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True Enterprise Agility Lies Beyond the Agile Hype
Merely adopting scrum and organizing teams into squads has not delivered on the promise of increased agility that so many organizations hoped for. The So What When companies decide to change their ways of working, they tend focus most of their effort on adopting agile ceremonies, such as sprints, standups, and retrospectives, as these are highly visible and easy to implement. Yet true enterprise agility demands a transformation of the entire operating model.
How Unilever Elevated Agile
It’s time to stop thinking about agile ways of working only in terms of individual scrum teams, daily standups, and sticky notes. Agile can be those things. But extending agile principles from isolated teams and initiatives to the entire enterprise unleashes something even more powerful. Unilever discovered the full extent of that power when the global consumer goods company elevated agile ways of working to the enterprise level to execute its corporate strategy.
What 11,500 Employees Say About Agile Transformation
Survey questions reveal three key findings that can help transform companies into truly agile workplaces. At most companies, agile is still a work in progress. Teams at some organizations have achieved breakthrough results. Others are agile in name only, adopting the lingo but not changing the underlying organizational dynamics.
Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
Agile has proved its value in industries far afield from software, where it was born. But when companies expand agile beyond the pilot phase, they often run into challenges as friction develops between traditional and agile teams. At this tipping point, senior leaders face a crucial choice.
Agile at Scale - Enterprise Agile Transformation
It appears your browser does not support JavaScript or you have it disabled. BCG.com will work better for you if you enable JavaScript or switch to a JavaScript supported browser. How to Make Agile at Scale Work for Your Organization To succeed, companies embarking on an agile transformation must rethink the entire operating model and embrace radical change.
How to Remain Remotely Agile Through COVID-19
Choose your location to get a site experience tailored for you. Remember my region and language settings Related Expertise:People & Organization, Behavior & Culture, Technology & Digital March 24, 2020 By Benjamin Rehberg , Martin Danoesastro , Shilpa Kaul , and Liza Stutts One of the pillars of agile ways of working is team collocation. Study after study shows that teams that work together in the same place report higher productivity and effectiveness and better decision making.
How embroidery is helping women in Pakistan stand up to honor killings and inequality
Khalida Brohi (TED Talk: How I work to protect women from honor killings) grew up traveling between two very different parts of Pakistan: the bustling city of Karachi, where her parents moved so that she and her sisters could go to school, and a small village in Balochistan, where her family has its roots. Brohi got a modern education, and also developed a deep reverence for her tribal traditions. Those two threads often tangled — especially when it came to the treatment of women.
What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?
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Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
The FINANCIAL -- Agile has proved its value in industries far afield from software, where it was born. But when companies expand agile beyond the pilot phase, they often run into challenges as friction develops between traditional and agile teams. At this tipping point, senior leaders face a crucial choice.
A CEO's Guide to Digital Transformation
Choose your location to get a site experience tailored for you. Remember my region and language settings Related Expertise:Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Business Model Innovation May 22, 2017 By Martin Danoesastro , Grant Freeland , and Tom Reichert This article is part of an ongoing series exploring changes in the workplace and in the nature of work.
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