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KEY LEARNINGS

Implement solutions

successfully

• Determine the relevant stakeholders in the company at an early stage and involve them in your design challenge.
• Develop an implementation strategy with specific measures on the basis of a stakeholder map, before the implementation is initiated.
• Establish agile and lean organizational structures that accelerate the go-to-market.
• Lend the implementation projects additional drive through external cooperation projects with partners, start-ups, and customers.
• Follow a step-by-step approach for the transformation into an agile organization. First, establish small and agile teams; then, scale the
procedure with a clear strategy and guidance for the employees.
• Accept that not all projects, industries, and tasks are suitable for being realized in an agile organizational form.
• Always define a clear vision in agile organizations. Otherwise, tribes have a hard time specifying their tasks. Squads need the overrid-
ing vision to align their mission to it.
• Establish an awareness for the fact that the design teams have different planning cycles.
• Promote a transversal collaboration, such as through guilds.

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