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Enterprise Agility & Agile Transformation
Organizations struggling with siloed decision-making need an enterprise-wide approach to agility that goes beyond traditional departmental boundaries. Catalant enables organizations to:
APPROACH
Drive Agile Transformation with Mindset, Structure, and Speed at Scale
01
Align on vision and outcomes
Engage executive leadership to define what agility means for the business, building alignment on core outcomes like speed, value delivery, and customer centricity. Connect these principles to measurable business objectives.
02
Diagnose barriers
Conduct a comprehensive enterprise-wide diagnostic of current agility levels across teams, functions, and processes. Identify specific blockers to workflow, collaboration, and value delivery that impact business performance.
03
Design agile operating model
Develop a tailored operating model with clear structures including team-of-teams architecture, value streams, and well-defined roles. Establish decision rights and governance mechanisms aligned to agile principles.
04
Enable agile ways of working
Deploy a cross-functional playbook of agile rituals, objectives and key results (OKRs), and team ceremonies spanning both business and technical functions. Implement quarterly planning cadences that prioritize value delivery.
05
Scale with delivery rhythms
Launch integrated agile value streams with consistent governance for prioritization and performance metrics. Embed continuous improvement mechanisms to ensure sustained agility at scale across the enterprise.
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Enterprise Agility & Agile Transformation Use Cases
Problem
A $50B global consumer packaged goods company struggled with siloed decision-making, delayed product launches, and limited cross-functional collaboration. Delivery teams faced frequent rework and context switching due to misaligned leadership. Despite investing in agile pilots within IT, the broader organization lacked the mindset, operating model, and structures to scale agility enterprise-wide.
Action
Consultants assessed agility across 20+ business functions, aligned leadership on a shared vision tied to commercial outcomes, and designed a new Agile Operating Model with cross-functional value streams. Implementation included an enterprise-wide Agile Ways of Working Playbook with 200+ trained champions and leadership coaching across marketing, supply chain, R&D, and digital functions.
Results
The transformation delivered measurable business impact:
- 40% reduction in time-to-market for priority product launches
- 25% increase in throughput and value delivery across top agile squads
- Unified enterprise-wide planning and quarterly OKR cadence adopted across five global regions
Financial Services Firm Breaks Operational Silos
A large financial services company faced growing market pressure from fintech disruptors and struggled with institutional resistance to change. Consultants implemented an enterprise agility framework that prioritized customer-centric value streams over traditional departmental structures. The new operating model eliminated cross-functional barriers, leading to a 35% reduction in product development cycles and significantly improved customer satisfaction scores within six months.
Tech Company Scales Agile Beyond Development
When a mid-market technology provider needed to extend agile principles beyond their engineering team, consultants designed a comprehensive transformation program connecting product, marketing, customer success, and finance functions. Through targeted capability building and cross-functional alignment, the organization achieved 30% higher customer retention rates and accelerated feature delivery, while maintaining compliance and governance standards.
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Enterprise Agility & Agile Transformation Consultants
Kevin Darbelnet
Catalant consultant
Ex-Nestlé R&D and PMO leader driving enterprise agility transformation
Celina Holt
Catalant consultant
Ex-Deloitte and Schneider Electric certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
Kevin Darbelnet
Ex-Nestlé R&D and PMO leader driving enterprise agility transformation
Brings 20+ years of innovation and engineering leadership to help manufacturers prioritize initiatives and accelerate transformation. Combines portfolio management with agility frameworks to drive execution beyond traditional Agile methodologies.
Celina Holt
Ex-Deloitte and Schneider Electric certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
18+ years leading large-scale agile transformations and cloud migrations from lean MVPs to $50M+ initiatives. Delivers measurable outcomes through cross-functional alignment, risk mitigation, and scalable governance.
Tom Cooper
Ex-Fortune 500 and PwC agile transformation leader
Implementing scalable agile practices for 20+ years across startups to Fortune 500 companies. Transforms enterprise chaos into predictable delivery by accelerating time-to-market, improving team productivity, and aligning technical execution with strategy.
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