DUBAI: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, DEWA, organized a workshop for top management called “DEWA’s Enterprise Agility from Leading to Global” in collaboration with McKinsey & Company as part of DEWA’s strategy to become a fully agile utility.
The workshop was attended by the MD & CEO of DEWA, DEWA’s Executive Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, and international enterprise agility experts.
DEWA’s Enterprise Agility Survey; aligning operations and services with DEWA’s agility framework; benchmarks in enterprise agility with similar organizations, and identifying priorities to promote DEWA’s enterprise agility are a few topics that were discussed in the workshop.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, informed in the workshop that the Designing the Next 50 project was recently launched. The project aims to shape the future of the UAE and establish the pillars and components of the UAE Centennial Plan 2071. He further said that organizations must develop in line with the changes and turn challenges into opportunities within a comprehensive system of integrated organizational work.
Al Tayer thanked McKinsey & Company for its cooperation in organizing this workshop, which identified the key challenges DEWA has to overcome to become an agile world-class utility and achieve the vision to become a globally leading sustainable innovative corporation.
Waleed Salman, Executive Vice President of Business Development & Excellence at DEWA noted that 20 staff members in leading positions have received Certified Agile Leadership, CAL, certificates, and 20 Agility Champions received Certified Scrum Master, CSM, certificates for agile project management, accredited by the Scrum Alliance this year.
Source: WAM
