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AGILE LEADERSHIP
Bosch Power Tools is a major division of the big German technology company, with about 20,000 employees in over sixty countries and €4.6 billion in 2018 revenue. Henk Becker, who became CEO in 2019, launched its agile transformation in 2016. He established a six-person team reporting to him that would guide and support the division’s six business units, sales organizations, and headquarters during the process.
Three years later, a visitor could see signs of thoroughgoing transformation in the division’s everyday operations. The business unit for professional power tools in industrial markets, for instance, established a three-level Kanban process. Stand-up meetings at the product level fed stand-up meetings at the business ...
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