The ever increasing speed in the digital era challenges the traditional modus operandi of IT organizations. Digital products and services must be developed in quick and iterative steps to match the speed of industries and ecosystems. This change in how we deliver value points out implications towards organizational structures, how we coordinate work, degrees of freedom, technological structures, such as the right degree of coupling and focused automation, and, last but not least, financial management structures.
In their 2020 article “Disrupting Traditional Approaches to Create a Resilient Innovation Funding Model” the analysts from Gartner focus on the tension between new ways of working and traditional financial management approaches.
Governance has always been a delicate balancing act between control and agility. Typically, organizations start with a traditional governance style, which means a one-size-fits-all approach. As organizations build their digital businesses, governance must evolve beyond many of the controlled methods. This requires cultural changes in both IT and the business.
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Coming from a traditional governance style, portfolios now must account for the increasingly integrative nature of the digital business. Therefore, they account for the changing nature of demands(1), requirements, cadences, and budgeting.
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Learn more about how adaptive governance styles are used to manage and coordinate across distributed portfolios. Gartner subscribers can read the full report here (external link).
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