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Organizational Culture and Integrated Problem Solving: Excerpt from Ep. 17 of The Idealcast 

May 11, 2021 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

Westrum organizational typology

The culture of an organization is important. It makes a difference in how everything comes out. In this excerpt for Episode 17 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim espouses on Ron Westrum’s question: How do you measure culture? --- I just wanted to break in quickly and give some more information on what Dr. Westrum was just referring to, because believe it or not, this also came up in the workshop that I took at MIT with Dr. Steven Spear in 2014.  NASA: Experimental versus Compliance-Driven … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organizational Change, The Idealcast, Workplace Culture Tagged With: culture, Gene Kim, integrated problem-solving, nasa, ron westrum, the idealcast, united flight 232, westrum organizational typology

Culture and Leadership: The Seven Domains of Transformation

March 2, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This is part of our Seven Domains of Transformation series, which has been adapted from the Project to Product Transformation white paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Jason Zubrick, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren. You can download and read the white paper in its entirety here. Why Is Culture and Leadership Important? A product-centric operating model requires high levels of empowerment, collaboration, and experimentation. As Peter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Workplace Culture Tagged With: culture, devops enterprise forum, leadership, project to product tranformation, seven domains of transformtion

Q&A with Mark Schwartz and Gene Kim – A Seat at the Table

May 22, 2019 by Ann Leave a Comment

Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mark Schwartz about Mark's new book, War and Peace and IT, Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age: Gene Kim: What inspired you to write a book about IT management for business leaders? Mark Schwartz: I meet with executives from over a hundred large enterprises each year. It’s amazing how patterns emerge: so many of them are trying to transform digitally, trying to find new sources of growth and to survive disruption—and yet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, War and Peace and IT Tagged With: agile, business, culture, devops, enterprise, executive, information technology, IT, leadership, lean, management, operations, the art of business value

Biggest Obstacles to DevOps Success According to DOES17 London Conference Speakers

April 26, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

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Though DevOps adoption has picked up speed in the last few years, many organizations still have a long way to go. Let’s face it, we wouldn’t be meeting in London in June if DevOps transformations were a piece of cake. The reality is that change takes time. Our talented DevOps Enterprise Summit London speakers have worked on implementing DevOps at some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations and are well aware of the obstacles impeding DevOps success. We asked them what the biggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit Tagged With: culture, organization design, skills

Patience, Evolution, Politics and Permission

April 17, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

Rob England

Rob England Shares Top Lessons Learned While Leading DevOps Transformations The speakers we have on this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES17) London agenda are no doubt the best of the best. We recently made the full conference program available, so you can browse the sessions for yourself and start planning your DOES17 experience. If you haven’t had a chance to take a look yet, you can find the agenda here. We’re thrilled to have Rob England, independent IT management consultant, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit Tagged With: culture, devops

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