WORKPATH FOR PRODUCT ORG. TRANSFORMATION

Transform your product and delivery units into a value stream based organization

Initiate a holistic transformation that improves cross-functional collaboration, accelerates time to market, and drives business performance through more autonomous and outcome oriented teams.

Workpath tool visuals showing how you can track progress and resource spend on value streams and draft common goals in cross-functional teams
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CHALLENGES

Overcoming the challenges of Product Org Transformation

The transformation of a product organization presents several hurdles that lead to failure if not addressed effectively.

1

Process Clarity and Governance

Cross-functional teams regularly struggle due to ill-defined planning and collaboration models. Bureaucratic processes and insufficient governance lead to inefficiencies and misalignment.

2

Alignment in Complex Structures

As teams grow and organize in more hybrid structures, ensuring alignment between units and with overall goals becomes more challenging.

3

Capabilities for Team Autonomy

Teams need new skills and tools to operate autonomously within value streams, driving outcome-oriented planning and prioritization.

4

Budgeting and Resource Allocation

Coordinating resources in a product org structure can lead to budget overruns and unexpected costs due to miscommunication and misaligned goals.

“Nearly 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional.”

Behnam Tabrizi
HBR
Solution

Empower Your Product Organization with Workpath

Transforming your product organization from a function-based to a value stream-oriented structure requires the right tools and capabilities. Workpath supports this transformation by addressing key challenges with tailored solutions.

From

Lack of systematic planning, expectations and clear governance

To

Clear governance and synchronized processes enabling efficient collaboration

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Fighting for local vs. global priorities and misalignment between teams

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Streamlined processes and metrics ensuring all teams align with overall goals

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Managers and teams lack skills, data and tools for effective cross-functional work

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Capabilities for outcome-oriented planning, autonomous prioritization, and hypothesis monitoring are established

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Bureaucratic, political budget process and investments with unclear ROI

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Outcome-oriented budgeting and investment cases with clear business metrics to monitor progress and impact

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Unclear roles in hybrid teams as well as project and metrics without clear owners and dependencies

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Transparent structure of priorities, success metrics, accountable owners and contributions from different stakeholders

prioritization

Prioritize in cross-functional teams and align across all units

Workpath enables dynamic, cross-functional teams to draft shared goals, ensuring clear ownership and accountability. The platform aligns the entire organization on a common planning cadence, allowing teams to request and offer support across unit boundaries, breaking down silos and enhancing collaboration.

Workpath tool visuals showing how you can use the platform to draft AI-powered cross-functional team goals, request or give support across unit boundaries and hence drive clear accountability for metrics.
Workpath tool visual showing how the Conversations feature supports cross-functional teams in visualizing blockers, risks or learnings in their common goals and projects.
efficacy

Drive customer centricity for faster decision making and time-to-market

Workpath’s AI-powered goal setting tool places customer and business value at the center of all goals. Regular check-ins through the Conversations module ensure that outcomes remain a priority in the new organization, and risks are escalated early - for faster course-corrects, better decision-making and shorter time-to-market.

monitoring

Track progress and resource spend on value streams, eliminating waste

Workpath allows you to monitor resource allocation across value streams, distinguishing between strategic and operational work. The Goal Graph helps identify misaligned and underperforming goals, or those without a defined impact, enabling you to eliminate waste and focus on high impact initiatives.

Screenshot of the Workpath goal graph visualizing how goals are connected across teams and units. The Capacity Manager feature shows how resources are spent on value streams.
Jasper Kunow, Managing Director Central Eastern Europe, MSD
Jasper Kunow
Managing Director Central Eastern Europe, MSD

I can highly recommend the collaboration with Workpath’s experts - from initial discovery workshops and deep dives on strategy execution, to joint planning sessions. The expertise we experienced is top of the market and it enabled us as a management team to identify some of the biggest levers for enhancing our organization's execution towards our strategic goals.

Chiara Ehwald from Lufthansa Cargo
Chiara Ehwald
Program Lead, Lufthansa Cargo

Our strategy execution was shaped by Workpath. The relationships between goals became visible, but it also became clear where we need to refine our strategy implementation and which gaps need to be closed.

IMPACT

Workpath's customers have seen significant improvements in the performance and efficiency of their product organizations*

2%

decrease in overall budget variance

3x

speed to market and frequency of informed course corrections

50-70%

reduction in product defects

*Average Workpath customer with 150-200 teams in the onboarded departments, impact seen after 1 year (values can be higher, depending on company size and maturity)

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Ready to transform your Product Organization?

Don't let outdated structures or resistance to change change hold your product organization back. Workpath's comprehensive platform and proven expertise can help you move to a value stream model that drives innovation and delivers continuous value.