
How Unilever Elevated Agile
By looking past the buzzwords and embracing enterprise agility, the company put strategy into action to deliver better, faster, and stronger results.
Agile helps organizations move from rigid to resilient, transforming how they get work done. Read about the benefits of agile and how it can spark innovation and growth in the digital age.
Agile ways of working stress collaboration and responsiveness. Cross-functional teams break down the walls within organizations while iterative cycles mean feedback, and improvements, are incorporated quickly.
Agile teams build solutions—and solve problems—in a faster yet more-targeted way. Born in software development, but widely applicable, agile can double speed to market and increase customer satisfaction by 10% to 20%. Agile ways of working are not just a methodology. They are a catalyst for success.
Agile at Scale
Extending agile’s principles—and benefits—throughout an organization is both essential and challenging. Our agile-at-scale framework guides the way.
By looking past the buzzwords and embracing enterprise agility, the company put strategy into action to deliver better, faster, and stronger results.
The shift from standalone hardware to smart, connected products is pervasive—and it’s here to stay. Forward-thinking hardware companies are taking leadership positions in a new era of product development. Will you be one of them?
Survey questions reveal three key findings that can help transform companies into truly agile workplaces.
Implementing agile ways of working and fractal organization principles can help companies build the resilience to succeed in uncertain times.
Agile principles can enhance the performance of marketing organizations––as long as companies apply the principles flexibly rather than adhering strictly to agile methodology.
Agile operating principles can improve the customer experience while lowering costs and reducing resolution time.
Companies can reduce costly delays and add value by building agile into their factories.
Agile ways of working can help companies tackle—and achieve breakthrough performance in—key digital topics, such as outsourcing, data analytics, and planning for digital transformation and technology investments.
At many organizations, problems scaling agile can be traced to problems scaling agile coaching.
The tech team can emerge from the shadows and become an engine of value creation rather than a cost center.
Platform-based organizations are in the best position to master the intertwining of technology and people that is vital to becoming a bionic company.
Technology moves too fast for a traditional IT transformation. With agile, companies can begin seeing results in months.
As a result of its new approach, the payments giant improved speed to market, product fit, and efficiency.
Ista CEO Hagen Lessing explains why he believes every company can benefit from adopting an agile-at-scale management system.
Six steps can help insurers build a robust balance of technology and human enablers to ensure short-, medium-, and long-term success.
In 2018, OP Financial Group owned a solid share of Finland’s home mortgage, corporate loan, and nonlife insurance markets. But the company, the nation’s biggest banking and insurance institution, needed to act faster to keep up with a more competitive business environment and new technologies.
Agile continues to deliver extraordinary benefits: in just three months, a team delivered a complex, high-profile product that normally would have taken a year.
An aerospace company reduced the development time for an aircraft door from four years to just 18 months. Serge Bérenger explains the approach it took.
Agile continues to deliver extraordinary benefits: in just three months, a team delivered a complex, high-profile product that normally would have taken a year.
Can the two approaches help each other open up the last bastion of traditional corporate management to new ways of working?
Managers are lost in a transition between the death of one form of management and the birth of another. Here’s how some organizations are successfully transitioning to agile.
Good leaders thrive during crises. Instead of pretending to know all the answers, they help their teams navigate uncharted territory together.