The power of an agile mindset

Working in an agile way is much more than just a set of methodologies for IT product development. It’s a mindset – one that organizations need to develop to meet increasingly complex market challenges.

Helping our clients to achieve this mindset shift means going beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. For BearingPoint, there is no such thing as a single blueprint that will work to transform every business in the same way. Instead, we deliver bespoke consulting and coaching not only to organizations and teams, but to individual executives and employees – scaling agility out from single and at-large, literally. This helps you to understand what it really means to strategize and operate in an agile way and cascade this understanding across your network of stakeholders and business operations.

BearingPoint’s agile support grounded in our own experience

BearingPoint undertook its own agile transformation long before we began offering consulting and coaching servies.

Our journey towards forming our Agile Advisory began in 2007, following an iterative, evolutionary approach. We experimented with structural, processual, methodological, and technical components, while learning what works and what doesn’t. In repeating inspect-and-adapt cycles we built our operating model incrementally, to create what is now the fully customized integration of everything that proved to generate value.

BearingPoint understands what’s required for organizations to achieve greater business agility, because we’ve been through the process ourselves, and continue to evolve it. Our own journey to agility is one valuable asset we have. It fuels our passion for this ethos, and at the same time lays the foundation for a crucial value proposition to our clients. 

The ROI of an agile transformation

Business agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age, and it’s a catalyst for sound business development. An agile organization can adapt quickly to market changes - internally and externally. It responds rapidly and flexibly to customer needs and it adapts and leads change in a productive and cost-effective way without compromising on quality.

Agile is a key tool in the pursuit of business excellence. And as our research has shown, the more agile the organization, the more resilient it is in times of crisis¹. In the current global economic outlook, agile is demonstrating its value more than ever.

¹ Source: BearingPoint Agile Pulse 2022, page 20

Agile organizations score markedly higher in these critical metrics²:

  • Time to market – up to 75% faster in getting products and services released
  • Productivity – up to 50% increase in overall productivity
  • Quality – up to 75% improvement in product and service quality
  • Engagement – up to 50% happier, more engaged employees

    ² Source: Scaled Agile

An iterative and agile approach to transformation for success

The change to an agile way of working for most firms represents a considerable journey. BearingPoint believes that it should be undertaken in an iterative and incremental approach, building expertise and integration step by step.

Sustainable outcomes are reached within an agile transformation in an agile way

The long-term goal for all of our agile consultants and coaches is to deliver support in a way that your organization will find sustainable. BearingPoint are more than simply transformers. We equip you with the understanding and tools so that you can transform your business on your own. We work on an eye-to-eye level, co-creating individual solutions to individual challenges with you.

From over 15 years of experience in agile transformation, we recognize that agility cannot be achieved in a single leap. It needs to be an iterative and adaptive process, with continuous reflection loops. And perhaps most important in our agile ethos is the principle that transformation has to be done with the buy-in of your people. We help you to put your people and their concerns at the center of your transformation. We help you turn affected employees into participants, and be transparent with them about your long-term agile objectives.

Agile Check© – our assessment of your agile readiness

To guide your agile transformation journey as a true ‘bearing point’, our Agile Check© benchmarks the agile maturity of your organization, compared to other companies in the same industry. Based on this measurement, we can precisely identify the challenges you currently face on the road to agile excellence. Building on a transparent status quo helps us to derive your individual measures designed to accurately resolve these challenges. In this way we co-develop an approach with you for your agile transformation that reflects your goals and boosts your journey.

We know that agile is not the solution for every business challenge. It’s vital to look together with you to ascertain the degree of agility that you need, and we work with you closely to identify your optimal level of agility.

Beyond Agile Check© - our other industry-leading IPs

Our consulting and coaching is powered by intellectual property, offering a wide range of IPs that assist your agile transformation. Along with AgileCheck©, we also offer the use of our BearingPoint Agile Toolbox (BEAT©), which contains knowledge and accelerators to use and customize individually for your transformation.

The Agile Pulse – surveying agile progress around the world

Each year, BearingPoint publishes ’The Agile Pulse,’ a popular and influential survey on business agility across major sectors and industries in both Europe and the USA.

In 2022 we surveyed more than 1,100 teams and individuals to assess the prevalence and use of agile methodologies. Our study confirmed that agile transformation is increasingly high on the agenda of an increasing number of companies, and also the majority of public sector organizations.

BearingPoint - a one-stop shop for your agile transformation

There are various elements that can be individually important for an agile transformation in your organization. BearingPoint offer services within six distinct areas of our Agile Advisory Portfolio, each with its own emphasis, that boost you on your agile journey:

Mastering Business Agility
The power of an agile mindset

Mastering Business Agility

The focus here is on transformation and organizational development, along with cultural and mindset change. Systemic coaching ensures that all support is geared towards impacting the entire organization, and not just the individual team.

Check Agile Readiness
The power of an agile mindset

Check Agile Readiness

Our analysis and benchmark of your current agile status with our BearingPoint Agile Check©, achieved by shadowing and interviewing. It leads to identification of relevant measures and implementation of a roadmap for improvements.

Conduct Agile Trainings
The power of an agile mindset

Conduct Agile Trainings

Our training courses, delivered by our own Agile Academy, begin with Agile Essentials, Scrum Basics and Kanban Basics, and extend into more advanced areas including OKR, Atlassian suite, SAFe and Design Thinking etc. We offer role-specific courses for product owners, Scrum Masters, business analysts and leadership.

Coach and Develop Teams
The power of an agile mindset

Coach and Develop Teams

BearingPoint offers individual 1-on-1 coaching as well as team coaching and development, along with coaching for interim Scrum Masters and interim Product Owners. We have also developed Learning Journeys for different roles within an agile organization to build up maturity of internal employees and accompany them on the knowledge journey.

Boost Leadership Effectiveness
The power of an agile mindset

Boost Leadership Effectiveness

Here the emphasis is on executive and leadership coaching and taking individuals from manager to leader. We focus particularly on leadership in agile organizations, helping you understand the principles of Servant and Lateral leadership to foster innovation, collaboration, and value creation. Finally, we assist your people-management teams, because career levels and steps in an agile organization can change, and adjustments in your people structure may be needed.

Strategic Agility
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Strategic Agility

We deliver OKR rollouts on a strategic level, and we also help you to transform your portfolio management to deliver greater agility. Our strategic service also includes our proprietary pricing and contract model, the Agile Fix Price model, which allows you to work in an agile way with your contractors, but retaining a fixed pricing structure.

An agile transformation is mastered best with a partner like BearingPoint

BearingPoint is one of the world’s top three consultancy firms specializing in agile transformation, based on consultancy.org’s unique global database of more than 10 million data points per year of clients and consultants.

Why choose BearingPoint? Well, the clue is in our name. ‘BearingPoint’ originally stems from sail-boat navigation and means a course direction. Our name reflects the fact that we’re a business partner that helps our clients to find their strategic direction and achieve results and outcomes for long-term success.

What makes the difference is not only our diverse, certified agile expertise and holistic service portfolio but also our lengthy and extensive experience.

Our experts deliver more than 100 agile projects every year. We’re passionate about agile transformation, organizational development and change management, and take a people-centered approach. Our consulting is heavily focused on individuals, but with a systemic outlook – one that takes into account the individual’s impact right across their organization, with a thorough understanding of the relationships and interconnections within a system that enables better decision-making and improvements.

Over 300 certified agile experts


Today, BearingPoint has over 300 certified agile experts worldwide whose competencies cover the wide range of agile frameworks and methodologies. These include Scrum, Kanban, Scaling Frameworks like SAFe, Scrum-at-Scale, or LeSS and Objectives & Key Results (OKR), as well as Atlassian platforms. We consult and train in a holistic way, but also coach you where needed, as most of our experts are systemic coaches.

In this way, our certified consultants not only bring Agile skills along with extensive industry and technical expertise and many years of experience in agile transformation, but also the necessary (systemic) coaching and change experience. We nurture a holistic view that delivers sustainable value and greater innovation. We focus not only on high-performing teams but also on the purpose, vision, ambition level, strategy execution, portfolio, future-proof organizational models, leadership, and of course, change and culture.

We are more than consultants 

We coach, consult, train and offer a wide range of IPs and partners in our ecosystem. This is why you’ll master the challenges of an agile transformation best with BearingPoint, as factors related to the cultural change of the organization and the qualification of employees are perceived as a challenge following the BearingPoint Agile Pulse Study 2022³.

³ Source: BearingPoint Agile Pulse 2022

I am glad that agility at KfW is still a journey made by many enthusiastic change-driven teams, founded in business and IT. A change, which now also includes processes, structures and leadership. And still we are going our own way - experience-based, incremental, participative.

Stefan Dreyer, Product Owner of the Transition Team Scrum @ KfW

 

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