Speed at scale, safely & sustainably via empowered excellence
Scale without slowdown, increase operational efficiency, and shorten time-to-value.
Looking to achieve speed at scale?
Most organizations face an impossible choice: optimize for speed and sacrifice scale, or optimize for scale and lose agility.
Rather than choosing between speed and scale, Conflux offers a third way: ‘empowered excellence’, achieving both speed and scale, creating clear boundaries that enable autonomy and encourage innovation, empowering teams of humans and AI agents to make decisions quickly, safely, and compliantly.
"The key to achieving speed at scale safely and sustainably is empowering teams to be excellent: trusting groups of people to make decisions quickly, safely, and compliantly within clear boundaries."
— Matthew Skelton, CEO/CTO of Conflux, co-author of Team Topologies
The cost of this false choice is staggering: $9.6 trillion lost annually to poor productivity and 79% of workers disengaged globally — Gallup - 2025 State of the global workplace report
Speed at scale, safely & sustainably via empowered excellence — S4E2™
Our S4E2™ approach unites people and technology. Rather than treating technology and people as separate functions, we help you integrate them as a unified system — enabling your organization to:
Achieve speed at scale: Move quickly without slowing down as you grow
Work safely: Maintain compliance, security, and data protection
Build sustainably: Create humane work environments that avoid burnout and cognitive overload
Innovate continuously: Adapt to changing technology and market demands
Proven outcomes
Millions in annual savings, rapid ROI, and faster time-to-value — empowered excellence delivers measurable impact across your organization.
EBSCO: Re-architecting teams and systems for flow
EBSCO achieved millions in annual savings and significantly faster delivery by empowering teams with clearer ownership boundaries and reduced dependencies.
$9.1M recurring annual cost reduction with 62% ROI
26% faster feature delivery
76% reduction in critical incidents
52% overall reduction in blockers
"We now have the tools to develop and maintain a consistent approach. If we need to reorganize or redesign into new enterprise capabilities or a new platform play, we have the playbook." — Nicole Casellini, VP Lean Enterprise Office, EBSCO IS
ABC Glofox: From feature factory to customer-centric innovation
ABC Glofox shifted from being a feature factory to empowering teams to solve customer problems, enabling a focus on business impact rather than output.
First month with zero customer churns attributed to quality
Teams consistently exceeding quarterly OKRs
Significantly higher team satisfaction
"Our teams have started to focus more on driving business impact and customer outcomes, rather than delivering against a roadmap." — Rob Meaney, Senior Director of Engineering, ABC Glofox
Telenet: Empowering end-to-end ownership
Telenet eliminated the business-IT divide by empowering customer-focused tribes with all the capabilities needed to deliver value independently.
Elimination of the traditional business-IT divide
Significantly fewer dependencies between teams
Faster delivery of value to customers
Enhanced organizational adaptability
"Our teams are equipped to keep sensing the health of their team boundaries, and to fluidly adapt where their context requires it." — John Porter, CEO, Telenet
Pinpoint exactly where you're excelling and where your most significant opportunities lie, with recommendations and ready-to-use questions for team discussions.
Conflux has identified the 9 dimensions that are common across all organizations that use fast flow to shape effectiveness and alignment, and successfully drive innovation and growth.
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Start your journey to empowered excellence
Book a 90-minute discovery call with our experts. We'll explore your specific challenges, calculate your ROI potential, and build your transformation roadmap.
Whether you're seeking clarity on your approach or ready for comprehensive transformation, Conflux supports organizations through four engagement types:
Assessments & expert sense-checks: for organizations seeking clarity on their approach
Workshops & training: for leadership teams building fast flow capabilities
Leadership ‘right-hand’ support: for individuals navigating organizational change
Driving transformations: for teams and organizations ready for comprehensive change
Join EBSCO, Telenet, and other leading organizations achieving millions in value through strategic Team Topologies implementation.
Featured articles
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The Hidden Millions: What are blocking dependencies really costing your organization?
Flow matters. Blocking dependencies create long wait times between teams, and imposing significant drains on your organization’s resources, but few leaders really quantify the actual financial impact of teams waiting on other teams to release work. We talk about the root causes of these dependencies and how to mitigate them.
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The ROI of Fast Flow: Real-World Impact on Enterprise Performance
Leading organizations are seeing remarkable results from adopting fast flow practices and Team Topologies approaches. JP Morgan reduced dependencies by 60% and increased flow velocity by 73% across 7,500 colleagues. LSA's research of 410 companies shows highly aligned organizations grow revenue 58% faster and are 72% more profitable.
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AI-native operating models: Critical pathways to enhanced value delivery
Successful AI adoption doesn't demand a complete reinvention of organizational principles — instead, it requires their intelligent evolution.
Organizations embracing AI capabilities need to look beyond surface-level implementation to achieve sustainable integration.