In this keynote I want to attempt to broaden our horizon to a more holistic one. So, open your mind and explore with me our societal responsibility within the agile community and beyond.
Jutta EcksteinCoach, Consultant, Speaker, Author at independent
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Is Trust Cheaper?
◼ Background:
– Traditional travel expense procedures are burdensome and
assume people can’t be trusted.
◼ Hypothesis:
– Such procedures cost more than they save and are
demoralizing.
◼ Experiment:
– Pre-survey and audit. Try for three months in a few units
with other units as controls. Post-survey and audit.
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How can we include customer feedback in each
board meeting?
◼ Background:
– Not every decision by the board is in the best interest of the
customer.
◼ Hypothesis:
– If a board checks its proposed decisions before finalizing it,
by asking, “How will our customers be impacted by the
decision?” the quality of its decisions will improve.
◼ Experiment:
– Before formally adopting a proposal, the board meeting
facilitator asks each person on the possible impact for the
customers. If there are any doubts about the positive impact
for the customer, the decision will be improved.
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Society is demanding that companies, both public
and private, serve a social purpose, …
To prosper over time, every company must not only
deliver financial performance, but also show how it
makes a positive contribution to society.
Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock,
January 2018 open letter to CEOs.
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It is time for the computing community to face up
to computing’s growing environmental impact
– and take responsibility for it!
Andrew A. Chien, Editor-in-Chief of the CACM
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“No single entity, (or sector) no matter how large
or powerful, can solve the complex problems in
our current systems.
Rather, the key to our success lies in optimizing
the activities, relationships, and interactions
among all the parts of the system.”
Srik Gopal, & Tiffany Clarke
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Transparency & Societal Awareness
◼ Collects & publishes research data – also to competitors –
about climate change since the 70’s.
◼ They’re convinced that
– …only transparency allows them to learn from others &
to improve the data.
– …this increases the general societal awareness of
climate change & their own resilience.