Use Cross Functional Teams for Success

1. Transformation, resilience,
composability and ..
The Workplace of the Future!

2. Many competing forces accelerating change….
** How are your Digital Initiatives making you more
resilient? Are you prepared for the future?
Source: Gartner®, “IT-Business “Fusion” Teams and How They Can Deliver Innovation”, By Enterprise Architecture Research
Team, 15 Nov 2021. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and
internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

3. Many Brilliant Influences guide resilience:

4. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
-CHARLES DARWIN
“
The FUTURE is COMPOSABLE …..
“
Let’s Explore: What do Jazz Musicians and Successful IT leaders have in common that
make them resilient?

5. Transforming the Digital Business Ecosystem is complex
5
“Simplifying” is critical to manage complexity:
Source: Gartner®, “The Gartner Digital Ecosystem Framework: How to Describe Ecosystems in the Digital Age”, Fabio
Chesini, Richard Hunter, Hung LeHong, Refreshed 10 May 2021, Published 9 January 2020

6. Wave 2
• Agile Teams
• Monolithic Apps &
APIs
• Product Transition
• Micro Services/Serverless
• IIoT / Industrial Cloud
• Platform Ecologies
• Business Model Innovation
• Block Chain
• Cognitive Systems
• Autonomous Systems
• Self-Optimizing Products
• Self-Organizing Services
• Artificial Intelligence
IT Collaboration Automation Orchestration Augmented Intelligence
Wave 1
Wave 3
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Elastic Cloud
• Containers
• Programmable
Infrastructure- IaaS
Wave 4
Digital Transformation Journey
Navigating & Exploiting the Disruptive Waves of Technology
What “wave” are you in? Are you truly composable?
Source: “The Age of Surge” a Transformation Book by Brad Murphy, Dr. Carol Mase

7. Wave 2
• Agile Teams
• Monolithic Apps &
APIs
• Product Transition
• Micro Services/Serverless
• IIoT / Industrial Cloud
• Platform Ecologies - PaaS
• Business Model Innovation
• Cognitive Systems
• Autonomous Systems
• Self-Optimizing Products
• Self-Organizing Services
• Artificial Intelligence
IT Collaboration Automation Orchestration Augmented Intelligence
Wave 1
Wave 3
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Elastic Cloud
• Containers
• Programmable
Infrastructure- IaaS
Wave 4
Digital Transformation Journey
The Long Pole is NOT Technology… But the Org Itself
The Stuck Zone
The Real Wave Impediment:
Overly Complex, Bureaucratically Controlled Hierarchies
Source: “The Age of Surge” a Transformation Book by Brad Murphy, Dr. Carol Mase

8. 8
We Are No Longer Constrained by What is Possible…
Digital
Innovation
Is Now
Limited By
This Reality

9. LOB 2
LOB 1 LOB 3 LOB 4 LOB 5
Company
This is NOT an Agile Operating Model…
Cross
Disciplinary
Agile
IT Teams
Digital / IT
Source: “The Age of Surge” a Transformation Book by Brad Murphy, Dr. Carol Mase

10. “First Wave” of the future - Visionary IT
Leaders to Lead the Way to Fusion teams
Gartner Research: A fusion team is a multidisciplinary team that shares
accountability for business and technology outcomes. Instead of organizing work by
functions or technologies, fusion teams are typically organized by the cross-cutting
business capabilities, business outcomes or customer outcomes they support.

11. Fusion teams are already here!
Source: Gartner®, “IT-Business “Fusion” Teams and How They Can Deliver
Innovation”, By Enterprise Architecture Research Team, 15 Nov 2021.

12. How do we build on
this success and
become composable?
Source: Gartner®, “IT-Business “Fusion” Teams and How They Can Deliver Innovation”, By Enterprise
Architecture Research Team, 15 Nov 2021.

13. Sell the need: “Composable” drives resilience and
revenue:
**The delta in performance of a traditional process-based
business versus a composable one is impactful!
This also means the old ways of working will not work –
something must change…
Source: Gartner®, “2022 CIO and Technology Executive Agenda: Global Perspectives on ‘Master Business
Composability to Succeed in Uncertain Times’”, By Andy Roswell-Jones, Monika Sinha, Jan-Martin
Lowendahl , Mark Fabbi , Ian Cox , Nicole Sturgill , Tomas Nielson ,18 January 2022.

14. No Need to Re-Org… Adaptive Leaders & Networks
Can Transition to This Operating Model TODAY
Source: “The Age of Surge” a Transformation Book by Brad Murphy, Dr. Carol Mase

15. Engage teams: New “Composable” Ways of Working & Platforms
that support the “Fusion” teams:
Are your teams “Jazzed”?
Source: Gartner®, “IT-Business “Fusion” Teams and How They
Can Deliver Innovation”, By Enterprise Architecture Research
Team, 15 Nov 2021

16. Modular, building blocks, orchestrated simply, discover new
opportunities / creativity:
Are your teams “Jazzed”?
Source: Gartner®, “Becoming Composable: A Gartner Trend Insight
Report”, Yefim Natis, Janelle Hill, Partha Iyengar , Gene Alvarez , Jennifer
Loveland , Chris Howard 17 September 2021.

17. “Composable” can leverage the incubator model:

18. The 3 Most Important “Composable” Moves To
Make Right Now to become Resilient:
Shift from Functional Silo’s to End-to-End Product / Service / Experience
Operating Models & Platforms. Build on existing teams & platforms to start…
1
Create a startup like environment! Craft new teaming structures that
accelerate decision making and foster strategic experimentation and learning
2
Transform / Upskill the Manager Role…
• Builder of High-Performance Product/Service Teams
• Horizontal Navigator – Facilitating delivery of Value to Customers
through Influence, Engagement and Network Orchestration
3

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www.gartner.com
My Contact Details:
bill.pierce@jax.org
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“Moments” of composability are an instant of time or an event that requires the
organization to dynamically adapt or respond to create value.