Why Business Agility?
Staying capable of action in dynamic markets takes more than isolated adjustments. At KEGON, Business Agility means holistically enabling your organization at every level. Agility comes from practice — and a genuinely agile mindset.
Business Agility Flow
For us, Business Agility means one thing above all: working outcome-oriented and feedback-driven, instead of following rigid plans. The KEGON Business Agility Flow applies this principle to the entire company — from strategy through to operational execution — as a radically incremental process of strategy formulation and implementation. It minimizes time lost in operationalizing strategy and enables organizations to formulate, adapt and execute their own strategy. Insights and ideas from operational execution regularly feed back into strategy formulation, creating permanent adjustment in small steering increments.
The KEGON Business Agility Flow — step by step
Joint strategy formulation grounded in shared vision, values and convictions, with cross-disciplinary employee involvement.
Trends are spotted and assessed through internal and external company evaluations.
A jointly aligned mission is formulated for the company.
Strategic objectives are formulated for operational execution, based on the previous steps.
The strategic objectives set the frame for decentralized execution of suitable strategic initiatives.
Operational execution happens continuously, in short iterations.
Regular delivery to the market brings us closer to our strategic objective. These market insights form the basis for adjusting the strategy where needed.
But what actually makes an organization agile?
Agile ways of working have been widespread for many years, especially in software development. Proven effects of this approach include improved quality and efficiency, along with more satisfied employees. Scrum and Kanban have become a modern methodological standard for team-level work, and the resulting agile roles and practices are now an indispensable part of a modern operating model. Increasingly, though, development organizations are taking a further step — aligning their organizational structure itself with agile principles.
In this model, agile teams form the structure of the organization, and Scrum roles are introduced as leadership roles, while traditional leadership roles such as team leads and department heads lose significance. A change this fundamental naturally requires well-founded support. It's not just about mastering agile methods perfectly — it demands substantial experience restructuring organizations: coaching the people involved and the new role models that come with it, as well as structuring and guiding the organizational change through job descriptions, postings, involvement of employee representative bodies, or the (re)definition of compensation and career models.
The bridge to the intelligent enterprise
Only an agilized organization is able to steer AI-powered value streams in a way that generates real competitive advantage. By making your processes fluid and transparent through Business Agility, we create the necessary connection points for artificial intelligence.
The result of this symbiosis is a new form of continuously adapting value creation. We enable you to successfully apply agile methods in your work environment — for a future as an intelligent enterprise.
Business Agility as the engine of 6 impact areas
Better Work – Better Results
The 6 Strategic Impact Areas
1. Outcome-oriented strategy development
Adaptive planning instead of rigid concepts, for maximum market proximity.
2. Lean Portfolio Management
Transparent value flows and targeted steering of strategic investments.
3. Fact-based transformation
Measurable change through data rather than opinions, supported by methods such as Value Stream Mapping.
4. Effective product development
Shorter time-to-market through decentralized decisions and scaled agility.
5. Future-oriented leadership
Enabling teams through a genuinely lived agile mindset.
6. Efficient business operations
Smooth, value-stream-oriented operations across the Business Agility Flow.
Our Approach
We support you with great sensitivity for the people involved, choosing methods with good judgment.
Our portfolio covers the full spectrum of modern organizational leadership, to help establish the Business Agility Flow in your company:
Scaled Agile Framework
LPMLean Portfolio Management
Agile FrameworksScrum.org® Trainings, Kanban
AI-Native TrainingAI competency for agile teams
Agile in HardwareAgility in hardware development
Agile in AutomotiveAgility in the automotive industry
Agile in Public AdministrationAgility in the public sector
Our services around Business Agility
Three ways we support you on your agility journey:
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Matthias Racke
Tel +49 611 20 50 80
matthias.racke(at)kegon.de
