
Politicians love claiming they are supporting job growth and innovation. But are they really? Or does it just sound good?
The actual results of agile are significantly below what is promised. Most companies (often including vendors) applying agile focus on process, because that’s how they think they’ll get efficiency gains. But they miss key subtle points underlying how agile really works when it delivers 15x gains.
First discover the outcomes your customer cares about. Then do everything else, including product discovery.
If your time frames are spinning out of control, it might be due this easily overlooked subtlety
Resource optimization at most companies is still a bit medieval.
Fix this _one_ thing, when you feel constantly weighed down by scheduling pressures and the passing of time
Adaptive innovation focuses on building and releasing new products in high levels of uncertainty, and optimizing resources as you go. Not just up front at the planning stage. So you release new products faster.
I was co-organising an innovation senior management offsite of a major logistics company. Hundreds of thousands of employees. Yes, even C-level management needed a few floors in a hotel to get together, the company was that big. It was remote, sunny, and balmy. Weaving in and out of the main collection area on one of…
In order to understand real options, you need to understand financial options. Financial options are the biggest tectonic shift in finance of the 20th century. The main concept behind financial options is simple. In non-financial terms, an option gives you the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell something at a pre-specified price,…
Unsurprising confession: when I was a scrappy young bachelor, I’d hit the clubs with friends. In a nightclub, anything can happen. I’ve started relationships, albeit not very healthy ones. Lots of Schwarzenegger bodies without Schwarzenegger minds emit intimidating body language. Even the roof can collapse (even though it’s unlikely). By combining vodka and Red Bull,…