Achieving strategic agility through business model innovation. The case of telecom industry

IntroductIon: AchIevIng AgIlIty through cAse mAnAgement

Practical Experiences of Agility in the Telecom Industry

This paper discusses the adoption level of and experiences from using agile practices in three software development projects in a large Telecom company. The use of agile practices was more emergent than planned. Project managers and developers simply used practices they considered efficient and natural. The most widely adopted agile practices were to measure progress by working code, to have de...

New ways of innovation: an application of the cyclic innovation model to the mobile telecom industry

New developments in the mobile telecom industry, such as growing transmission bandwidth and sector-crossing business alliances, change the way in which mobile telco’s are innovating. Traditional innovation models, such as the single-company linear model (‘pipeline model’), do no longer describe how innovation occurs today. An interesting alternative is the boundary-crossing Cyclic Innovation Mo...

New ways of innovation: an application of the Cyclical Innovation Model to the mobile telecom industry

New developments in the mobile telecom industry, such as growing transmisson bandwidth and sector-crossing business alliances, change the way in which mobile telco’s are innovating. Traditional innovation models, such as the well-known singlecompany linear model ('pipeline model'), do not describe anymore how innovation occurs in today's practice. An alternative way of looking at innovation is ...

Achieving Agility through Architecture Visibility

L.L.Bean is a large retail organization whose development processes must be agile in order to allow rapid enhancement and maintenance of its technology infrastructure. Over the past decade L.L.Bean’s software code-base had become brittle and difficult to evolve. An effort was launched to identify and develop new approaches to software development that would enable ongoing agility to support the...