Leading the conversation on digital connected work
Growth is supposedly the goal of all young businesses, later being leveraged into profit as processes are streamlined and cost-bases regularized. However, like any successful seed, growth at all costs and at any time can leave you dying on the vine rather than blossoming in the sunshine of success. Companies face many challenges when seeking...
From aerospace to retail, every industry is impacted by disruption, whether it’s from new technologies, new customer experiences, or even new business models. Many companies have responded to these threats by reinventing themselves—often from the inside out. When the metamorphosis includes an innovation platform, leaders are typically left to determine not only how to leverage...
The year was 2001. Seventeen software developers gathered together at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah to ski, network and discuss ways to improve what had been until then, standard processes for software development. The soon-to-be founding fathers and mothers of agile development were tired of the late deliveries, blown budgets and unsatisfied customers that...
In the first two posts of this series, we discussed how to get started with continuous improvement: First, how to prepare to practice continuous improvement, by setting up a Kanban board that enables you to track and measure your team’s work. Then, we shared how to gather, prioritize, implement, and measure the impact of your...
Remote workforces are increasingly becoming the norm, with more than eight million Americans now working from home. Though remote work can create some obstacles for the traditional way teams and offices work, it also presents new opportunities to enhance business agility for those who are willing to embrace it. This has been greatly helped by...
How do you prioritize your work? Do you have a process to figure out what to do first or to identify the work that will bring the most value to the business? If your answer is “no,” keep reading; and if you answered “yes,” there is always room to improve. You may be surprised by...
It’s been a year since the launch of Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, the bestselling book by Tasktop founder & CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten. With over 23,000 copies sold, the book currently sits within the Top 10 ‘Information Management’ bestsellers on Amazon,...
The British government is reveling in the news that UK employment continues to break records and shatter the predictions about the state of the nation’s economic health. Not only has the UK employment rate reached a record high, but the country also posted its 17th straight month of wage growth being higher than inflation, raising...
Let’s start with this: if the title of this article implied that the next few hundred words would be an all-out attack on the use of Scrum in agile marketing, then rest assured (or conversely, sorry to disappoint), that’s not the game plan. Scrum works quite well for some agile marketing teams. Some, that is...
Today marks one year since Project to Product was published. The book details my journey from empathizing with the frustrations of developers trying to deliver value to customers, to empathizing with the frustrations of entire organizations dealing with the onslaught of digital disruption. Helping developers was fairly straightforward, as that could be done with tools...
