Vodafone - Mission Impossible? A complex yet exciting journey

11.25am – 11.55am GMT, 23 March 2023 ‐ 30 mins

Business Agility

Adopting Lean Portfolio Management is a complex journey. We have embarked on this journey towards increased Business Agility by thinking big and starting small, relentlessly going step by step towards our North Star.

We will share with you how leadership engagement and psychological safety are key for the success of our transformation, how we are adopting the concepts of crawling, walking, running, flying and how important a strong communication strategy and plan are. 

Silke Eggert

Silke Eggert

Head of Lean Portfolio Management and Transformation, Vodafone

Passionate about driving complex change, setting up new capabilities and providing leadership in cross-functional complex transformation programmes, Silke is the Head of Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation in the global Digital & IT organisation in Vodafone. In this role, Silke is establishing Lean Portfolio Management for Digital & IT and responsible for the implementation of SAFe for Vodafone. 

Silke has 25 years of successful management experience in large-scale transformation and technology integration programmes, customer service delivery, strategic alliance management/partner management and marketing in the ICT industry. She first adopted and implemented agile ways of working in 2018 and has put SAFe into practice for the largest OSS and BSS transformation programme for VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands. She lives near Düsseldorf, Germany, with her husband and their two daughters. Outside work, Silke enjoys spending time with her family and dog, travelling and reading 

Email:
silke.eggert@vodafone.com
Website:
www.vodafone.com/
LinkedIn:
https://linkedin.com/in/silkeeggert/
Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa 
We connect for a better future, using technology to improve people’s lives and enable an inclusive, sustainable digital society.
We are guided by our Social Contract – how we bring our purpose to life through what we do. It is our commitment to society, customers, and governments to connect rural communities, to enable access to education, healthcare, and financial services; and to help businesses. With these actions we also contribute to the success of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Through our business, we aim to build a digital society that enhances socioeconomic progress, is inclusive for all and does not come at a cost to our planet.  
 

Twitter:
@VodafoneGroup
Website:
www.vodafone.com/
LinkedIn:
https://linkedin.com/company/vodafone/