This is a scary time for a company. But the state of play creates the potential for mass and creative disruption. — $1 Billion for Dollar Shave Club: Why Every Company Should Worry @ NYTimes Every company is a digital company. No longer is it a question of if your product will become digital – as… Continue reading Data is the currency of your Digital Transformation
Category: Technology Leadership
Key to Big Data Success – Data Driven Culture
I’m not always sure people always know what they mean when they talk about Big Data – and even when they do know, I’m not sure they can contrast this new Big Data thing from Data’s previous incarnation. So let’s see if we can clear it up. Prior to big data the amount and content… Continue reading Key to Big Data Success – Data Driven Culture
Emotions & Facts – Becoming data driven by overcoming bias
Humans are very, very good at rapid pattern recognition. It is the basis of the flight or fight response and based on our ability to see past events in current and future situations. … humans are amazing pattern-recognition machines. They have the ability to recognize many different types of patterns – and then transform these “recursive… Continue reading Emotions & Facts – Becoming data driven by overcoming bias
“Only doing what we can execute now” is a terrible strategy – a prescription for unsticking your engineering team.
I engage with a lot of engineering teams (and leaders) that are stuck. They know full well they need to do something to enable thier product, service or business team – but they can’t get started. In almost every case I find a culture of resistance – which can be best summarized as: I don’t… Continue reading “Only doing what we can execute now” is a terrible strategy – a prescription for unsticking your engineering team.
Leadership: Risk or Opportunity Focused
As I’ve worked with teams engineering teams big and small – in both enterprise and startup contexts – over the last 20 years I’ve noticed two distinct patterns in leadership and their impact on the culture and productivity of those teams. Pattern: Risk Focused Leadership Risk focused leadership emphasizes the up front identification and mitigation of… Continue reading Leadership: Risk or Opportunity Focused