Why do we need it?

A universal truth for any technology company is that success depends on creating the shortest distance between innovation and customer value. With Adaptive Lifecycle Management we have the ability to eliminate that distance; keep pace with our customers’ changing needs, and even run ahead of their expectations.

The transformational value of adaptive collaboration and innovation was proven when we connected our value chain more closely to the development of our intent-based networking value proposition. This led to Cisco’s largest launch in a decade and marked our entry into a new era of software-based networking.

Adaptive Lifecyle Management guides how we:

organize ourselves to continually innovate
evolve processes across our value chain
conceive, build, manage and evolve our solutions

ALM helps us to respond rapidly to customer and market changes.

Why do we need ALM? The answer begins with customer outcomes.

With ALM we are more able to sense our customers’ challenges and opportunities and be more proactive in our creation and development of technology solutions that help them realize the business and technical outcomes they seek – in the shortest time possible.

Our technology is part of a bigger customer business picture that’s changing more frequently and rapidly than ever before. This challenges us to expedite customer adoption of new offers at the right time and scale in order to optimize value and advantage from their technology investments. With ALM our whole company is synchronized and spring-loaded to continually achieve this.

Rather than focusing on output, it’s about being focused on outcomes - with Product Managers becoming ‘Product Coaches’ for teams and the wider business.

ALM evolves product management to collaborative ‘product thinking’.

Does ALM supersede other work efforts?

It doesn’t. ALM is the over-arching model which our work efforts and functional readiness support.

How does this connect with the day job?

That depends on your role. However, our Transformational Mindset underpins everything we do – individually and collectively.

What’s the connection between ALM and Rhythm of the Business?

Rhythm of the Business optimizes, timing, tiering, and capacity to deliver offers to market. ALM makes sure these offers can achieve customers' business and technical outcomes.