Summer Festival Workshops

Beyond agile: how the Balanced Management Model offers your organisation superior efficiency, effectiveness and engagement in the post-covid era.

Ruben Smolders from SD Worx Belgium shared the benefits of the balanced model during a Show-off session, initiated by the TRIBE Enterprise Agile Squad.

You want to know how to adopt a New Way for designing agile organisations, without silos or complex matrices? How to create a balanced team with Neuroleadership as key driver and scale innovations safely with the Board, Communities and Guilds? Learn more about the balanced management model pros and cons from Ruben Smolders.

Discover, through the eyes of KBC’s innovators, how to realise start up ideas in a large scale organisation, from idea generation to industrialisation. In this active and dynamic workshop, you will be able to dive in to one of the following stages and explore how KBC Bank's best practices relate to the approach you are choosing in your organisation, Using the 5 phases of innovation:

• Stage 1: Idea Generation and Mobilisation
• Stage 2: Advocacy and Screening
• Stage 3: Experimentation
• Stage 4: Commercialisation
• Stage 5: Diffusion and Implementation

Join Pascal Cuppens, Ingrid Creten & team to skilfully guide you through this workshop and generate new ideas.

According to Gartner, a Cloud Center of Excellence is the best-practice approach to drive cloud-enabled transformation. To ensure cloud adoption success, organisations must have the right skills and structure in place. The optimal way to achieve this is by setting up a centralised cloud center of excellence (CCoE).

In this workshop, we explore another option: work without a CCoE by upskilling existing teams in an existing “vertically organised” IT organisation; while at the same time introducing a more project-

like approach with roadmaps, milestones, communication plans, steerco’s etc. Let’s identify the do’s and don’t in this approach; the lessons learnt at SDWorx; and discuss whether cloud adoption, strategy, governance, automation can be handled “light-weight”.

Having successfully migrated 50 hospitals at the same time, Kris Maertens was part of the team that made this huge migration project from ECC to SAP S/4HANA possible. He will share their approach and the challenges that came alongside, how to have optimal customer involvement, what to keep in mind during execution and the lessons learned throughout the process. Think of timeline control, operational impact, change management and commercial scenario’s and the technical vs the business reality.

How can enterprise architecture help you to prevent taking bad buy vs make decisions, or in other words how can it help you optimizing your IT landscape? We will try to cover this extensive topic by showing how this was executed at VDAB and what the outcomes were. Next we will take you through the decision taking process with interactieve questions and the identification of some crucial dimensions.