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ITIL 4 (IT Infrastructure Library) is giving the term service management office (SMO) a new type of special importance. Its namesake, the project management office (PMO), is already widely known and established. But what are the differences between these management offices, and what are their respective advantages? I will be answering this very question in the following blog post.

In a rapidly changing environment, where needs, markets and technologies are changing at an ever-increasing pace, it is important not to lose focus and to adapt to the speed of these changes. This jungle can be described using the acronym VUCA – which is short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. In this blog post, we will explain exactly what this means and how to escape the VUCA world.

This blog post answers the question of whether the greenfield or brownfield approach is the better choice and whether there even is a better or worse choice in this context.

Legacy application modernisation is a much-discussed topic at the moment. It is an issue that concerns 90 per cent of mainframe users who are in search of a solution to their dependency on mainframes. Why is this an issue? What solutions are available on the market? What is the current situation today and what services can adesso transformer offer to replace legacy systems? Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to legacy application modernisation? I explore these questions in my blog post.

It is not only the choice of method that teams use to embark on the journey to an agile working environment that plays a critical role in its success. The success or failure of many agile transformations is often down to a mysterious force in the company that is repeatedly addressed but the impact of which is regularly underestimated – the corporate culture. This blog post will explain how it can influence agility.

Although agile project methods are now increasingly spreading out of software development into a wide range of business areas, compliance departments and compliance projects are usually neglected in the agile transformation. With that in mind, I would like to use my blog post to explore the question of whether compliance departments and projects can benefit from agile methods and approaches that involve an iterative and transparent approach.

Dealing with data is becoming an indispensable core skill and one that is always needed when companies want to make decisions and answer new questions regarding organisation, processes, strategy, products and services. The organisation, processes and responsibilities across all organisational levels must revolve around data. In my blog post, I will present the topics that a company should focus on in this regard.

No Scrum values, no successful application. The Scrum Guide leaves us with many uncertainties. We have to find a solution ourselves using the values and framework. However, applying Scrum successfully depends on whether people are able to live out the five Scrum values. In my blog post, I will show you why this is important.

In part one of the blog post, my colleague Isabelle Meiller laid out how you can use marketing automation to acquire new customers. Maybe you are already seeing results with the first new order or purchase from one of your new customers. You now have to take the next step in order not to lose them. What can you do to ensure that your newly acquired customers remain loyal to your company or your brand and that they will continue to purchase or use the products and services you offer? I will show you how in part two of our blog post.