Steigerung der Innovationskraft einer Schweizer Stiftung – IdéeSport’s Transformation zu einer agilen Organisation

Agile transformation can be a way for companies to strengthen their innovative power while finding a balance between explorative and exploitative solutions to current challenges. This is how the Swiss non-profit organization IdéeSport saw its opportunity to transform in an agile and self-organized way to become more attractive to its target groups. Based on the HR Pioneers Trafo Model and the circle model of collegial leadership, IdéeSport applied a practical transformation architecture with action clusters in three successive phases. This process was scientifically accompanied through a case study approach by conducting workshops and interviews. The company’s action research showed the importance of step-by-step planning and implementation that involves customers, employees, and managers from the beginning, and how crucial it is to establish an organically grown learning culture. This paper identifies which action clusters were relevant to IdéeSport’s successful transformation into an agile organization and formulates practical recommendations for an agile transformation in the public foundation sector in Switzerland.