Building an Agile Mindset: 7 Core Elements

In today’s dynamic environment, your organization, like many, is transforming and driving strategic initiatives. These efforts are crucial to maintain a competitive edge.

Organizations like yours face tremendous pressure to collaborate, innovate, and adapt to changing business circumstances. On top of that, you’re navigating hybrid workplace environments stressed by the mass switch to work-from-home. When your employees can’t reliably use their technology, you could be alienating your most talented people. As a result, you could be wasting time and money and could experience more employee turnover than desired.

Nearly every large organization in today's modern economy has either already embarked upon or is seriously considering adopting a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate digital transformation and gain the benefits of cloud computing.

Your ClearPath Forward environment offers the stability and predictability vital to your business's continuous operation. Change remains a constant, though, and you probably feel pressure to fulfill a cloud-first strategy and adopt the latest technologies the moment they hit the market. But opting for something different—whether it's a new market entrant or an industry off-the-shelf package—means setting yourself up for cycles of constant change.

Employees come to work seeking the same joyful relationship with their technology that they experience as a consumer. They expect devices and software to be easy to use and collaboration to be intuitive—far from the reality in modern workplaces.

Digital transformation has brought much-needed scalability and agility to commercial businesses and government agencies alike, improving efficiency and fostering innovation. It has also introduced a new set of security risks and risk enablers.

Whether it’s operations, performance, or availability, you need to know your environment will work as expected day in, day out. And that’s exactly what you get with the proven ClearPath Forward environment. It runs high volumes of transactions without interruption. It minimizes the risk of data breaches.

Commercial businesses and government agencies are all coping with a dramatic rise in compliance burdens. Every data breach drives a raft of new regulations, especially in the cloud—and these regulations will only continue to evolve and grow in volume.

When you roll out new software or systems, adoption lags. You might see only 10% of your workforce using new technology, while some reject it altogether. Partially, that’s because they don’t understand the value or relevance of upgrades and updates.

You’ve spent years building the ClearPath Forward applications that define and drive your operations. But it’s not about keeping things as they are anymore—it’s about expanding them and connecting them to new digital services and the cloud. Failing to evolve will prevent you from gaining the agility to respond to changing regulatory, commercial, and user requirements.