EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is not simply a technology upgrade or a new set of agile rituals. EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation looks at the wider operating model: how strategy, investment, teams, governance, and leadership can work together to help an organization respond to change and focus on value.

Connect strategy to work that matters

Jim Highsmith, Linda Luu, and David Robinson describe EDGE as an adaptive, value-centered approach to organizational change. The book considers how leaders can link a shared direction to portfolios and initiatives, revisit investment choices as strategies evolve, and make decisions with collaboration and learning in view.

From technology at the core to a product mindset

The discussion begins with the place of technology in a digital enterprise, then develops the principles behind the EDGE model. Later chapters explore building a value-driven portfolio, measuring and prioritizing value, and adopting a product mindset. Together, these topics help frame transformation as an ongoing way of organizing and making choices—not a one-time project.

Practical questions for leaders and teams

• Portfolio and investment: Explore the Lean Value Tree and approaches to allocating and prioritizing work.
• Governance and decision-making: Consider lightweight governance alongside autonomous teams and collaborative decisions.
• Execution and adaptation: Examine how strategic and business-as-usual portfolios can fit together, and how adaptive leadership supports change.

For people shaping organizational change

This book is especially relevant to business and technology leaders, managers, and practitioners working with digital strategy, enterprise agility, product portfolios, or organizational transformation. Its broad scope makes it useful for readers who need to think beyond a single framework or department and consider how the pieces of change reinforce one another.

EDGE offers a structured way to examine the relationship between strategy and execution—and to ask whether an organization’s decisions, funding, and ways of working are keeping pace with its ambitions.