Think Product, Not Project

Continuous Transformation cultures tackle transformation iteratively, always adapting to evolving customer needs and focusing on results, not deliverables.

Why Businesses are Transforming from a Project to Product-Based Thinking

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Put the Customer First

When the customer stands at the center of your transformation efforts, you automatically focus on the outcomes that are most meaningful to them.

A Greenfield Approach to IT Modernization with C&A and LeanIX

Democratize Your Data

Data drives impact. Enable the entire organization to leverage data’s power by ensuring data quality and emphasizing ease of access for all.

How EBSCO Information Services Implemented Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture with LeanIX

Prioritize Collaboration

Encourage and empower people to work across functional boundaries. Keep everyone aligned through a shared set goals and a single source of truth.

Implementing Digital Transformation: The Art and Science of a Collaborative EA Strategy

Foster Creativity

Give people access to the data, tools, and opportunities they need to spawn and nurture ideas. Invite people to experiment and challenge the status quo.

How to Enable Business-Led IT through SaaS Management

Think Holistically

Everything is connected. That’s why you democratize data and prioritize collaboration. It’s also why you build a culture based on transparency and mindfulness.

Getting it right: A holistic approach to SAP S/4HANA transformations

“A culture of Continuous Transformation is a set of beliefs, behaviors, and tools—all supported by a common language—focused on adapting to and mastering change.”

Faced with a rapidly-evolving environment, this business culture accepts that change is inevitable, welcomed, and filled with growth opportunities.

To continually and flexibly balance long-term and short-term goals, this culture adopts agile management practices and takes an iterative, results-oriented approach to goal setting.

Finally, to provide easy access to information and guide decision-making, this culture relies on tools that are both cloud native and data rich.

A culture of Continuous Transformation surfaces risks and opportunities quickly. And provides a flexible foundation enabling a rapid response.

The long-term result? Happier customers, competitive advantage, and organizational resilience. Discover some examples of companies putting these ideas into practice:

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Stride

Defining Market-Leading Business Models

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Hear Stride’s CITO speak on how market domination was achieved using LeanIX. Learn more

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Travis Perkins

From disarray to harmony: a victory with Enterprise Architecture and Application Portfolio Management.

Travis Perkins - Retail

"By establishing systems of record around process, technology, and business capabilities, Travis Perkins has laid the groundwork for true IT modernization." Learn more

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Carrier

Improving Application Portfolio Decision Making at Carrier

Carrier - Manufacturing

Hear from Carrier on their digital transformation and strategy. Learn more

Guess What? Dealing With Each Transformation As A One-Off Project Just Doesn’t Work

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Transformations need to be continuous

Transformations should consist of a series of manageable micro-transformations rather than one big one. Consider this…

As software development became more complex, companies moved from the traditional Waterfall methodology to Agile. This involved breaking down development tasks into manageable chunks and decentralizing development efforts. We need to attack software complexity in the same way.

Taming software complexity involves the whole organization. And it starts with a shared understanding of your global software stack, including all the relationships between software assets, as well as their connection to business capabilities. This requires, in part, an easy-to-use, single source of truth about your software estate.

With that in place, you can model and map out transformation paths while continuously uncovering new opportunities for adaptation, evolution, and competitive advantage.

We’re not talking about a theory here. Mitigating a critical vulnerability in less than 48 hours, for example, wouldn’t be possible without this approach.

Blogpost: How we mitigated the log4j vulnerability "Log4Shell" within 48 hours

Never Forget: Software Gives You An Edge. Complexity Takes It Away

Every process, in every department, in every discipline now runs on software.

This has created a tangle of integrations and interdependencies between software systems:

Some bought, some built
Some in the cloud, some in data centers
All connected by APIs or hard, custom code

The result is chronic, compound software complexity—and it’s the number one obstacle to change.

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Over the last few decades, software ate the world

LeanIX Is The Essential Platform For Continuous Transformation.

Application Rationalization

Continuous application rationalization allows you to confidently optimize application spend, control costs and promote organizational agility.

Application Portfolio Assessment

Have a consistent overview of your application landscape, IT components, and business capabilities.

Application Modernization

Manage cloud migrations with transformation planning plus automated governance and monitoring.

ERP
Transformation

Confidently navigate your ERP transformation by aligning corporate objectives with business and IT capabilities.

Companies that create a culture of Continuous Transformation win.

To build and support this culture, you need a platform that offers total transparency over your current state, where you want to go, and how you’ll get there. Even more importantly, you need a platform that everyone can use.

LeanIX lets you master software complexity so you can quickly cultivate a culture that enables transformation, continuously.

It’s Time to Drive Change. Continuously.

Taming complexity starts with a comprehensive, collaboratively sourced view of your software estate. Our platform provides this along with a host of supporting capabilities allowing you to drive and manage transformation, continuously.