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.
Exploring the impact of GenAI in our organizations & creating business impact through technology leadership.
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
The debate over in-office versus remote work misses a fundamental truth: high-performing teams succeed based on how they’re organized, not where they sit.
Leaders can help their organizations move from the danger zone to the winning zone by changing how they wire their organization’s social circuitry.
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.
Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler
Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy. Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy.
Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy.
Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy.
For anyone frustrated by roadblocks, irritated the business can’t move fast enough, or suffering under the weight of crushing procedures, this book is for you.
No matter your role, you need a playbook for bureaucracy. This is it. With this playbook, you can wield bureaucracy as a superpower and bust through it at the same time
Bureaucracy is everywhere, learn how to navigate the #1 foe of Agility.
As a former public servant and CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services and Intrax Cultural Exchange, Mark Schwartz is the perfect guide to overcoming bad bureaucracy.
Follow along with the playbook provided in the book to become a master bureaucrat.
If you have ever encountered bureaucracy then grab this book and win the day!
For anyone frustrated by roadblocks, irritated the business can’t move fast enough, or suffering under the weight of crushing procedures, this book is for you. No matter your role, you need a playbook for bureaucracy. This is it. With this playbook, you can wield bureaucracy as a superpower and bust through it at the same time
Mark Schwartz is an iconoclastic CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon Web Services, he uses his CIO experience to bring strategies to enterprises or enterprises to strategies, and bring both to the cloud. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provoked the federal government into adopting Agile and DevOps practices. He is pretty sure that when he was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange he was the first person ever to use business intelligence and supply chain analytics to place au pairs with the right host families. Mark speaks frequently on innovation, bureaucratic implications of DevOps, and using Agile processes in low-trust environments. With a BS in computer science from Yale, a master’s in philosophy from Yale, and an MBA from Wharton, Mark is either an expert on the business value of IT or else he just thinks about it a lot.
former VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, Amazon Web Services
COO, Fannie Mae
Cloud Native Consultant, Container Solutions
Specialist Leader, Deloitte Digital
Global Head of Cloud Adoption and Governance at Yoox Net0-a-Porter Group
Program Director and Senior Lecturer, SHAW School of Management and Law
CDO, Grupo Boticario
VP Digital Strategy, Salesforce
Business Relationship Manager, PepsiCo
Deputy CIO, IT Development, Mobility, Smart Cities, Arizona State University
CIO, CDO, Cabot Microelectronics
Sales Manager, Air France-KLM
SVP, Cloud and Advanced Technology, Bank of America
Executive Director, Corporate Development, Global Bank
Cloud Nativ Consultant, Container Solutions
Enterprise Architect, Bank of Cyprus
Solutions Architect, Women in Tech, Women in IT
Former Acting Department of Defense Principal Deputy DIO, CIO US Coast Guard, and CIO US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Operations Director, DevOps LATAM
Chief Research Director, DevOps Institute
Founder, Enterprise Sales Forum and Dev.Biz.Ops
Senior Transformation Manager, LEGO
Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
A companion reader’s guide to the book The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler.
IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
