Doing Business in Real Time

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The global economy has a life of its own, it lives in real-time, and we are all part of it. Hello brave new world.

Michael Hugos

Agility is Global

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My colleagues and I are leaving today to do a 30-Day Blitz in India. The blitz we launched in May with a global electronics and software company was a real success and they’ve decided to follow it up with a sequence of three more blitzes, one at their development center in Hyderabad and two more in the States.

 

I’ve got butterflies in my stomach. My mind is racing with questions and concerns about how things will work out. The last time I was in India I was seven years old; my father was there on business and my family and I spent a month in New Delhi. India made a strong impression on me then and ever since it has always been an iconic place, evoking images of history and mystery. Now my work is bringing me back.

 

Our client is bringing together project stakeholders from Ireland, India and the United States and we’re meeting in Hyderabad to launch the blitz on Monday. On the flight over, Aaron and Paul and I will review what we know about the situation and continue our discussion of how best to introduce the blitz concepts and practices to this new group of people.

 

The 30-Day Blitz is a process that encapsulates the concepts of IT and business agility and uses them to identify business opportunities and quickly develop systems to exploit those opportunities. It all starts with a clear definition of the goal we want to accomplish and then creating a strategy based on making maximum use of existing strengths and capabilities. Agile strategies always display the characteristics of speed, simplicity and boldness.

 

That strategy is expressed and literally embodied in the design of the solution system we will build. The design should leverage existing IT infrastructure wherever possible and new development should be focused on the delivery of new capabilities needed to effectively exploit the chosen business opportunity. The system design is then broken down into subsystems that each provide value in their own right and can be built and put into production in 30 day increments.

 

At the start of the blitz, our challenge will be to get people from three different countries and cultures to communicate and collaborate in order to define the goal and the strategy and

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