Rediscover Business Agility 2019 (NYC)

Our third Business Agility Conference in NYC, was a great success. Nearly 350 people joined us to hear the best stories from companies around the world. 2 days of authentic short stories and facilitated deep dives on all things related to business agility. We challenged delegates to ask themselves; Is your business ready to thrive in an volatile and unpredictable market? Do you know what it means to be a customer and purpose-driven organisation?

Rediscover their stories.

Case Studies

Hear from people who have gone through this journey already.

Coming Together-Agility, Partnership, and Culture. CSG’s Agility Journey

Jill Edmundson | Enterprise Portfolio Management @ CSG International and Lesa Phillips | Enterprise Solution Train Engineer @ CSG International

The Culture of Business Agility by Colby Huggler and Sarah Klarich

Colby Huggler | IT Director @ USAA and Sarah Klarich | Director Business Agility Coaching @ USAA

Stop Talking to Customers and Start Listening to People by Archie Miller

The latest product process fad is talking to at least x-number of customers per week. Taken at face value, “talking to a customer” is pointless for two important reasons.

Holacracy for Humans – Decentralised Leadership in Practice by Sandy Mamoli

Snapper foresaw success and growth and wanted a foundation that would let them add people without adding pain. Thus, they were drawn to Holacracy.

Company Cracks The Code To Human-Centered Employee Development

“It’s time for your performance evaluation.” These six words sucked the life out of Brandon every time they were uttered at work.

A tale of two companies

“We need to transform the way we work.” An easy, but scary statement triggering questions galore.

When opportunity knocks, stand on your head!

Change can be scary and risky, and most organizations begin the change process with small, safe initiatives that have limited potential damage if things go wrong.

How to hire a CEO. With agility.

It is a frequently observed irony that the behavior of agile advocacy bodies often lacks agility.

Adaptive – Crowdsourcing Organizational Design

At the heart of almost every company is an ancient technology that is preventing them from making strategic changes necessary to stay adaptive in the new normal of hyper-competitive markets.

Beyond…

Why and How AirAsia is growing beyond what they're known for, and trying ways to become faster and leaner by growing beyond agile.

Build bridges in a changing world

Ask yourself the question: How do I stay relevant for our customers and for our people in the organization.

Greasing the Gears – Calibrating for Enterprise Business Agility

Unleashing Enterprise Business Agility requires routine maintenance and long-term investments in areas such as architecture and product management; combined with ongoing investment in coaching and training of lean-agile principles to empowered teams.

400% Increase in Time-to-Market in an Unexpected Domain

The award-winning success of the CKW Group is a striking lesson in how to achieve significant improvement in time-to-market with numerous other benefits.

There is an “i” in agility

"The problem with this thing is…” He had picked up the tome of a budget book. “… it's worthless. It tells me nothing about the risk or opportunities we're facing. We all know the numbers in here are completely made up. I can't manage the business with this."

From Theory to Practice: Design Thinking That Drives Performance

Learn how M&M’s Retail used Design Thinking to grow its B2B channel – taking them in a directions they didn’t expect and quicker than they thought possible.

From Slow-and-Steady to Agile-and-Steady

When external competition isn’t a significant driving factor for change, what motivates a company to invest time, effort and dollars into shifting the way it works?

Further Reading

Want to go deeper? Read (and watch) more details about specific areas of Business Agility.

This is the dawning of the age of agility

Working at the intersection of business and education to help both sectors succeed in the Age of Agility.