Agile Transformation

The book presents a model for assessing and systematically improving corporate agility in businesses. Agility enhances a company’s responsiveness, innovative capacity, and resilience in crises, thereby creating an important success factor for businesses. For the successful implementation of an agile transformation, it is particularly important to proceed in a structured manner and accompany the transformation with professional expertise.

With the INSERT Framework, a novel maturity and procedural model has been developed, which guides you step by step towards higher corporate agility. This framework prevents typical mistakes and risks of the agile transformation and optimizes success factors by utilizing best practices.

• Agile working methods as a success factor in modern corporate strategies
• The four maturity levels of corporate agility
• The phased model of the INSERT Framework: Initiation, Preparation, Execution

Table of Contents

1 Agile Ways of Working as a Success Factor of Modern Business Strategies

2 The Evolution to an Agile Organization

3 An Overview of the Agile Transformation

4 Phase 1: Preparation of the Transformation

5 Phase 2: Implementation of the Transformation

6 Closing Remark

About the Author

Lars Kahra has been working as an Agile Coach and IT Project Manager in large corporations and the consulting industry for more than seven years. Throughout his career, he has already accompanied several agile transformations in leading roles. In addition, he works part-time as a paid lecturer in the areas of project management, innovation management, and agile working methods.