Remove Dependencies, Don’t Manage Them
Explains why dependencies are a sign of poor system design and outlines steps to eliminate them by aligning teams, clarifying ownership, and …
Driving transformation efforts to enable agility and resilience.

Organisational Change refers to the systematic approach to transforming an organisation’s structure, culture, and processes to enhance agility and resilience. This concept is crucial as it enables teams to adapt to evolving market demands and technological advancements, ensuring that value delivery is both predictable and sustainable. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and responsiveness, organisations can better align their strategies with customer needs and operational realities.
Effective organisational change is not merely about implementing new tools or methodologies; it involves a deep understanding of the existing organisational dynamics and the willingness to challenge the status quo. This long-term, systemic approach empowers teams to embrace uncertainty and complexity, facilitating innovation and collaboration across all levels. It encourages a mindset that values learning from failures and successes alike, ultimately leading to improved performance and enhanced customer satisfaction.
Unlike concepts such as Agile Transformation or Change Management, which may focus on specific frameworks or processes, Organisational Change encompasses a broader spectrum of influences, including cultural shifts and leadership engagement. It is about creating an environment where agility is ingrained in the organisational fabric, allowing for seamless adaptation to change and fostering a proactive rather than reactive stance towards challenges. This holistic perspective is essential for organisations aiming to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape, ensuring they remain competitive and relevant in their respective markets.
Explains why dependencies are a sign of poor system design and outlines steps to eliminate them by aligning teams, clarifying ownership, and …
Open Space Agile is an approach to organisational agility that applies the principles of Open Space Technology, a self-organising, agenda-free format …
Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in …
Most agile transformations fail by neglecting agency, empowering people and systems to adapt, making true agility possible through autonomy, evidence, …
NKD Agility helped the Ghana Police Service drive organisational change using Scrum, enabling continuous improvement, transparency, and local …
Lead successful Agile Transformations. Shift mindsets, evolve processes, and enable true organisational agility.
Comprehensive guide to using OKRs for shared focus, measurable outcomes, and strategic learning, including roles, events, best practices, and common …
Scaling agile beyond teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation and innovation.
Learn how to successfully implement OKRs by aligning clear strategy, fostering transparency, empowering teams, focusing on outcomes, and establishing …
Company as a Product (CaaP) is an organisational strategy that treats the entire company as a continuously evolving product, rather than a static …
Most companies struggle with agility due to rigid structures, outdated processes, and cultural barriers, not technical issues. True agility requires …
Scrum can drive organisational change, not just product features, by using backlogs, teams, and feedback to enable real, evidence-based agility across …
Explains why frameworks alone can't shift team culture, emphasizing clear vision, leadership commitment, and empowering teams to drive meaningful …
Cell Structure Design is an organisational design model developed by Niels Pfläging, rooted in the principles of the Beta Codex. It replaces …
A specialized product operating model for organizations adopting agile methodologies. It integrates agile practices with product management principles …
Explores the difference between true agility and superficial agile practices, highlighting the impact of Taylorism and offering steps to foster …
Copying scaled agile frameworks fails because each business needs a tailored, evidence-based approach to agility that fits its unique culture, …
Change succeeds when everyone understands and engages with it. Broad Scrum training empowers all roles to identify blockers and drive real, lasting …
Helping organisations shift mindsets and processes without falling into transformation theatre.
Explains how to gather key metrics for evidence-based management in software organisations, focusing on value delivery, time to market, and ability to …
Explores how an effective Scrum Master drives team success by fostering team fit, addressing organisational barriers, and building relationships to …
Explores how adopting a shared framework and structured communication can turn team chaos into collaboration, boosting trust, engagement, and …
Agentic Agility is the ability for humans and AI to take intentional, adaptive action within socio-technical environments, enabling continuous …
Mandating Agile or Scrum fails without cultural change; true agility requires trust, transparency, and a supportive environment, not just tools or …
Apply Systems Thinking to understand complexity, improve decision-making, and drive sustainable organisational change.
Embrace Beta Codex for decentralised, adaptive, and human-centric organisational design. Enable true agility beyond rigid hierarchies.
Scaling agility beyond teams to drive organisational responsiveness and adaptability.
Ditch the Big Bang rewrite. Discover why sustainable, in-place change drives true engineering excellence and lasting transformation in your teams.
Explores how DevOps enhances enterprise collaboration, continuous improvement, automation, and customer focus to drive cultural and operational …
Explores how visionary Product Owners at Microsoft drove Agile transformation, shortened feedback cycles, and reshaped product development culture and …
Drive change with Agile Leadership. Foster adaptability, empower teams, and create a culture of continuous improvement.
Explores how effective leadership drives cultural change, supports agile practices, and fosters collaboration through vision, automation, learning, …
Compares Satya Nadella’s and Steve Jobs’s leadership, highlighting Nadella’s agile approach that fosters innovation, decentralised decision-making, …
Explores how rigid, hierarchical structures hinder organisational agility and offers practical strategies for shifting to decentralised, empowered, …
Ensuring every team member understands and connects their daily work to the product vision and strategic goals is key to true Agile alignment, …
Explores why Agile fails without addressing systemic issues, highlighting the need for organisational change, meaningful metrics, and the courage to …
Change in organisations is a continuous, evolutionary process driven by experimentation and adaptation, not a one-time transformation or fixed end …
Immersive learning helps aspiring agile leaders overcome cultural barriers by providing time, practical experiments, and peer feedback to drive real …
Explores the Ghana Police Service’s shift to a modern, professional model using servant leadership, agile frameworks, and strategic change to restore …
Active senior leadership engagement is essential for successful Agile transformation, enabling systemic change, faster adaptation, and …
Organisational Physics is a conceptual model that uses systems thinking to analyse and influence the dynamics within organisations, focusing on the …
Explores what traditional organisations must change, beyond adopting Agile tools, to achieve true agility, cultural transformation, and sustained …
Evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions to help organisations achieve business outcomes, adapt to market changes, and maximise value …
Explores why traditional hierarchical organisations struggle in fast-changing markets and argues for agile, decentralised structures to boost …
Learn how involving, empowering, and communicating with your team drives successful organisational change by fostering shared goals, trust, and a …
Explores how clear vision, goals, and evidence-based management empower teams, improve alignment, and foster autonomy, engagement, and effective …
Explains why lasting organisational change comes from adjusting systems, rules, processes, and structures, rather than trying to directly transform …
Explores why continuous organisational evolution, not fixed transformations, is essential for adapting to rapid change, fostering agility, and …
Explores how immersive, hands-on learning in Agile training fosters real-world application, continuous improvement, and lasting organisational change …
Is your engineering culture built to thrive on change? Discover how to create resilient, adaptive teams that stay ahead in a fast-moving tech world.
Using hypothesis-driven approaches to test ideas and validate assumptions in agile workflows.
Explore and compare Agile frameworks. Understand their principles, applications, and impact on organisational agility and value delivery.
Transform legacy engineering with a proven, step-by-step approach, learn how to automate, adapt, and build a resilient, modern DevOps culture.
Adapting based on evidence, not assumptions, through inspection and transparency.
Explores how organisations can scale teams to boost innovation while avoiding bureaucracy, focusing on empowerment, streamlined processes, and agile …
Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …
Learn how Professional Scrum training empowers teams to identify organisational blockers, create actionable change backlogs, and drive real …
Social technologies are systems of thought that shape collaboration, decision-making, and adaptability. Rooted in self-organisation and continuous …
Align strategy with execution through Portfolio Management. Prioritise investments, optimise value streams, and drive organisational agility.
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.

Brandes Investment Partners L.P.

Slaughter and May

Lockheed Martin

Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)
NIT A/S

Emerson Process Management

Lean SA

DFDS

Teleplan

Milliman

Workday

Slicedbread

Ericson

Big Data for Humans

ALS Life Sciences

Sage

Xceptor - Process and Data Automation

SuperControl

Royal Air Force

Washington Department of Enterprise Services

Department of Work and Pensions (UK)

New Hampshire Supreme Court

Ghana Police Service

Washington Department of Transport

Milliman

Genus Breeding Ltd

DFDS

Xceptor - Process and Data Automation

Akaditi

Boeing