Case Study: E.ON
Builiding a Body of Confidence at E.ON E.ON is a multinational company with around 43,000 employees, 22 million power and gas customers, and over 980,000km of networks – and they’re embracing agility. The energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges and change. E.ON is an international, privately owned energy supplier based in Essen, Germany, aiming to…
Builiding a Body of Confidence at E.ON
E.ON is a multinational company with around 43,000 employees, 22 million power and gas customers, and over 980,000km of networks – and they’re embracing agility.
The energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges and change. E.ON is an international, privately owned energy supplier based in Essen, Germany, aiming to become the partner of choice for energy and customer solutions. Their agile transformation started in 2011 and is still developing and having a profound impact on E.ON to this day. Extensive innovation is never straightforward and their effort is a credit to a traditional multinational whose history goes back almost a hundred years.
| Challenges: | Solutions: |
| > Well established, highly distributed and hierarchical multinational > Doubt that the organisation could become entrepreneurial in culture > Scepticism regarding the value of agility > 12 agile coaches to change an organisation of 43,000 employees. | > Starting small > Finding an internal sponsor > Focusing on evidence and transparency of results > Developing a growth mindset > Targeting behaviours as well as processes > Communicating constantly and bringing people together outside the line organisation |
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