Blurring Application Boundaries
Chandan Lal Patary
Empowering Business Transformation | Author of 8 Insightful Guides | The Scrum Master Guidebook | The Product Owner Guidebook | The High Performance Team Coaching Guidebook | The Leadership Guidebook
Most of us, as a coach, are dealing with finding product value streams
Challenge is to ask how the value stream evolved and what the next step should be to optimize the current value flow.
We all know, in our discovery of optimized value flow, we discover the disturbing value flow due to the application’s hands-off
Application landscape causes significant bottlenecks to achieve minimize the lead time
These applications are driven by the applications owners/Departments
People exist for a job to be performed! They will protect their jobs!
They will justify why that job, that flow, that application is sooooo important, for that organization will not exist!
In the value flow discovery, we realize that we need to minimize the application boundaries, and remove some of the outdated applications!
We need to find within and outside the organization where can we blur the application boundaries
Among all these, product research, implementation, and consulting, if any, application boundaries need to blur
Where is knowledge flow and information flow stuck due to these applications boundaries?
Irvin is the product manager for a large pharma manufacturing chain
He is thinking about boundaryless organizations. Establishing such is a major challenge for legacy organizations.
Over a period of time, there are thick walls created within the organization
People do not talk elephant in the room due to internal political pressure
To create an innovative product and solution for the fast-paced pharma market, Irvin needs to blur the organization’s boundaries. There are many vendors and vendor applications which are helping today to complete the end-to-end flow.
He also has an in-house product created by someone some years back, no more, with the organization.
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He was set to consolidate all, and get mad, by looking at the application portfolios!
The amount of money invested to maintain those outdated applications is immense!
This application blurring initiative is a major drive to consolidate and recreate the future. This was a strategic initiative started a few months back by top management to optimize the operation cost.
Where to start? What does Irvin do? Who can help? What expertise is needed to drive such work?
Every product, application, solution, and department is important in the end-to-end value chain!! How can that be true?
Irvin did a customer discovery journey maping exercise.
Irvin did a user discovery journey mapping exercise.
The exercise was so complex; he had to find skilled people to discover this application landscape.
Some teams are using the out-of-the-box?solution, some?teams are customizing the out-of-the-box?solutions, some?teams are building in-house applications, etc
In the value, chain path
Some of the areas are using out-of-the-box integrated solutions, some are?custom made
Irvin needs to consolidate these and come out with better digital end-to-end solutions ( either build or buy)
What question does Irvin need to ask?
There are already users using these pharma products in the market. Business continuation is one of the important elements that need?to?be taken care of.
How can we help Irvin?