7C-CI/CD Process Model for Effective Projects and Processes
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Experience Innovation 7C-CI/CD (CI/CD = Corporate Innovation/ Continuous Delivery) (c) Tolksdorf.digital
7C-CI/CD (CI/CD = Corporate Innovation / Continuous Delivery) by Tolksdorf.digital
From Impulse to Impact
- Continuous innovation from the first impulse through activated engagement to successful transformation. Open exchange, mentoring and AI with a method lead to accepted decisions, secure implementation and the ability to deliver.
- The 7C method focuses on what really drives people: positive experiences. In this way, change loses its terror - and is supported instead of blocked.
Committed to digital transformation for corporate governance and quality management
- This is how value-adding digital innovations are created that are fun and lead into the future.
What 7C stands for
- Compose - Ideas, plans, motives, starting point.
- Connect - Ideas, interested parties, and key individuals.
- Coaching - Facilitate required knowledge, with AI as a companion.
- Co-Create - Design and evaluate prototype models and processes, influence decisions for projects.
- Complete - being implemented project based on project decision.
- Change - Implement project results.
The seventh C - Chat Innovation
- Exchange on equal terms is crucially important during all phases—accompanied by AI.
CI/CD stands for C orporate I nnovation / C ontinuous D elivery
- In other words, continuous innovation in delivery capability at the corporate level to enable sustainable development.
- Not to be confused with continuous integration/continuous delivery from software development.
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The 7C-CI/CD process model is an integral part of Experience Innovation.
Experience Innovation tackles the unpredictability of the world with the motivating guiding principle of “if you like it, do it.” This enables teams to develop common goals, achieve them with a high degree of probability, and discover unexpected, often positive results along the way.
Learn more about Experience Innovation
Questions and Answers (FAQ)
Does the 7C-CI/CD process model also support agile methods such as SCRUM?
The 7C-CI/CD process model supports agile methods such as SCRUM by providing the overarching framework for context, clarity of objectives, and impact. SCRUM can therefore be specifically embedded and deployed.
How can 7C-CI/CD be applied to DevOps?
Similar to SCRUM, DevOps can also be embedded and used in the 7C-CI/CD process model.
Why was 7C-CI/CD named similarly to CI/CD?
The commonality between 7C-CI/CD and CI/CD in software development is continuity. CI/CD has different meanings.
- For innovation (corporate development) to have a lasting effect, continuous financial resources must be invested, which is why companies must be able to deliver continuously in order to generate sales and reach customers.
- The goal of CI/CD in software development, short for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment, is to optimize and accelerate the software development lifecycle (redhat).
How are stage gate innovation processes supported?
Sequential stage processes can also be represented as successive cycles, which also complies with ISO 9001:2015.
How are TOGAF and PROSCI supported by 7C-CI/CD?
7C-CI/CD complements strategic change management such as PROSCI with concrete implementation in practice.
- PROSCI / ADKAR from the Project and Change Management Learning Center offers employees a value framework for change. SMEs often embody this with their own culture of innovation.
- 7C-CI/CD ensures that concrete, effective projects are created that are readily used in everyday life.
- PROSCI/ADKAR and 7C-CI/CD can complement each other, enabling successful change with structure, impact, and attitude.
7C-CI/CD and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
- 7C-CI/CD forms the holistic, practice-oriented framework for 360° business and innovation—we see TOGAF as a connectable architecture standard that can be integrated as needed, but does not dominate.
How does 7C-CI/CD fit in with ISO 9001:2015 quality management?
7C can also be represented as the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle of ISO 9001:2015. William Denning, founder of this quality management approach, preferred “Plan - Do - Learn - Act” to emphasize the learning organization, which is also in line with ISO 9001:2015 and 7C-CI/CD.