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Q&A on the Book Fluid

The book Book Fluid: How Culture, Hidden Opportunities, and Flatter Structures Lead to Profitable Innovation explores how to create a culture of change in companies. Najeeb Khan shows how fluid companies can act with higher speed and experiment to innovate, and how to transform towards a flat structure that allows everyone to test and validate ideas.

Ben Linders Najeeb Khan
on Jul 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change

In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital

Oana Juncu
on Jun 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Improving Agile Retrospectives

The book Improving Agile Retrospectives by Marc Loeffler provides practices and approaches for doing agile retrospectives that support continuous improvement. According to Loeffler, agile retrospectives are workshops which need to be prepared and facilitated well in order to be beneficial to teams.

Ben Linders
on Feb 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Age of Surge

In the book The Age of Surge, Brad Murphy and Carol Mase explore a human-centered approach to scaling agility and transforming companies for digital. The book describes the Digital Wave Model which companies can use to disrupt organizational structures and business functions and re-create them to fit the digital landscape.

Ben Linders
on Jan 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

Robot Says "Culture" - Moving towards Teal

Culture is something to be cultivated, something which will grow and evolve and must be cared for and nurtured. Most organizations today are stuck in an orange state of consciousness and culture. Let's explore the teal breakthroughs in self-management, evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and see how implementing teal-type working can lead to significant productivity and profitability gains.

Ash Sheikh
on Jul 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book It's All Upside Down

In the book It's all Upside Down, Paul McMahon provides stories from software development teams supported by upside down principles and coaching tips for applying them. He explains how you can use Essence to improve processes leading to better organizational performance.

Ben Linders
on Jun 06, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agendashift Part I

In the book Agendashift, Mike Burrows describes an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation. He explores several lean and agile techniques that can be used in workshops and coaching to do lasting change.

Ben Linders
on May 16, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Shawn Callahan on Putting Stories to Work

The book Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan provides a process with a practical approach to master business storytelling; a leadership skill that helps to achieve results. It contains many stories that can help you to use storytelling for business communication and culture change.

Ben Linders
on May 10, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Dave Snowden on Leadership and Using Cynefin for Capturing Requirements

Dave Snowden gave a talk titled "Context is Everything" at the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise 2016 congress in Brussels, Belgium. InfoQ interviewed him about applying leadership models, the Cynefin model and how it can be used for capturing requirements, scaling agile, and sustainable change.

Ben Linders
on Apr 23, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Lean IT Field Guide

In the book The Lean IT Field Guide Mike Orzen and Tom Paider explain how to initiate, execute, and sustain a Lean IT transformation. InfoQ interviewed them about how lean can be seen as a learning system, why managers should have both technical and social skills, how to assure that changes will sustain, and establishing a culture of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.

Ben Linders
on Feb 24, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Exploring the Practice of Antifragility

In the book exploring the practice of antifragility Si Alhir and Donald E. Gould collected experiences with and perspectives on applying antifragility. InfoQ interviewed them about their view on applying antifragility in software development, how antifragility can help organizations to become more flexible and able to deal with change, and the results gained from applying antifragility.

Ben Linders
on Jan 04, 2016
Culture & Methods

Building Flat Organizations with Cross-functional Teams and Fewer Managers

Hierarchical organizations can't react to new market opportunities and changes fast enough, this impedes the company’s survival in the long run. An interview with Michael Dubakov on how agile transformations impact the role of managers, how to change the culture to increase agility, how to flatten an organization using cross-functional teams, and benefits from increasing agility.

Ben Linders
on Nov 30, 2015