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Q&A on the Book EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

In the book EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation, the authors explain why and how every business today needs to become a digital business with technology at the core. They explain six principles and a variety of practices that organisations can apply to survive and thrive on the creative edge where value is generated.

Shane Hastie Jim Highsmith Linda Luu David Robinson
on Jan 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book: The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era

The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits.

Ben Linders Jens Flanding Genevieve Grabman Sheila Cox
on Oct 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Impact: 21st Century Change Management, Behavioral Science, and the Future of Work

The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change.

Ben Linders Paul Gibbons
on Oct 11, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Engineering the Digital Transformation

The book Engineering the Digital Transformation by Gary Gruver provides a systematic approach for doing continuous improvement in organizations. He explores how we can leverage and modify engineering and manufacturing practices to address the unique characteristics and capabilities of software development.

Ben Linders Gary Gruver
on Sep 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys - and How to do it

Organizing around the value delivered to the customer requires maturity in the organization that needs to be built up over time. This article describes eight typical steps that companies are taking in order to mature towards the end goal of becoming a true enterprise agile organization, and explains how to move up the ladder.

Ole Jepsen Maria Ebro Andreasen
on Sep 19, 2019
DevOps

API Gateways and Service Meshes: Opening the Door to Application Modernisation

Modernising applications by decoupling them from the underlying infrastructure on which they are running can enable innovation, reduce costs, and improve security. An API Gateway can decouple applications from external consumers, and a service mesh decouples applications from internal consumers.

Daniel Bryant
on May 03, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book What’s Your Digital Business Model

The book What’s Your Digital Business Model, by Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner, explores how companies can reinvent themselves to become successful in the digital economy. It provides a research-based framework, coupled with assessments and examples, for executives to think about how to compete in the digital era and decide what’s needed to migrate towards a digital business model.

Ben Linders Stephanie L. Woerner
on Apr 14, 2019
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - February 2019

An overview of how the “cloud computing” and DevOps space is evolving in 2019 including updates on Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering, Service meshes and more.

Helen Beal Chris Swan Manuel Pais Daniel Bryant Steffen Opel
on Feb 21, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Digital Transformation at Scale

The book Digital Transformation at Scale by Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken and Tom Loosemore, explores what governmental and other large organizations can do to make a digital transformation happen. It is based on the authors’ experience designing and helping to deliver the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS).

Andrew Greenway Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Driving Digital Strategy

The book Driving Digital Strategy by Sunil Gupta provides guidelines and advice for executing fundamental digital transformations in companies, based on lessons from digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. To be successful you have to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization, argued Gupta.

Ben Linders Sunil Gupta
on Dec 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia

Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. “Project Myopia” explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important.

Allan Kelly Shane Hastie
on Sep 25, 2018
DevOps

DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Book Review and Q&A with Mirco Hering

InfoQ reviewed Mirco Hering's "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" book and reached out to the author for more insights on his experience, learnings and obstacles with transformations at large scale.

Manuel Pais Mirco Hering
on Sep 23, 2018