LLMs and Generative AI in the enterprise.
Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
Just as physical jerk throws our bodies off balance, technological jerk throws our mental models and established workflows into disarray when software changes too abruptly or without proper preparation.
Sure, vibe coding makes you code faster—that’s the obvious selling point. But if you think speed is the whole story, you’re missing out on the juicy stuff.
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
About The Author
David Ariens entered the world of large chemical plants in 2010 as a freshly graduated mathematical engineer, stepping into a newly invented position: data scientist at BASF, the multinational chemical giant. He arrived at a pivotal moment—that same year, the industrial world was shaken by Stuxnet, the first computer virus to target an industrial plant. Designed to damage an Iranian uranium enrichment facility previously considered impregnable, Stuxnet sent a shock wave through the industry and marked the tipping point when IT made its way into the heart of manufacturing companies.Building the bridge between the corporate IT world and the operational OT world became Ariens's profession. He traveled the globe, guiding companies through this complex and fascinating change. In 2012 he introduced BASF's global Industrial Cyber Security program and was put in charge of overseeing the EMEA region. By 2018 he had become responsible for the industrial digitalization teams at one of the world's largest chemical production sites—the BASF facility in Antwerp—while also taking functional leadership of the EMEA Industry 4.0 team.Between 2022 and 2025 Ariens was the manager of Analytics For Industry, a company focused on accelerating IT/OT convergence. He serves as an advisory board member for the software startup Timeseer.AI and teaches courses on industrial digital transformation. He is committed to becoming the go-to resource for leaders navigating this paradigm shift.
