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 … [Read more...]
Guest Q & A with Mark Schwartz, author of The Art of Business Value
The study of business value seems obvious at first—after all, over the course of our careers, we’ve all seen which activities create value and which ones waste everyone’s time. But what if our grasp of what business value really is, is not quite right to start with? In his new book, The Art of Business Value, the indomitable Mark Schwartz shows us that understanding business value is not as simple as it seems. I recently sat down with Schwartz to ask him a few questions about this elusive … [Read more...]
The Art of Business Value
Mark Schwartz, a leader in the field of Agile and DevOps practices and business intelligence, brings us The Art of Business Value in 2016. Schwartz pulls lessons from his professional expertise in the field of information technology to explore the concept of business value and how our understanding of it is a key element to creating a thriving organization. Author, researcher, and founder of IT Revolution, Gene Kim calls The Art of Business Value Irreverent and whimsical, [Schwartz] challenges … [Read more...]
