Modernizing organizations have begun to transition away from sales-driven, project-oriented operational models, towards customer-driven, product-oriented models in order to become more responsive and effective.
Organizational culture and inertia have consistently proven to be a challenge for leaders who are shifting to new working models prioritizing continuous value delivery above all else. The mindset and operational shift from delivery management to value stream management is a steep change.
Most CxO’s who find themselves in this position consistently ask themselves:
What can we do to break through this friction and conflict?
What are the first steps to start initiating change?
Culture is made up of every person, process and protocol in the organisation. Leaders often underestimate their influence in shaping an organization’s culture, so as a CxO if you want to take an organisation on a value stream transition journey, you must create the context and the environment for meaningful and long-lasting change. Each and every environment is different so there isn’t a one size fits all approach to change.
The importance of leadership support to be active and productive voices in the conversation cannot be understated. While change is led in both directions (i.e. top down and bottom up), leaders must use the right language for the transformation to be felt throughout the organization. The first important step is education for yourself if the concepts are new to you.
In this session, learn how to get you and your organization started with culture, tools, education, and practices to create micro-change ultimately leading to macro, long lasting impact in your environment.
Sejal Amin is a senior technology executive and product development expert with over 25 years of experience leading large teams through cultural, operational and technology transformation for SaaS initiatives.
Currently, she is the Chief Product and Technology Officer for Khoros, a Vista Portfolio company where she has been integrating a distributed Product and Technology organisation while defining a Product and Operational strategy to execute on the company's vision and growth goals. Prior to this, she was CTO for the Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting Tax Professionals Business.
She has a wide range of technology leadership experience across several business units at Thomson Reuters managing global product development teams and portfolios of growing size and complexity for 15+ years. Over the years, she led several enterprise-wide transformation initiatives focused on project to product transitions, organisational transformations, technology portfolio redesigns, and building high performance product development cultures to keep pace with a rapidly changing technology environment.
Sejal was recognized on the BT150 Transformational Executive List in 2021 and has a number of professional associations including Board Director for the Value Stream Consortium.
