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Innovation Startups Modeling Agile Culture

Innovation is not only about the most advanced technology; management and processes are the new era of startups' innovation. To mix the power of the data and the importance of people to offer business intelligence is a key point nowadays. The result is not only the most important thing; the way you do it is more important. To be agile is to adapt to today's market.

Alejandro Ruiz
on Jul 17, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leading Lean

Leading Lean by Jean Dahl describes a journey that leaders can embark on to respond to disruptive change. It leads them through the six dimensions of leading self, others, the customer, and the enterprise, by creating an innovative culture that delivers value. It provides not just the theory behind Modern Lean, but also practical methods, tools, strategies, and case studies.

Ben Linders Jean Dahl
on Jun 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Testing Business Ideas

The book Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder provides experiments that can be used to find out if your product ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. Experimentation also helps to reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success of new venture or business projects.

Ben Linders David Bland Alex Osterwalder
on Jan 22, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book: The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era

The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits.

Ben Linders Jens Flanding Genevieve Grabman Sheila Cox
on Oct 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Being an Ethical Software Engineer

Our lives are improving because of technology. Software engineering is one of the more influencing practices we have today that is shaping society, but it doesn’t look like the industry is owning this social responsibility. At the end of the day, it’s not just about being better developers, but rather about being better people.

Rotem Hermon
on May 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

Cultivating a Learning Organisation

This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.

Andrea Dobson
on May 24, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Designing the Future

The book Designing the Future by James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker shows how companies are using Lean Product and Process Development to create new products and services and become innovative. It explores how to get the most from LPPD by developing a system of people, process and the right tools at the right time.

Ben Linders Jeffrey Liker James Morgan
on Mar 26, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Unlocking Agility

In the book Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg explores how to embrace agility in large organizations and what can be done to remove impediments across the enterprise. It provides practical advice, resources and guidance with real-life examples of successes and failures from companies across a variety of industries.

Ben Linders Jorgen Hesselberg
on Mar 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Evidence-Based Management Guide - Updated

The Evidence-Based Management Guide provides a framework for organizations to measure, manage, and increase the value they derive from their product delivery. The updated version includes a new key value area called Unrealized Value and provides example measures that organizations can use to find their own measures that fit their context.

Ben Linders Patricia Kong Kurt Bittner
on Jan 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Space as an Enabler - Coworking as a Mindset

Coworking is a mindset that describes the future of work. The coworking manifesto provides a framework of values to create sustainable communities based on trust, where businesses, entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental and technical communities can work together.

Ben Linders Dina Sierralta
on Jan 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Driving Digital Strategy

The book Driving Digital Strategy by Sunil Gupta provides guidelines and advice for executing fundamental digital transformations in companies, based on lessons from digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. To be successful you have to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization, argued Gupta.

Ben Linders Sunil Gupta
on Dec 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Are You the Barrier to Innovation?

You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.

Robert Zazueta
on Sep 12, 2018