Book Description

Digital transformation will be the words on most people's lips during 2021, as the world looks to ameliorate the impact of COVID but transforming is notoriously difficult to get right and failure rates run at the 80% mark. At last, there is a method to help you through the challenging times ahead. Transformation Sprint brings agile thinking to the process of digital transformation planning and design.To date, most transformations have been built out using traditional methods. Ironically. That means the route companies choose when they want to be agile, is mapped out in a non-agile way. Transformation Sprint gives you a way round this transformation paradox. It is a six step method that embraces agile thinking and practices and applies them to the problem of transformation design and execution. Transformation Sprint allows you to start your journey in an agile way and in doing so radically improves the chances of success."a fantastic, expert guide for how to get your team to deliver a compelling vision, with a clear, achievable plan. I wish I had this 20 years ago." Hugh Hessing, former COO, Aviva PlcChange has always been difficult but more so now than ever, as businesses scramble to understand the impact of COVID19 on their revenues and strategies. Policy makers meanwhile are facing a once-in-a-lifetime challenge. How will businesses and governments go about making the critical changes needed? This step-by-step guide to designing good transformations and fixing broken ones is a bible for people who work in transformation or are affected by sudden events that derail work in progress. Whether you are an agile coach, agile leader, project manager or senior decision maker this book will teach you a four week fix to any significant problem you face. Use Transformation Sprints not only to solve big problems but also to upskill yourself and prepare for a better career. Transformation Sprints takes the principle of rapid momentum from the agile world and applies it to big problems. It breaks down the process of resetting a major transformation into six main areas but focuses primarily on three: perspectives, playback and prioritisation, the three Ps of successful change. Whether you are implementing a standardised framework such as SAFe or you are following the Spotify model, launching a digital transformation or find yourself in the middle of any kind of change program, you are going to enter stormy waters. The chances of your change-by-design plan actually working are statistically very low and when things go wrong they go wrong in very complex ways. Transformation Sprint is a method for simplifying complexity and taking back control of a company's future."Organisational change is hard in its own right, only compounded by the fact that every organisation is unique and has a unique journey ahead of them. Yet across them all, there is a certain rhythm or cadence that underpins every journey. What Fin and Haydn have managed to do with Transformation Sprint is to highlight all the major touchpoints along this journey. There is something in this book for everyone, be they a business leader looking to understand the journey ahead of them, or a business consultant looking to see how best to help their clients."EVAN LEYBOURN, CEO and Co-Founder, Business Agility Institute.