LINK: “How to make conscious decisions about digital transformation”
…a set of questions to help get to the why, as well as the what, of digital transformation. Original:
Dave Briggs
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Dave Briggs
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LINK: “The Importance of Product Management in Government”
…the approach taken to build and deliver digital products needs to evolve to take advantage of modern software development methods including agile iterative development, human centered design, and continuous delivery. Despite fancy design labs and alleged “digital transformation” capabilities, most…
LINK: “Tesla, software and disruption”
When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G,…
LINK: “Apple, Sui Generis”
Wall Street still doesn’t trust Apple’s future. The company is seen as an anomaly, it shuns accepted ways of doing business and defies categorization. Perhaps the categories are wrong. Original:
LINK: “Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay”
Slack’s success has always been a bit surprising because it’s facing off against giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Salesforce and many others, all gunning for this upstart’s market. In fact, Microsoft is giving Teams away for free to Office…
LINK: “Not a technical founder? This is how you build a tech company”
If your aim is to build a company that leverages technology to disrupt and dismantle some archaic experience but you don’t have those skills, then there are 3 things to keep in mind Original:
LINK: “The Future of Software Is No Code”
Today, companies like Quick Base, Mendix, and Zudy are pioneering a similar movement, attempting to transform code into visual interfaces. Much like in the shift from assembly code to FORTRAN, the underlying code is still there, but it can be…
LINK: “Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics”
I wanted to seek out the experience of these companies and ask: does remote work propagate, mitigate, or change the experience of office politics? What tactics are startups using to combat office politics, and are any of them effective? Original:…
LINK: “Technology innovation in government survey”
The objective of the survey was to understand current activity across government in what might be termed new or emerging technologies that are related to digital or information technologies. Loosely defined, these are new technologies that do not currently have…
LINK: “All change is system change”
All change is system change — to say otherwise is to ignore a fundamental truth about organisations being living breathing human systems. Original: