Agile was only the Beginning

From Agile to China Speed: Reinventing Management for the AI Era
The Agile movement has lost momentum. Many organizations are still too slow, transformations have stalled, and despite massive investment in AI, leaders are not seeing the impact they expected.
What if Agile was never the destination — but only the beginning? And what if the next leap is China Speed?
After experiencing firsthand how China’s and the West’s most progressive organizations operate at a fundamentally different speed and scale, Mirko Kleiner came back with one provocative question:
What if we are 20 years behind?
In this session, Mirko takes us from the management models of the Industrial Age through Agile and Product Operating Models to China Speed and the AI era. Drawing on real-world examples from Haier, GE Appliances, P3, Bayer, Roche and others, he explores why AI alone won’t make our organizations faster — and why applying AI to yesterday’s management system may simply help us do the wrong things faster.
The question is no longer “How do we scale Agile?” but “How do we reinvent management to compete at China Speed in the AI era?”
Welcome to ZER0 — The Management Model for the AI Era.