Sparkassen agile Transformation
Sparkassen agile Transformation

Saving banks – transformation, leadership and culture

Effectively addressing today’s challenges, such as demographic change and digitalization, with an agile transformation.

Actively shaping the savings banks’ future

The sphere of activity of savings banks is becoming ever more dynamic and increasingly complex.

The big questions of the future speak for themselves:

  • How can we be attractive as an employer to win over young talent in the future?

  • How can we genuinely inspire customers and drive digitalization forward to stand up to potential new competitors?

  • How can we retain young customers?

This list can be continued indefinitely. Therefore, it is important to keep developing the core business in line with a clear structure and priorities, while at the same time establishing new approaches and ways of thinking to ensure that changes are identified in good time and the resulting future opportunities can be exploited.

This requires a modern and future-oriented culture and collaboration in which employees and executives can proactively manage change, participate independently within a given framework and develop overarching solutions (regardless of their assigned organizational unit).

Agile transformation is the key.

 

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The signs of the times point to a new beginning. We are shaping organisations for the new era. People-centred. Agile. Courageous.

There is no blueprint for the effective further development of corporate culture that can simply be transferred to every savings bank

Martin Fürst, Senior Manager

The transformation process begins at board level

Top management sets the standard, defines goals, communicates visions and is an ambassador for change. Changes are noticeable at all levels, from the board to individual employees. There are drivers of change across roles, e.g. “cultural guides ” who promote the process.

Practical projects in future workshops use innovative methods to build transformative momentum. This transformation is marked by great relevance to everyday life and visible changes.
 

Our role in the transformation

We shape and support the transformation to a modern savings bank using a customer-centric and agile approach. Our focus is on empowering people and the organization. We team up with savings banks to develop sustainable strategies, e.g. through Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). As a driving force and guide, we gradually hand over control to our clients in order to promote sustainable processes.