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Agile in Medicine

Is it possible to create an Agile clinic? How can cross-functional physicians teams work using Scrum? How does Agile in medicine effect a patient's health?

This is a story of how Agile literally changed lives.

In early 2017, the owner of a major medical network came to me and said that he wanted all his clinics to go through an Agile transformation. At first, I could not believe my ears. I know how to bring Agile to sales, but I had never worked with doctors. However, he managed to convince me, and this turned out to be the most difficult, yet also the most interesting and rewarding, project in my life. Now I know for sure that Agile is the best thing to happen to medicine! Come and hear this fascinating story.

This is the story about how we created Scrum teams including everyone from the security guard to the head physician. About the immense resistance with which the Agile coaches had to face and which almost lead to the death of the project. And how, eventually, Agile helped the clinic to increase income and the patients started to line up to receive treatment in that clinic.

This is a story for everyone. Agile has long transcended the IT borders. Not everyone agrees with it, but this is our reality. Agile transforms people's minds, and without that transformation, businesses will just fail in our quickly changing world. If Agile turned the worst chain clinic into the best among 40 others in just 5 months, and patients drove across the whole city to be treated exactly there, then imagine how your business will improve if your Agile transcends the IT sphere? And, mainly, how much happier will you, your team and your clients or patients become?

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Earn More, Sell More, with Agile in Sales

Sales is the lifeblood of every organisation. So why is it treated as an afterthought? If Agile can help IT teams, to be more effective, customer-centric, and enjoyable places to work, can it help sales teams to be the same?

The answer is Yes.

This presentation will show that when IT, Sales and Marketing departments collaborate, adopt and embrace agile, the whole company becomes much more profitable. In some cases, increasing company profits 3 to 4 times. Marina will share her insights, experiences and practical guidance for organisational leaders, sales teams and business teams.

Throughout this talk, Marina will tell the story of a major holding company in Russia. This company primarily produced construction tiles and, at the time, was only meeting 43% of its sales targets. Management knew something had to change, and so made the bold decision to introduce agile simultaneously in IT, and Sales and Marketing. This was such a success that all the top managers started using Scrum to run the business successfully.

Now, just two years later, the holding has transformed the tile production and sales market, introduced dozens of innovations and have been able to triple their profit, hitting 127% of the annual target and even acquired one of its competitors.

In the end, you’ll learn that Agile is much more than just a way to increase profits. It’s a whole new way of thinking. Now when you visit this holding, you will see a corporate culture based on trust and transparency. Where company values truly matter, not only to the top management but also to the regular staff.