CASE
ANONYMOUS CUSTOMER
Product organization to increase customer-centricity, speed and collaboration
A shift in customer demand required improved digital capabilities. As a result, a comprehensive transformation program was initiated to design and develop a new product organization.
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Supported increasing customer-centricity, speed and collaboration
The client, a global telecom company, experienced shifts in customer demands. They were determined that they needed to improve their digital capabilities to increase customer-centricity, speed, and flexibility. As a result, the company started a comprehensive transformation program, including implementing a product organization across their IT organization. Our management consultants supported developing and designing the product organization and ensured that necessary resources and competencies were in place.
The client had identified four main goals with the transformation to a product organization;
- Make it easier to do business with them
- Deliver excellent impact to customers
- Enable customers to grow
- Become a lot faster in their operations.
An overall product organization model was developed – from concept to practical implementation
Knowit was asked to support the cloud services organization within the company to develop and design the product area based on the product organization concept.
Together with key stakeholders in the organization, Knowit formulated a hypothesis on the high-level product team design. The transformation was extensive, so the team decided to start with areas that had specific urgency and priority. The Knowit team supported in designing and dimensioning the product teams and implementing the new organization, including union negotiations and organizational communication. One challenge for the organization was to attain the necessary competence in all product teams, which Knowit also contributed to by supporting the sourcing process of identifying and securing agreements with relevant competence partners. To ensure transparency and ensure alignment with all key stakeholders, Knowit worked in an iterative approach with continuous input and feedback from the different stakeholders and held weekly demos with the management team to present the progress.
New organizational structure ensures unified direction
The project resulted in a new structure for the product organization within the cloud services division. Resources, managers, and responsibilities were clearly defined for each product team, and the necessary competencies were secured. The new product organization balanced team autonomy with centralized control, enabling each team to enhance customer focus, speed, and flexibility, while ensuring a unified direction and stable operations across the company.
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