In the age of the customer you need to move fast to compete with the digital upstarts. Creating a small responsive development capability is easy. Quickly delivering complex solutions at scale is diffi cult.
Enterprise Agile exploits early-and-often value delivery using expert scaled Agile teams. Cost control and the need to scale quickly mean that o ffsite or off shore delivery is a must. But how do you leverage competitive distributed teams without losing the responsiveness and flexibility of co-location?
Mastek Executive Forum with FW De Klerk
Most of us may never be tasked with the mammoth responsibility that Nobel Prize winner and former South African President FW De Klerk had to take on whilst working alongside Nelson Mandela to end apartheid in South Africa. What we can do is learn from those experiences and apply them to overcome our day-to-day business challenges. This is exactly what a selection of guests at Mastek’s Executive Forum did at The Ritz in London yesterday.
The iCMG (Internet Component Management Group) awarded HSCIC (Health and Social Care Information Centre) the Enterprise & IT Architecture Excellence Award 2015 in the Healthcare category. The award was bestowed for the architecture, design and development of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) system.
McKinsey&Company’s Diversity Matters project found that companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.
Differing performance levels from companies in the same industry and the same country imply that diversity is a competitive differentiator. The most important drivers that McKinsey identified were: