VALUE STREAM AND PRODUCT OPERATING MODELS

We help improve the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of how organisations deliver value by pivoting them from being project to product aligned

CLIENT CHALLENGE

Many organisations are traditionally organised by functional specialism over alignment to the customer or stakeholder outcomes

In an increasingly changing environment organisations being traditionally organised face higher risk of underperforming as they are:

Not aligned and organised by outcomes making it harder to deliver value to customers and not focused on the highest value outcomes

Slow to respond due to too many silos and dependencies to manage

Experiencing worsening employee engagement as employees struggle to connect their work with the ultimate purpose and high friction to get things done

Expensive to operate due to high levels of duplication and bureaucracy

Finding they have a high orchestrator to producer ratio which is slowing the organisation down

EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK

  • We supported the world’s leading investment banking Markets business in transitioning to a product operating model, working closely with teams responsible for building and maintaining their strategic trade management and pricing system in moving from being organised by capability to being organised by value streams.
  • We implemented more effective, aligned, and collaborative planning and prioritisation, resulting in a 73% increase in flow velocity over the quarter and improved outcome delivery.
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  • We supported Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) with their agility journey, initially introducing agile ways of working to 100 colleagues in technology and subsequently broadening the initiative to the wider organisation.
  • We designed the value stream operating model and introduced an agile culture. This enabled SPW to deliver more value through improved delivery and a stronger focus on prioritisation of business outcomes, primarily freeing up advisor capacity to give more advice to more people and converting more clients in the sales process.
  • With our help, SPW was able to reduce marketing collateral, re-engage client prospects, increase conversion rate, and significantly improve client satisfaction.
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  • We designed and implemented a Product Operating Model, bringing together the business, digital programme, and traditional technology delivery capability.
  • We mobilised cross-functional teams, agile ways of working and transitioned the traditional PMO to an Agile Portfolio Office (APO) to focus on the business’s strategic priorities and deliver more predictable and incremental value.
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WHAT WE DO

JCURV helps improve the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of how organisations deliver value by pivoting them from being project to product aligned.
We help transform performance by:

Running health checks with the organisations to understand strengths and areas of opportunity to improve performance via operating model changes

Upskilling and mobilising teams around Team Topologies and agile operating models

Value stream and operating model design

Change management support to transition the organisation, iteratively, to the target state

Helping organisations to build their continuous organisation design and team topologies skills so that they can continuously refresh their organisation design

OUR PERSPECTIVES

Pivot To Product: The Power Of The North Star Metric

By Paul Krasilnick | April 25, 2024 |

In the race for successful product development, speed often takes centre stage. But amid the frenzy of fast flow, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly drives value. Imagine being part of a product team, caught in the perpetual race of delivering features at lightning speed, wondering if they truly matter. In this relentless…

Pivoting to a product-based operating model: mobilising your first value stream

By Paul Krasilnick | April 25, 2024 |

In today’s dynamic world, adaptability is key to survival. Traditional, rigid structures are giving way to more fluid, product-centric operating models that emphasise value delivery and customer satisfaction. In a recent point of view, we highlighted that organisations that have pivoted to a product-centric operating model are outperforming their peers by 4x. The benefits of…

Product Value Stream based Operating Models: Where are you on the journey?

By Paul Krasilnick | April 25, 2024 |

Companies that are product value stream aligned  outperform their peers by 4x.  Organising by value stream enables companies to achieve faster delivery, higher quality, and higher customer satisfaction through:  When working with leaders to determine where they are on their journey to being product and E2E Value Stream aligned, we have found the below diagram…

Why Shift to Product?

By Paul Krasilnick | April 25, 2024 |

Organisations are increasingly recognising the limitations of the traditional project-based approach and are instead shifting towards a product-centric model to effectively respond to the fast-paced business landscape. This transition is not merely a matter of semantics; it represents a fundamental reorientation towards sustainable value creation and customer-centricity. The shift from projects to products represents a…

Why It’s Time to Design Your Digital Workforce of Tomorrow, Today

By Paul Krasilnick | April 22, 2024 |

Where we stand, today As both leaders and colleagues we are facing an unprecedented level of digital disruption, budgetary pressures, and increasing demand to deliver the right talent to the right place at the right time across the workforce. With the abundance of ongoing technology investment GenAI and automation are simultaneously meant to simplify and…

Habits That Stick: Leveraging ‘Atomic Habits’ for Lasting OKR Success

By Anusha Nandi | March 6, 2024

Imagine strolling through Norwich train station, your eyes catch a book titled “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. Curiosity piqued, you pick it up, not realizing it’s about to provide the ‘missing piece of the jigsaw’ in your approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) implementations. Over my last eight years diving deep into the world…

By Anusha Nandi | February 27, 2024

Exciting News! JCURV And Quantive Join Forces We’re delighted to announce JCURV‘s new partnership with Quantive, the market-leading platform for turning strategy into results, with world-class solutions that include purpose-built OKR software to empower teams to rapidly plan, align, execute and adapt strategy. This exciting alliance will allow us to support Quantive‘s expanding demand for consulting within…

An Agile Approach To Future Proof Your Business Strategy

By Anusha Nandi | February 19, 2024

When it comes to developing a company strategy, whether that’s over 1, 5 or 10 years, taking the first step can seem daunting. There are so many unknowns and questions. What if the world changes dramatically and what we write now is wrong within months? Who are the right teams and stakeholders to involve developing…

Discussing findings from our latest Agile Culture Survey with the Agile Business Consortium

By Kieran Mckeown | January 30, 2024

JCURV’s Vikram Jain and Georgie Povey recently took part in an Agile Business Consortium panel discussion discussing the findings from our latest Agile Culture Survey. Key takeaways that stirred the conversation: 1. Leadership’s Substantial Impact on Business AgilityThere is an undeniable influence leaders have over business agility. Their actions and decisions ripple through the organisation,…

How Organisations That Pivot To Product Outperform Their Peers By 4x 

By Anusha Nandi | January 15, 2024

In a world grappling with economic uncertainty, organisations navigating towards a product-centric model outshine peers by 4x. The shift brings agility, aligning teams to value streams, reducing dependencies, optimising workflows, and minimising management overhead. Discover the key ingredients propelling these organisations forward.