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Scaling Agile Beyond Companies

LAP Alliance, Mirko Kleiner

Scaling Agile Beyond Companies

The Covid-19 crisis made it obvious we are at risk if we don’t manage our dependencies to our suppliers and partners along the whole supply chain. They are an essential part of our value stream/s we n...

Aug 22, 2023

Why Business Schools Teach Yesterday’s Expertise

Why Business Schools Teach Yesterday’s Expertise

“ Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ” ― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, ...

Aug 18, 2023

Why ‘Management’ Desperately Needs A Fresh Definition

A salient fact about management is the lack of clarity as to what it is. The monumental quantity of writing on the topic is vitiated by the lack of agreement as to what is being discussed. The conflic...

Aug 8, 2023

Pick mine, pick theirs, but pick a tool and stick with it!

Pick mine, pick theirs, but pick a tool and stick with it!

The utilization of management tools, ideas and frameworks has a strange cyclicality to it. The boss reads another book and suddenly we’re all required to calculate Net Promoter Scores! It’s worth taki...

Aug 3, 2023

Complexity is not Supposed to be Complex

Life is complex: an ever-changing tangle of joy and pain, failure and success, beauty and despair. Sometimes it sucks, like watching your mother fade away into dementia, or losing a beloved dog. Somet...

Jul 5, 2023

How are Nullables Different From Mocks?

How are Nullables Different From Mocks?

One of the most common questions I get about Nullables is, “How is that any different than a mock?” The short answer is that Nullables result in sociable, state-based tests, and mocks (and spies) resu...

Jun 6, 2023

Don’t Reorganize: Run Your Firm As An Agile Network

Don’t Reorganize: Run Your Firm As An Agile Network

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; General Stan McChrystal; Former SRI CEO Curt Carlson Executives often ask for advice on designing the structure for a customer-centric organization. Yet this is the wrong questi...

May 9, 2023

How a new kind of Business Model creates Digital Winners

How a new kind of Business Model creates Digital Winners

Back in the “olden days” of 2005, it was obvious that a firm needed to choose between two types of business architecture, as business guru Geoffrey Moore explained in his famous 2005 article in Harvar...

May 9, 2023

Manifesto for Management in the Digital Age

Manifesto for Management in the Digital Age

Figure 1: A Manifesto for Management in the Digital Age What used to work, doesn’t any more. The complexity and the pace of change of the digital age are so different from the industrial-era that gene...

May 9, 2023

What’s New About Strategy In The Digital Age

What’s New About Strategy In The Digital Age

The practice of business strategy is unrecognizable from what it was just a few years ago. Today, strategy at its best has become a digital-decoding, direction-setting, business model transforming, de...

May 5, 2023

Five Key Lessons From The 2008 ‘Moonshots For Management’

Five Key Lessons From The 2008 ‘Moonshots For Management’

As the challenge of re-imagining the concept of management re-emerges , it is instructive to learn from the 2008 ‘Moonshots For Management’ —a group of 25 management scholars and senior executives, le...

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Apr 6, 2023

What is the World Agility Forum

What is the World Agility Forum

The World Agility Forum is a conference like no other. It is a conference about re-imagining the very concept of management for the digital age. Management that was successful in the 20th century is o...

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Mar 23, 2023