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Based in Singapore, Paul and his team are responsible for enabling the bank’s strategic agenda to build a strong digital foundation by driving ambitious innovation, data-driven decision making and an Agile start-up culture, anchored in excellence in customer and employee experiences.

The largest industrial conglomerate in Turkey, which is the only company in the country to enter the Fortune Global 500 list as of 2016, shares experience on overcoming hard times and staying on the growth path.

It is much more difficult (but satisfying) to nurture a healthy, natural eco-system where the object of creation (Product) iterates as much as the creators (People).

I would like to take the time to share a succinct & connecting of the dots & of exactly how behaviour shift, values and strategy could lead to extraordinary results in achieving new ways of working.

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

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.

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

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?

The CEO of RBI announced his intention to turn his bank into an agile organization by 2021.

An important part of our agile journey is that we chose a top down approach right from the start and thus the management team.

In order to realize a much more shorter time to market we needed another approach.

[Our] transformation led to the creation of the Sorting Room, a visualisation of the state of the organisation and its strategic initiatives, as well as related cultural and process changes.

Pair trading is a technique to improve the productivity and quality of stock trading (or any type of financial trading, e.g. commodities).

Does an industry like investment banking, with its myriad controls and regulations, need more governance?

The quality of our daily interactions with work colleagues determines how fast and how well we communicate, collaborate, and learn together to achieve successful outcomes.

In 2015, after growing to 150 people, Fraedom established a practice model inspired by Spotify patterns.

Teams have increased the velocity with which they release new campaigns, spend more time on communication activities that drive customer value and have improved cooperation among the disciplines and with stakeholders.

This is an experience report of the journey to adopt agile and lean principles and practices across Barclays Group.

Learn the holistic transformation approach they selected and what were the challenges and pitfalls they were confronted with so far.