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…