PickMe named among the World’s Most Agile

This year’s World Agility Forum nominated PickMe for the Best Agile Transformation Initiative award, placing this innovative ride hailing company amongst the world’s most agile global giants such as FedEx and Holubuva. Although PickMe did not bag the award this year, it was the only Sri Lankan organisation picked by the Forum to compete against these conglomerates for their agile thinking.

Speaking about the nomination, Chief Executive Officer of PickMe, Zulfer Jiffry says the feat was possible because of the capability of the PickMe app to pivot and expand. “Before COVID-19 became a local phenomenon, customers used our app mostly for travelling and food deliveries. But in order to stay relevant to our employees, partners, community and government in these pandemic times, we had to come up with a viable plan which would benefit all stakeholders. Our digital platform was resilient and pivotal which meant the system just needed a little tweaking from pre-pandemic structures to get into crisis-mode. We had to innovate, and that’s what we all did from Engineering to Operations, and as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of all inventions. We found ourselves thinking through the processes of human consumption under lockdown conditions and by applying digital solutions, we came up with the most relevant applications to fit this changed environment. We launched several new services that are now invaluable to our customers. While we did all this with an absolutely dedicated team, it is heartening to gain recognition for our work by a prestigious entity like the World Agility Forum who thought us worthy to compete against the world’s most agile and innovative organisations.”