The Adaptive Zones Model (AZM)
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The Adaptive Zones Model (AZM)
What the Adaptive Zones Model (AZM) is and why it's important for your enterprise.
The challenge facing many organizations
Most enterprises' goal is - in some form or other - to generate value for customers and the company by utilizing the resources and unique capabilities of the organization to create and provide products or services that satisfy some need of the customer. They generate strategies and build roadmaps to synchronize customer need with strategy and - if t
hey are clever - with resource availability to optimize value generation. Market situations and technologies however change constantly requiring rapid adjustments to the roadmap and even strategy to keep generating high value.
Most transformations quickly become rigid, hindering adaptability to maximize value generation leaving organizations in a constant game of catch up. This is because adaptability is not integrated into these solutions (even those which are initially seen as successful) and companies find themselves still struggling to reorganize each time they have to adapt to new situations.
To address this challenge, Rimagin has developed the Adaptive Zones Model (AZM) which puts adaptability at the center of a pragmatic customer-oriented approach to value generation, ensuring that the entire organization is focused and organized around maximum value generation for its customers and ultimately itself.
What is the Adaptive Zones Model (AZM)?
The model consists of 3 key elements:
Adaptively connecting business goals with the right IT teamsIdentifying where which teams can generate the most value for the organization by working on the right initiatives on the roadmap.
Enabling adaptive Implementation ZonesThese are flexible groupings of teams that adapt to development requirements with teams joining and leaving as needed, thus maximizing flow. They have 2 key characteristics:
Establish an effective connection between business goals and IT solutions and
continuously adapt team collaborations to address business goals.
Establishing Centers of Operation and Resource Excellence (COREs)These are stable competence centers with operational responsibility empowering teams to embrace collaborative change and drive system evolution.
How the Adaptive Zones Model can enhance your business adaptability
There are four core abilities an organization must develop to become truly adaptive.
1
Adaptive Value Alignment
The ability to adaptively connect business goals with the right IT teams.
Ensures that the right teams are working on the right initiatives, best aligned with the company's business goals. As the business needs change, the teams’ assignments change.
2
Adaptive Value Flow
The ability to adaptively establish effective connection between business goals and IT solutions.
The organization is built around the business needs, creating clear lines of communication and responsibility between business and development, ensuring focus and high adaptability. In the event of short-term changes in requirements, there are focused responses not mired in multiple dependencies. As the business needs change, so too does the development organization, avoiding silos.
3
Adaptive Collaboration
The ability to continuously adapt team collaborations to address business goals.
Teams cyclically review and adapt their collaboration mechanisms to fit the development needs. As requirements change, teams can move from one area to another ensuring focus on where they can provide the highest value to the organization.
4
Adaptive Organizational Architecture
The ability to empower teams to embrace collaborative change and drive system evolution.
Through clear home-bases, teams have the cognitive capacity and emotional security to adaptively reorganize to maximize value creation. Through centers of excellence, systems are evolved, and system retirements can be effectively managed ensuring a fit-for-purpose IT-Landscape.
Benefits for your business
Here are just some of the many benefits of the Adaptive Zones Model
Improved ability to react to market changes.
Better alignment of teams with strategic goals.
Early recognition and resolution of capacity conflicts through a clear roadmap.
Incremental transformation towards an adaptive development organization.
Clear alignment of business initiatives to development responsibility.
Improved employee satisfaction and loyalty through stable yet dynamic structures.
Avoidance of silos and high willingness of teams to cooperate
Optimized use of resources through transparent need-capability mapping
Learn more about the Adaptive Zones Model
For a high-level description of the Adaptive Zones Model, download our business overview here.
If you want the real nitty-gritty, we recommend that you grab a strong coffee and check out our white paper - The Future Adaptive Organization.
While even small parts of the Adaptive Zones Model can bring tangible benefits, If you do want to know what a full transformation to the model would look like, check out our Adaptive Zones transformation journey page.
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