Episode Details

In today’s uncertain business landscape, companies must be more agile than ever, embracing new ways of working and nurturing a changemaker mindset across teams. We discuss this with:

Anne Cherouny, organizational change management leader, Boeing, Arlington, Virginia, USA: Cherouny discusses the benefits of organizational agility, how a lack of coordination and structured change management can hinder organizations’ agility, and how project leaders can embrace new ways of working on their teams.

Amol Pradhan, chief transformation officer, services integration hub cloud advisory and enterprise agility, IBM, Singapore: Pradhan discusses challenges organizations face when building organizational agility into company culture, why it’s important for leaders to communicate and prepare teams for organizational change, and how IBM built agility into its HR teams’ operations.

Key themes

[02:13] The ROI of organizational agility

[04:21] How lack of coordination and collaboration hinders organizational agility

[05:56] Boosting agility on teams through a shared vision and new ways of working

[12:50] How to communicate with and prepare teams for organizational change 

[14:20] How IBM built agility into its HR operations