Culture
Shift
Culture Manifesto
While there is value in the items at the bottom, we value more the items at the top.
Empowerment Over Control
We trust our team. Skilled and motivated team members who have decision-making power, take ownership, communicate regularly with other team members, and share ideas that deliver quality products.
Data Over Opinions
We care about each team member’s opinion and respect it. But when it comes to making important decisions, we rely on data to guide us.
Test & Learn Over Plans
Because we learn as we go, and in order to avoid delays when a requirement or feature request changes, we need to be flexible and constantly accommodate our development process.
Collaboration Over Protection
Collaboration between the business stakeholders and developers throughout the project enables better decisions to be made because the business and technical team are aligned.
Users Over Customers
We care about our customers, but with a user centric approach.
Failure Over not Trying
We’ll never blame anyone in our teams for failing. Because with agile, when you fail, you fail fast and learn from it. Which is not the case when you don’t try.
Why a Digital Transformation?
The digital revolution leads Thales to new business opportunities thanks to new digital solutions and the possibility of achieving operational excellence through new working methods. These new working methods provide employees with a whole new experience, new processes and a change in culture. They will also allow Thales to attract and retain their talents.
Our major goal is to help our customers to master crucial business moments, meaning that we need to excel in mastering the decision chain (i.e. detection, collection, transmission, secure storage and data processing). This challenge brings the use of technologies beyond what is currently being done.
However, the digital revolution has brought many other technologies such as the Cloud, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) which are transforming products and solutions' design. Becoming the leader of these digital technologies for the BtoB and BtoG sectors is within our reach and will allow us to develop key differentiators.
However, the digital revolution has brought many other technologies such as the Cloud, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) which are transforming products and solutions' design. Becoming the leader of these digital technologies for the BtoB and BtoG sectors is within our reach and will allow us to develop key differentiators.
7 digital transformation workstreams:
Focus on User Experience
GAFAs and rising unicorns have set user expectations standards when it comes to digital experience. Therefore Thales puts user experience (UX) at the heart of its digital transformation, and consolidates the Thales State of UX to leverage UX/design best practices.
Deploy digital culture and processes
To develop an end-user oriented culture and accelerate the decision making process as well as innovation, Thales must adapt its culture and processes, working in empowered multidisciplinary teams providing full transparency. Teams must deliver the highest quality products and services while reacting fast to a changing environment
Become a digital platform company
The digital way of doing business allows to shift from traditional product business models to usage driven business models though digital services hosted on a digital platform. This gives us the potential to grow exponentially with a high profitability, allowing to price based on usage and value rather than on cost. Companies that fail to embrace the digital platform economy run the risk of being disintermediated by pure digital players.
Become a data driven company
The Group can rely on the mass of data generated during projects, product design and operations but also on data acquired on the market. Now is the time to take position in data valuation for B2B and B2G that has the potential to grow very fast over the next few years.
Deliver a digital workplace
By providing a cutting-edge digital workplace that offers to its employees an environment as limitless as their daily, Thales will be able to retain the digital talents to achieve its transformation while drastically improving its work efficiency.
Deploy digital technologies
Thales will remain a technological pioneer by continuously leveraging technologies such as Big data & AI, Cyber Security or connectivity to offer disruptive products and services at a much more competitive cost.
Cybersecured in Thales
Thales is ideally positioned to offer its customers products and services that combine ease of use and the highest possible standards in terms of resilience, security and safety. The Cyber Secured in Thales program must leverage this position to propel Thales ahead of competition.
