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Design Principles of an Agile Organization

Today, value is delivered through innovation and agility. As a result, organizations are under pressure to rethink how
things get done and design an organization that generates ideas and value—one that continually innovates, changes
and operates in an agile manner.

Leading digital organizations are adopting an agile operating model that enables them to respond faster to the
dynamic market. Explore the design principles of an agile organization.

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Clusters of smaller, focused Culture and management
autonomous business units system that encourages
that partner and collaborate a curious mind-set,
with other business units, collaboration and
making decisions faster innovation

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Enabled by smart, fast, Delivered by agile,
integrated and automated simplified and frugal
technology platforms and operational processes
solutions

Along with our methodology, CGI has both proximity and scale to help your enterprise adopt an agile
operating model.

Use our worksheet to assess your organization. Contact us at rethink@cgi.com to start the conversation.
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Design Principles of an Agile Organization

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Asses your organization against the design
criteria of an agile organization.

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1 Employees freed up to work on value-add

activities

2 Decisions made based on insights generated

from customer and operational data

Culture and management system that encourages

3 a curious mind-set, collaboration and
innovation

Clusters of smaller, focused autonomous

4 business units that partner and collaborate with
other business units, making decisions faster

Integration into an ecosystem of partners that

5 collaborate, share, innovate and deliver increased
value to a networked and shared economy

Co-designed market opportunities, products

6 and services informed by customer needs and
behaviors

7 Delivery through agile, simplified and frugal

operational processes

8 Enabled by smart, fast, integrated and

automated technology platforms and solutions

Contact us at rethink@cgi.com to start the conversation.