There were three excellent presentations at yesterday's seminar Business Change in the Cloud, and an interesting question and answer session. Summary notes and the presentation slides are:
Change management is an essential element of any Governance process. IndigoBlue's proven approach balances the need for control with the demands of a flexible, responsive Agile process.
- Proven in the world’s largest Agile change programmes
- Effective management without constraining Agility – enabling early ROI
- Enabling stakeholder engagement and control
- Implemented within IndigoBlue’s ADAPT and CONTROL
IndigoBlue brings deep experience and advanced techniques for the successful management of change within Agile programmes.
IndigoBlue’s Agile CIO service provides executive-level support for the strategic and operational management of technology in organisations on a part-time basis, where a full-time CIO is not an option. In this way we help organisations maximise the business benefit of technology through the advice and guidance of seasoned CIO talent.
Our CIOs bring a wealth of executive management experience, typically in blue chip organisations. The amount of their time committed to clients’ businesses is tuned and varied according to the organisations business need.
The skills and experience offered by our CIOs can transform business performance:
IndigoBlue has extensive experience of Cloud technologies and their practical use for business advantage. Our Cloud Strategy helps clients understand, evaluate and access the great potential and business benefits of rapidly maturing Cloud technologies.
Ours is an experience-based approach to Cloud enablement of clients’ businesses. We have implemented cloud solutions in a wide variety of organisations, including:

Our approach to defining and implementing Agile Change Strategy is based on a process of incremental review and execution, designed to bring earliest value to the business within a rigorous framework of managed risk. Proven in over 40 organisations, the approach is highly collaborative at all levels within an organisation and ensures early buy-in for identified change.
Change management is an essential element of any Governance process. IndigoBlue's proven approach balances the need for control with the demands of a flexible, responsive Agile process.
- Proven in the world’s largest Agile change programmes
- Effective management without constraining Agility – enabling early ROI
- Enabling stakeholder engagement and control
- Implemented within IndigoBlue’s ADAPT and CONTROL
IndigoBlue brings deep experience and advanced techniques for the successful management of change within Agile programmes.
The Cloud as a Transformational Business Tool
Overview
The cloud as a technology is neither complex nor interesting. However, what is significant is the truly transformational nature of what it enables business to do. The cloud provides a mechanism by which organisations can significantly reduce costs and complexity, and can execute change quickly with minimal risk. Capital investment in the initial stages of a project using “cloud” is extremely low, and yet ownership costs remain under control even at scale.
The ability to start new initiatives and respond to change quickly and efficiently is truly game changing.
More Information
There were three excellent presentations at yesterday's NFP seminar, and a stimulating and interesting debate about how to get the best out of what is likely to be diminished funding levels in the future. Summary notes and the presentation slides are:
Working in close partnership with clients, IndigoBlue develops business-aligned technology strategies that draw on our deep experience in business change and Agile processes to deliver rapid return and enduring performance advantage.
- Maximising business value through speed to market and early ROI
- Driving business advantage with practical use of latest technology
- Specific expertise in cloud exploitation
- Leverage existing investment through incremental change
- Intelligent governance for and reliability of change with managed and mitigated risk
Strategic Difference
IndigoBlue’s ADAPT and CONTROL provides a comprehensive framework for the governance of incremental projects. Importantly it enables Agile projects to co-exist with more traditional approaches; balancing the requirements for budgetary control and stakeholder visibility with the Agile aims of flexibility and responsiveness.
The governance framework or agile governance model is used in conjunction with a standard Agile processes, such as Scrum. They work in two specific ways: