To provide organizations with the skills they need to adaptively organize in a dynamic world  - helping them sustainably generate business value

Through our deep understanding of adaptive frameworks and our experience with organizations struggling to maintain relevance in a fast-changing landscape, we have learned that the key lies in building the internal capabilities necessary for ongoing adaptability.

Whether moving from a monolithic to a cloud-based architecture, dealing with highly dynamic customer requirements or handling a distributed organization, adaptability is not about following a formula but about evolving continuously and smoothly to use the most modern technologies to best serve customers. Companies that fail to cultivate the skills to adapt, experience wasted efforts, missed opportunities and frustration as they struggle to move towards a target that is moving faster than themselves.

Rather than a one-time reorganization, we see modern organizational transformation as an adaptive process that equips people with the tools to foster long-term flexibility and resilience. 

Real transformation occurs when individuals within an organization can lead and sustain the change themselves, reshaping how the organization operates and thrives.

Our focus is on providing prodcts to embed practical, sustainable skills that align with everyday business challenges while fostering a deeper cultural shift. The true success of any change effort is in making it self-sustaining—where the organization continues to adapt and grow, generating ongoing business value in an ever-evolving environment.

We believe that every organization’s path to adaptability is unique, and while standard frameworks such as SAFe® can provide structure, they must be adapted to meet specific organizational contexts and challenges. True adaptability is not about using a specific framework but about embedding the right skills and mindsets to evolve an organization’s DNA.

By freely sharing our pragmatic insights, experiences, and ideas around adaptive organizational design for volatile business environments, we contribute to the evolving knowledge base on organizational flexibility and resilience. This open approach fosters continuous learning—both for our clients and ourselves—as, together, we navigate the complexities of building strong organizations which are fit for the future.

We’ve learned that large-scale organizational change is primarily a sociotechnical challenge, which many companies struggle to address. Most frameworks and approaches oversimplify the transformation process, glossing over the intricate human and technical interplay required for success - applying mechanisitic approaches to sociotechnical problems. This leads to missed opportunities and wasted resources, keeping companies from reaching their full potential.

Our goal is to provide the skills and abilities that allow organizations to continually adapt, thrive, and generate sustainable value for themselves and their customers.

We provide workshops and training to give you the skills to help your organization become more adaptable and resilient. Whether you want to make a small change to increase organizational adaptability or  transform your entire company, our focus is on putting you in charge of your change and equipping you with the skills you need. We are certified agile experts with particular experience in SAFe.

All our products are designed to provide both direct and concrete benefit as well as support larger transformation initiatives. This way, we ensure that – even in the early stages of a transition to a more flexible and modern way of working – false steps are minimized.

We have a policy of sharing our work as freely as possible. Almost nothing on our website is restricted. 

Why?

Because we believe that the best way to achieve our mission is not through selling our ideas but through sharing them and learning from others.

If something here helps you in your work in making your organization more adaptable, then we are one step closer to achieving our goal. So feel free to download, copy and build on any information you can find here. We ask only that you don’t copy and sell our ideas as your own.

Reach out if we can help or if you wish to discuss or develop ideas. We welcome feedback and comments on anything you can find here. Use the link to browse our media library. Note that to access some documents we do ask you to leave your email address so that we can develop an understanding of who is using our ideas and concepts.

To maximize learning we have a policy of sharing our work as much as feasible - and we invite others to share with us.

• We are actively involved in communities such as SAFe-Treff, Systemisches Denken, BIT SAFe-Meetup and more.

• We have produced or are involved in a number of Webinars - see our media library and filter for webinars for details. 

• We participate in social media discussions around scaled agility

• We have given a number of conference talks (filter our media page for conferences)

• We join conferences where possible to discuss with peers

We are constantly trying to extend our network, so feel free to contact us.

We invite you to download and read any of our papers and share your comments (filter our media page for white papers and one-pagers)

Founded in February 2024 by Manfred Becking and Richard Butler, Rimagin seeks to fill the gap between the promises of scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LESS, S@S etc and the reality faced by organizations as they try to succeed in their agile transformations.

We were key players in the Deutsche Telekom enterprise transformation (which ran at full steam from about 2018 to 2023) and in which over eight thousand people moved from working in a centralized quarterly-release-based development model with large monolithic systems to a modern cloud-based, distributed environment.

With hands-on experience of the good (and also not-so-good) parts of large scale transformations and scaled agility (covering areas such as value streams, moving to micro-service and cloud-based solutions, agile organizational structures, intregrating devOps, training academies and systemic approaches) we realized that a focus on frameworks such as SAFe is not enough to help organizations survive in a VUCA environment and we developed our mission to teach the skills to help organizations become adaptable so they may not only survive, but thrive in the digital world.

We partner with select coaches and consultants who have hands-on experience, pragmatism and creativity.