A Meet the Boss roundtable brought to you by DocuSign

Better productivity, collaboration and engagement are just some of the benefits of the agile way of working. Digital transformation is key to business agility, and almost everyone working within an I.T. or product development department will use or have heard of agile working practices, but those practices haven’t consistently rolled out to other departments.

Organisations that adopt agile ways of working are reported to achieve 60% higher revenue and profit growth, as reported in the Harvard Business Review. So, is the agile way of working something all areas of an organisation should embrace?

Few companies have achieved agility across their organisation. The KPMG Global Agile Survey in 2019 gathered 128 responses from business leaders in 17 different countries, with 55% of respondents from Europe. 23% of respondents in all countries expected only selected functions to be working agile in three years, and 32% expected agile working to happen at an enterprise level.

Agile practices have enabled organisations to be more resilient to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic too. Research showed that 93% of organisations thought their agile business units had performed “significantly better” than their non-agile business units. This kind of result indicates a strong case for embedding agile working throughout an organisation. Next-generation technology is vital to empowering employees towards agile working, and many digital tools can help roll out agility to other departments like legal and HR.

Join DocuSign and a select group of your peers as you share your own challenges, experiences and discuss best practices in this Meet the Boss Roundtable.