can big be beautiful?
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Group CEO Michael Rasmussen
Nykredit: A company undergoing (big) change
Company factbox Founded in 1851 One of Europe’s largest bond-issuers Largest lending institution in Denmark DKK 1,121bn Revenue (2015) DKK 11,9bn Profit (2015) DKK 4,9bn 3.800 employees
Change corporate culture
New leadership values
Empowerment
Academy for systematic
training of 400 leaders
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A paradigm shift for Nykredit IT: becoming a service provider
IT factbox Large systems landscape (400+ apps) woven from
- vendor applications - homegrown applications - sourced services, incl. cloud
International multi-location setup 400 employees
Agile transformation
Empowerment
Open architecture for
Open Banking
Partner APIs Group CIO Carsten Smith
Imagine Google or Starbucks as a bank. Unthinkable? Not at all. New market entrants offer viable alternatives to the classic banking products like deposits and loans. And they are not the only ones wanting to conquer the marketplace. We must prepare Nykredit to do so. IT and Retail have taken the first steps.
”We must start doing things differently”
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A paradigm shift for Nykredit IT: becoming a service provider
IT factbox Large systems landscape (400+ apps) woven from
- vendor applications - homegrown applications - sourced services, incl. cloud
International multi-location development setup 400 employees Some of the talent on our team:
Agile transformation
Empowerment
Open architecture for
Open Banking
Partner APIs Group CIO Carsten Smith
Imagine Google or Starbucks as a bank. Unthinkable? Not at all. New market entrants offer viable alternatives to the classic banking products like deposits and loans. And they are not the only ones wanting to conquer the marketplace. We must prepare Nykredit to do so. IT and Retail have taken the first steps.
”We must start doing things differently”
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A paradigm shift for Nykredit IT: becoming a service provider
IT factbox Open architecture for Open Banking Exposing REST APIs Ambition level: Partner APIs
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A paradigm shift for Nykredit IT: changing the technology stack
IT factbox Client technologies
Service technologies
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The digital challenge is ‘change’: disruption + technology + security + speed - agility is a prerequisite to remain relevant
We started by building a vision for IT around ‘agile’ and …
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… then initiated a pilot at large scale to learn the problems of agile at scale
The essence of our agile organisation V1.0 is (more) fixed teams, with deeper business & tech insights, and faster off the mark …
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Less ‘being really sure' more
Empowerment … It is our ambition to create a company culture that nurtures everyones
span of control within clear boundaries and wirh common goals,
where we all assume responsibility and exemplify initiative
… is a 2-way street
… and the essence of our transformation is to create the right conditions for the teams to function
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When we say ‘agile organisation’, we mean the entire organisation - these are the CIO and the senior leadership team kanban boards
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Core elements in mobilising the agile organisation - while we’re off to a good start, there is still a lot to be done …
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Nykredit’s agile transformation journey
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Starting point Matrix organisation Separate project & maintenance teams
Agile organisation V1.0 Agile methodologies fully adopted ‘Fixed’ teams with dedicated Product Owners Teams assume full lifecycle ownership of SW
Scaled agile Consistent (high) maturity in teams Effective delivery of complex solutions
Value streams T-competence team profiles Emergence of value stream teams Embedded business resources
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