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How Agile Ways of Working Support AI Adoption Across Teams
19 May 2026
Anoop Nair
For many organisations, adopting artificial intelligence is no longer a future ambition. It is a present priority. Businesses are exploring new ways t…
AI Is Changing How Software Is Designed
8 May 2026
Hugo Messer
For years, software design followed a familiar pattern. Teams gathered requirements, created structured plans, wrote code, tested it, and released upd…
Why Businesses Need to Think Beyond AI Tools
9 March 2026
Hugo Messer
Artificial intelligence is steadily becoming a core part of how modern businesses operate and make decisions. Organisations across industries are expe…
Why AI Training Is the New Competitive Edge for Modern Organizations
8 December 2025
Hugo Messer
Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond the realm of experimentation and into the fabric of how modern businesses operate. From customer service work…
How Agile Thinking Accelerates AI Adoption
5 December 2025
Hugo Messer
Organisations everywhere are exploring how AI can improve productivity, reduce operational waste, and uncover new opportunities. Yet many initiatives…
From Agile to AI: How Organisations Can Evolve Their Ways of Working
2 December 2025
Hugo Messer
For more than a decade, Agile has been the backbone of modern organisational transformation. It gave teams a shared language for collaboration, a rhyt…
Why Trust Matters in the Workplace (Plus Tips for Building It with Agile Practices)
11 November 2024
Anis Muslimin
In today's fast-paced work environment, trust is a cornerstone of success. When people trust each other, collaboration thrives, communication remains…
Essential Insight: How Agile Meets Design Thinking
15 November 2023
Ugeng wijaya
Foto bersama (Foto: dokumen pribadi) Over 40 participants joined me in talking about how agile meets design thinking. It was excited me. Despite havin…
Beyond Business: How Startups are Shaping the Future
25 September 2023
Ugeng wijaya
In today's rapidly evolving world, we find ourselves grappling with a myriad of challenges that require immediate attention and innovative solutions…
Agile Tips: Create Accountability and Self Organisation
6 July 2023
Hugo Messer
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash One of the ideals in an Agile organisation is self-organisation. We want to empower people to make their own decisi…
Agile Transformation is What the Boss Wants Or?
6 July 2023
Samuel Loh
Samuel Loh an Agile Coach at Ekipa Consultancy shares his best insight on the What's in it for me (WIIFM) when an Agile Transformation is underway. O…
3 Major Mind Shifts During COVID-19 That Drive Innovation
5 July 2023
Rez Harditya
If you rewind to the start of 2020, did you imagine having to talk to people behind masks and face screens, being afraid to be in touch with the world…
Use POWER START For More Purposeful and Effective Meetings
5 July 2023
Matthew Laing
We’ve all attended (or led!) ineffective meetings where the purpose is vague or absent. The meeting owner often jumps straight into the detail, leavi…
How Individuals and Organisations Can Get Benefit From Group Coaching?
28 April 2023
nabila ghaida Zia
Ekipa and Manulife Indonesia had just provided offline group coaching with the theme “Elevate your coaching skills” on Friday, 14 April 2023. The eve…
Agile Habit: Changing Large Groups of People 1 Habit at A Time
6 May 2022
Hugo Messer
Ekipa.co - In my new book ‘start agile’, I’ve gathered my thoughts and experiences about starting an agile transformation. Most people start with the…
Must Haves Before getting started on adopting Agile Ways of Working – Part 1
20 April 2022
Gretel Darby
The boss says we are going Agile…. It's my job to … make us go Agile. Transform like? How do we get started? ….with adopting agile ways of working? Th…
How to make progress with difficult decisions
4 April 2022
Matthew Laing
Making progress on difficult decisions - A view between consent vs consensus Image Credits : FreePik Quote: “Nothing is what happens when everyone has…
Do We Really Need An Agile Coach ?
2 October 2021
Hugo Messer
To be honest, I think there are way too many coaches in the world. For years, while walking around the IT industry in the Netherlands, I saw the marke…
How do you invite people to engage – especially when they are working remotely ?
17 September 2021
Gretel Darby
My dog has his invite method down to a fine art… it starts with the lowering of his head and lowers the whole of his front part of the body down to sh…
Applying an agile mindset and ways of working to improve your Personal Agility
30 July 2021
Gretel Darby
Ekipa Consultancy in Malaysia co-hosted a webinar with Amiruddin Yusoff, Paul Hutton and myself Gretel Darby in April 2021 on the topic of “improving…
Breaking Down Walls to Foster Agility
2 October 2020
Hugo Messer
During 2020, I’ve been engaged in several larger agility transformations in Indonesia. Most companies focus on creating digital innovation. To achieve…
7 Ways to Stay Super Productive When Working Remotely
16 March 2020
Rez Harditya
Are you trying to work remotely, but feel that you and your team are not as productive as you would when working from the same location? We know exact…
The DNA of a true agile organisation
9 March 2020
Hugo Messer
Lately, I see some companies move to true ‘agile enterprises’. I’ve always been a firm believer of empowerment and self management. To become a true a…
Why is it so hard to become Entrepreneurial?
27 January 2020
Hugo Messer
To create innovation, we need entrepreneurship, but why is it so hard to become entrepreneurial? We dissect in this piece. I’ve always been an entrepr…
6 Sure Ways to Write Good Articles
8 January 2020
Rez Harditya
Have you ever had a really good idea you want to write about, but not sure how to start writing? You’re not alone. Short articles are now one of the m…
Innovation in Indonesia: Strategy vs Execution
13 December 2019
Hugo Messer
I’m on a personal quest to find out how I can best help the innovation ecosystem in Indonesia. At heart, I am an entrepreneur. I’m always seeing busin…
Does Agile Work for Non-Software Projects?
5 December 2019
Rez Harditya
One frequently asked question I get about agile is: ‘Can agile work outside of software projects?’ Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, and here’s why…
How to start an innovation program?
4 December 2019
Hugo Messer
Hugo's take on why it is much harder to start an innovation program than starting an agile or digital transformation. The past months, I’ve been talk…
Agile Retrospectives, an Effective Tool for Continuous Improvement
5 November 2019
Ekipa Contributor
Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives afte…
4 Brilliant Ways Business Analysts Can Redefine Their Role in an Agile Environment
15 October 2019
Ekipa Contributor
We are all familiar with the role of Business Analysts (BA) and are aware of their key responsibilities in software development. The International Ins…
What Corporates can Learn from Startups – Part 2
24 September 2019
Hugo Messer
This article is a continuation of the article I wrote last week which can be found here . My favorite startup author, Eric Ries, write some very inter…
What Corporates can Learn from Startups – Part 1
18 September 2019
Hugo Messer
My favorite startup author, Eric Ries, write some very interesting points for corporate innovators in his book ‘the startup way’. He explains what mak…
How to spark Intrapreneurship?
16 September 2019
Hugo Messer
I was going through a paper shared by my new colleague Stefan Lindegaard: 'The people side of innovation'. One part struck me as the essence of innova…
My personal ‘Why’ to bring Corporate Startups in Indonesia
3 September 2019
Hugo Messer
Indonesia's booming economy (and it going digital) is one of the reasons why corporate startups are mushrooming in Indonesia. I’m a thinker. Most of m…
Things you should know About Agile and Innovation
26 August 2019
Hugo Messer
Hugo dissects the key essential elements of Agile and Innovation as key drivers in today's volatile and uncertain market that is constantly disrupted…
Top 5 blockers for starting your Startup and How to solve them
26 August 2019
Hugo Messer
Many people aspire to become entrepreneurs and start a company. Today more than ever, startups are attractive alternatives to working in an establishe…
How to make your teams deliver fast in Agile
14 August 2019
Anuraj
Agile teams normally fails to deliver fast due to a lot of impediments. Some of these impediments are visible, while most of them are not. Let's try t…
6 Steps to Begin Your Agile Transformation
30 July 2019
Rez Harditya
So you’re an agile missionary and you want your company to taste the sweet paradise of agile-topia. You’ve read the agile books, attended trainings an…
Agile Entrepreneurship
11 November 2017
Hugo Messer
The more time I spend in community groups like Agile Circles, the more I come to 2 conclusions: A. we are building ‘the organisations of the future‘ (…
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