DAB PUMPS – Agile meets Manufacturing

Abstract

Companies and organizations are aware of the need to build adaptive systems, able to combine the effectiveness of processes with innovation in order to face a constantly increasing complexity.
And so DAB Pumps S.p.A is now facing increasingly challenging contexts. Precisely because they are characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and consequent ambiguity.
The spirit of innovation and the choice to embrace ambitious paths of change have led DAB to achieve great growth in recent years.
The theme is to create an "adaptive organization", wider and more horizontal than traditional hierarchical structures, where people are encouraged to make decisions independently and solve problems thanks to their attitude to problem solving, through experimentation and adaptation. This is to cope and react more effectively and efficiently to external demand and continuous change.
Starting in 2017 with the first 2 agile projects and about forty people involved, DAB today has 60 cross-functional global teams, with over 300 people engaged.
One of DAB's beliefs is that Agile does not mean applying a specific framework, obtaining certifications or having an agile coach in the company, but represents a predominantly cultural theme.
The same logic also guides our "people strategy", which promotes an organizational model that can constantly adapt through a network of cross-functional teams that grow, learn and innovate in a continuous cycle of learning and development.