Talking Agility

Enterprise agility is all about change—both making it and responding to it. But change, for many, brings fear and uncertainty. How can financial services organizations minimize fear and maximize trust on their agile journeys? Ellie is joined by Edwin Van der Ouderaa, Senior Managing Director of Digital and Analytics for Accenture Financial Services, and Andy Young, Managing Director and Financial Services Talent & Organisation Lead at Accenture, to explore this question.   

Reskilling the workforce at the speed of modern business is a massive challenge for financial services. Yet it’s one that must be overcome if an organization is to thrive in the New Digital Age—and truly embrace enterprise agility. Elitsa is joined by Bridie Fanning, Accenture's FS Talent & Organization Lead for North America, to discuss how financial services firms can unlock lifelong learning in the workforce.

 What’s the most important role in an Agile project? There’s a strong argument that it’s the product owner. But the same traits that make product owners so important also make them hard to find. Elitsa is joined by John Macleod, Front End Development Lead for Accenture Interactive, to discuss the power of the product owner role in Enterprise Agility and how to find and keep these Agile ‘unicorns’. 

In this episode, Elitsa Nacheva interviews Accenture's Eva Sage-Gavin about the role of leadership and culture in fostering enterprise agility. Eva shares insights on common challenges for leaders and goes over several client examples. 

Agile transformation at scale can seem like a chicken-and-egg problem: if a large organization was already agile, it could transform itself much more quickly. Elitsa is joined by Subhash Chandra Jose of ING to discuss how the global giant was able to overcome this quandary. 

An agile enterprise needs an agile workforce. And while organizations recognize the need to reskill and adapt to new technologies, very few are acting. What will the future of work look like? What role does leadership have in shaping an agile culture at work? And what kinds of skills and competencies should leaders be looking for as they build their future workforce?

 Is it easier to achieve Enterprise Agility if you start with a “clean slate”? What can challenger banks teach industry incumbents? Julian Sawyer, Chief Operating Officer of Starling Bank, joins Elitsa Nacheva to explore these questions and more. 

Without agile individuals, Enterprise Agility becomes impossible. On this episode, Elitsa is joined by Nici Butchart of Gazelle Partners, which helps business leaders foster employee wellbeing. They discuss how to maintain an agile state of mind in times of stress and change.