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Typical challenges we solve
Disconnected from customer needs
Teams focused on delivering outputs that don't address customer needs.
Slow innovation cycles
Bureaucracy and inefficiencies means long lead times and slow validation of ideas.
Mis-aligned goals
Pressure to deliver short-term results inhibits experimentation and learning.
Unclear vision
Disconnect between teams and leadership regarding vision and strategy.
“We had a challenging context for a strategic program, with a tight deadline and a lot of different parts of the organization impacted. Agilar was a key partner, guiding us in defining a collaborative operating model that promoted alignment, focus, and adaptability. Those capabilities were critical in our ability to steer through the challenges and deliver ahead of schedule.”
Bernard Van Causenbroeck
Program Director Mail & Retail bPost
Why companies choose to work with us
Strategy-first mindset
Innovation is a capability that needs to be focused on supporting the strategy of the organization.
Customer-centric approach
Regardless of whether the need is for evolutionary or disruptive innovation, the process starts with understanding the target markets and their needs.
Innovation upskilling
We understand the skills needed for different roles in the innovation process, and how to guide key people in acquiring these skills.
Integrated approach
Incubators are great, but innovation processes need to connect with the rest of the organization, and we guide that holistic approach.
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Case Studies
Innovation on a Deadline: Launching Plant-Based Products at Pace
What does it take to launch four new plant-based products in record time? This case study reveals how one company broke away from legacy thinking to innovate from within—overcoming tight trade windows, internal resistance, and past failures by embracing Agile, cross-functional collaboration, and faster, smarter testing.
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Typical roles interested in this topic
Product Managers, who need to find new growth opportunities for their products.
Team Leads, who want to improve their teams’ ability to recognize and adapt to market changes.
Organizational leaders, who need an overview of innovation initiatives and how they connect to goals.
Change Leads, who want to embed customer centricity and learning into value delivery processes.
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Our own change management tool, it supports the assessment of teams/tribes, tracking of key innovation KPIs or goals, and visualizing the overall status of the innovation change initiative. This transparency supports the growth of innovation practices and the improvement of teams’ ability to learn & adapt.
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Beanstalk
BeanStalk is our skills assessment and improvement app, designed to help individuals improve and organizations manage skills growth effectively. It packages our 20+ years of coaching and training experience into an app that helps people and organizations upskill and grow.
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Why do our clients continue to work with us?
Pragmatism & flexibility
We are framework-agnostic and believe impactful change starts not from processes and structures, but rather from the organization's strategy, culture, and goals. Focusing on those (rather than frameworks) makes change grounded to the reality of teams and value delivery. For innovation initiatives, this pragmatism means changes are customized to the specific context and goals of the organization, growing the needed innovation capabilities to support the business strategy.
Change management expertise
We believe the biggest reason change initiatives fail is not because of lack of leadership support, resistance to change, or lack of budget. We believe change fails mostly because of lack of good change management. Our approach combines the Kotter model with our experience in defining leading and lagging indicators that enable our clients to track the impact the change is having on the business. For innovation initiatives, this means understanding strategy and goals, connecting changes and experiments to those goals, and make the necessary adjustments along the way to ensure successful, sustainable change.
Broad industry experience
We have extensive experience in a broad range of vertical industries, such as Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Finance & Insurance, Telco, Gaming, and Manufacturing. We are also pioneers in taking agility beyond product / software teams and into the domain of business or operational teams.
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