In this exclusive video in partnership with Agile Business Conference, Dorien Burgers (HR Director for Albert Heijn) and Floris de Bruin (Head of Innovation and Tech at Samhoud Consultancy) discuss ‘From Freighter to Speedboat: towards Business Agility and beyond’.
This is an agile transformation story about the IT organization and business interaction points of Albert Heijn (AH), the leading food retailer in the Netherlands. AH IT comprises an ecosystem of internal employees and external partners that makes up 2000 people in total and is the critical driver for technological change for the entire organization.
The organisation went from local agile experiments to Scaled agile at an incredible pace in just one year. They truly pushed the boundaries of what is believed to be possible. When they started this change, it was unimaginable to our environment that we would succeed. They want to show the audience that every organization and person has the hidden ability for change and evolution within them, and that they can achieve the same changes and success that we did.
They share an honest story on what went well in this transformation that made them proud but also their brilliant failures that taught them a lot and the way going forward. Practical tools and movies are shown to give an impression on how AH IT transformed which can help you change your organization.
