agility

Australia’s skills shortage creating automation stall, says Accenture
One in four Australian organisations can’t find the necessary talent to implement their data solutions, significantly more than the global average, according to research from Accenture released today. Local companies have told Accenture the talent drought is holding back automation and agile work practices, with less than one in 20

Organisations’ top priority is agility following pandemic disruption: CEO survey
Most CEOs will “aggressively pursue” more agility over the coming years in response to the chaos of 2020, according to a global survey of 3,000 business chiefs and public sector leaders. Emerging technology and empowering an increasingly remote workforce are how leaders plan to achieve more readiness, according to IBM,

Embrace the Good in Good Enough to Drive Greater Marketing Agility
A key component of marketing agility is helping marketers understand the trade-offs between the benefits and the costs of constant “improvements”. A silver lining of the past few months has been the surprising moments of agility marketing teams found during a time of high uncertainty. Overnight, marketers successfully transitioned to

Embrace the Good in Good Enough to Drive Greater Marketing Agility
A key component of marketing agility is helping marketers understand the trade-offs between the benefits and the costs of constant “improvements”. A silver lining of the past few months has been the surprising moments of agility marketing teams found during a time of high uncertainty. Overnight, marketers successfully transitioned to

Agility is critical to meeting customer expectations
The change agenda sits at the heart of board conversations about company performance and strategy. And often the biggest pain point companies have to overcome is the pace of change, ever-accelerating and often driven by the transformative impact of technology. Technological transformation is driven by two competitive drivers. On the

How visibility, control and agility aids business growth: Netsuite VP
There are three important factors to help businesses unlock their true blueprint for growth: visibility, control and agility. This is according to Paul Farrell, VP product marketing at Netsuite who spoke to attendees at this year’s SuiteConnect conference in Sydney this morning. During his presentation, Farrell discussed these three factors

12-week agile sprints helped change our entire IT culture, says Heritage Bank CIO
Needing to deliver a brand new IT project – Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) – within a tight timeframe, Heritage Bank turned outward for help. But rather than ask a consultancy or look for off the shelf products, the bank asked an open source software company for help. Australia’s largest

Companies are preparing for organisational change but few are agile: Report
Facing a future filled with uncertainty, businesses know they need to transform but building the workforce required to realise that goal is an ongoing challenge. According to Mercer’s Talent Trends Global Report, when it comes innovation, 96 per cent of companies are planning organisation redesign, yet only 18 per cent

Agile Strategies to deliver customer experiences: Cyara CTO
Agile methodologies are the key to delivering flawless customer experiences, according to Aussie startup Cyara’s chief technology officer Luan Tran. In an exclusive interview with Which-50, Tran said the customer focus was driving the shift to agile but Australia is lagging. Sign up for Which-50’s Irregular Insights newsletter “A truly

With agility, speed and innovation in their DNA the insurgents are coming for the banks: McKinsey
Non bank attackers are treating payments as a beach head for an assault on the wider banking relationship according to McKinsey & Company and they are succeeding in defining the standards for digital banking. The insurgents range from small nimble startups to large telcos and according to the management consultants