Agile

Reengineering Your Business for a Smart and Connected World

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?

What 11,500 Employees Say About Agile Transformation

Survey questions reveal three key findings that can help transform companies into truly agile workplaces.

Why Agile Works

Getting optimal results from agile requires a commitment to strategic clarity that is critical yet uncommon.

How CEOs Keep Agile Transformations Moving

Leaders who observe five lessons keep transformations on track.

When the Ground Shifts, It Pays to Be Agile

Agility at scale can move the needle on cost, speed, and resilience simultaneously.

The Future of Customer Service Is Fast, Lean, and Agile

Agile operating principles can improve the customer experience while lowering costs and reducing resolution time.

Lean Manufacturing Demands Agile Production and Support

Companies can reduce costly delays and add value by building agile into their factories.

Agile Works—but Are You Measuring the Impact?

Companies are investing tens of millions of dollars in agile transformations, but efforts to assess the results can go astray. Some companies have cracked the code—with astonishing results.

Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point

The secrets to scaling up this fast and effective new way of working.

Why Your Agile Coaching Isn’t Working—and How to Fix It

At many organizations, problems scaling agile can be traced to problems scaling agile coaching.

Five Ways to Make Platform-Based IT Organizations Work

Platform-based organizations are in the best position to master the intertwining of technology and people that is vital to becoming a bionic company.

An Agile Approach to Digitizing Support Functions

Technology moves too fast for a traditional IT transformation. With agile, companies can begin seeing results in months.

Flipping the Odds of Digital Transformation Success

With so much at stake, why do so many companies fail?

An Agile Fix for Tech Planning

Using Agile to Help Fix Big Data’s Big Problem

How Agile Is Taking Mastercard to the Next Level

As a result of its new approach, the payments giant improved speed to market, product fit, and efficiency.

Brewing an Agile Transformation at Heineken

The Dutch beverage conglomerate began its agile transformation in the IT department, where leadership worked hand-in-hand with other departments as well as with outside suppliers and the company’s employee work council.

Embracing the Human Side of the Bionic Insurer

Six steps can help insurers build a robust balance of technology and human enablers to ensure short-, medium-, and long-term success.

Activating Agile Product-Life-Cycle Management in Automotive

It’s a new world. OEMs that adopt a new approach can improve profits, slash costs, and shorten development cycles.

Finland’s Biggest Financial Group Goes All In on Agile

Agile Sweet Spots in CPG

Lessons from Schneider Electric’s Agile-at-Scale Transformation

Scaling agile requires dedication and effort, especially for a hardware-focused company. But when done right, it can deliver extraordinary results.

Using Agile Methodologies in Aerospace

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.

Deutsche Telekom Gives Customer Service an Agile Makeover

The company couldn’t count on technology alone to remain Germany’s mobile leader, so it adopted new ways of working for customer engagement—with winning results.

The World Bank’s Human Capital Project: A Case Study of Agile in Action

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.

Agile Meets Beyond Budgeting

Can the two approaches help each other open up the last bastion of traditional corporate management to new ways of working?

Agile Traps

Agile is hard—really hard. But when companies don’t commit to planning and execution, they risk falling into one of several known traps.

The End of Management as We Know It

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.

Agile Starts—or Stops—at the Top

To promote agile ways of working, leaders must change their own behaviors.

Is Leadership Your Agile Blind Spot?

Good leaders thrive during crises. Instead of pretending to know all the answers, they help their teams navigate uncharted territory together.

Starting the Agile MythBuster Series: How to Identify and Address Common Agile Myths

As agile becomes standard workplace terminology, we need to demystify common misconceptions to truly understand agile ways of working.

Achieving Organisational Agility at Scale

Companies must look at a combination of “bottom up” and “top down” approaches for a successful agile transformation–but what does that actually mean in practice?