The Age of AI Will Reveal the True Agilists
Agility needs to emerge in an agile way. Empowerment, experimentation, respect for people, self-determination, learning, everybody bringing their brains to work and continuously improving how they do what they do, are core tenets of an agile and lean mindset. The work itself is emergent and so is improving the system of work for that work.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level global picture. It’s less about knowing how to patch a system and more about knowing that it needs to be patched. It’s more about architecture, and less about implementation. Precisely where generalists ... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
Another reason why operational efficiency has taken priority over operational agility is the investment classification systems used in many enterprises. A number of classification schemes are used today, but they generally follow along the lines of that offered by MIT’s Computer Information Systems Research group: infrastructure, transactional, inf
... See moreJim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
- You Have to Be Faster and Smarter Than the Client.
The only reason to hire an outside partner is because they bring something the inside team doesn’t. If your agency is figuring it out as they go, they’re not an asset—they’re a liability. Clients don’t have time for your learning curve. They want a team that’s already fluent, already moving, alrea