The pace of change and customer expectation is moving companies into cardiac arrest - what are the symptoms, what is the cure?
Our world and future business opportunities are continuously emerging through advances in design and technology, and wider social and economic change. Organisations must continually revisit the question, “What business are we in, and where should we be?”. This session will discuss how to embrace business model and product innovation by building a culture of continuous experimentation and learning, to transform your organisation to an adaptable, resilient Lean Enterprise.
Breaking Conway’s Law–or How to Work Differently and Not Ship Your Org Chart ...Rosenfeld Media
Tatyana Mamut: "Breaking Conway’s Law–or How to Work Differently and Not Ship Your Org Chart"
Enterprise Experience 2019 • June 3-4, 2019 • San Francisco, CA, USA
http://www.enterpriseexperience.net
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies without it behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Dropsuite is a global software platform that enables SMEs in over 100 countries easily backup, recover and protect their digital assets. What’s the secret to Dropsuite’s success so far? One of the main reasons for our rapid growth and credibility within the business backup sector can be attributed to the “engineering-first” culture we’ve fostered within our organization.
There's been much talk of DDD, its tactical and strategic approaches to design, its abstract notions. Yet some perceive it as empty words or gold plating, and are at a loss when it comes to its value proposition. This talk brings a unique and practical perspective on what it is like, this experience of building up models, fleshing out designs and growing a common understanding of the various problem domains at play, guided by language, expertise and boundaries.
SaaSFest 2015: Improve Your Retention With This One ChangeDavid Cancel
The key to sustainable growth comes down to aligning your internal and external incentives with your customers.
These slides show you how to align your companies incentives and increase customer retention and satisfaction. Lessons learned from Compete, Performable, Ghostery, HubSpot and now Driftt.
Video version: https://youtu.be/OY-HebjR-bA
Welcome to ConnectIn London | ConnectIn London 2016LinkedIn Europe
Alex Cresswell, Head of Global Accounts, EMEA kicked off our annual customer conference in London, ConnectIn discussing LinkedIn's vision and the importance of your employees connections.
Breaking Conway’s Law–or How to Work Differently and Not Ship Your Org Chart ...Rosenfeld Media
Tatyana Mamut: "Breaking Conway’s Law–or How to Work Differently and Not Ship Your Org Chart"
Enterprise Experience 2019 • June 3-4, 2019 • San Francisco, CA, USA
http://www.enterpriseexperience.net
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies without it behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Dropsuite is a global software platform that enables SMEs in over 100 countries easily backup, recover and protect their digital assets. What’s the secret to Dropsuite’s success so far? One of the main reasons for our rapid growth and credibility within the business backup sector can be attributed to the “engineering-first” culture we’ve fostered within our organization.
There's been much talk of DDD, its tactical and strategic approaches to design, its abstract notions. Yet some perceive it as empty words or gold plating, and are at a loss when it comes to its value proposition. This talk brings a unique and practical perspective on what it is like, this experience of building up models, fleshing out designs and growing a common understanding of the various problem domains at play, guided by language, expertise and boundaries.
SaaSFest 2015: Improve Your Retention With This One ChangeDavid Cancel
The key to sustainable growth comes down to aligning your internal and external incentives with your customers.
These slides show you how to align your companies incentives and increase customer retention and satisfaction. Lessons learned from Compete, Performable, Ghostery, HubSpot and now Driftt.
Video version: https://youtu.be/OY-HebjR-bA
Welcome to ConnectIn London | ConnectIn London 2016LinkedIn Europe
Alex Cresswell, Head of Global Accounts, EMEA kicked off our annual customer conference in London, ConnectIn discussing LinkedIn's vision and the importance of your employees connections.
Turn the next 12 days into a productivity makeover at work! These easy-to-implement tips, one for each day, are a perfect refresher.
Find out more about Redbooth at https://redbooth.com
Lean Startup Inside a Big Company (with a Shark Tank Twist), Stephen Liguori,...Lean Startup Co.
What happens when a small group of mavericks decide to launch an unauthorized version of Lean Startup inside a huge multinational firm like Cisco? Over 1,100 new organic-growth ideas, including a surprise Shark Tank-like ending. Presented by Steve Liguori, (Founder Liguori Innovation and former GE Exec Director of Global Innovation) with Alex Goryachev (Cisco Senior Director Innovation Strategy and Programs) and Oseas Ramirez Assad (Cisco Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement.)
Winning your company over to modern product thinking (ProductCamp Boston 2016)ProductCamp Boston
Let's face it, there is the world of executive-driven product prioritization, specifications, roadmaps in stone and requirements documentation. Then there's the right way to build products in this incredibly fast-paced world, where evidence-based decision-making is king, the user is at the center and your small team delivers working features in days instead of months. Which world would you like to spend more time in? In this session I'll reveal what I've learned the hard way helping bring Agile, Lean Startup and Design Thinking first to NPR, and since then to dozens of companies, helping organizations understand and then embrace the power and fun of modern product thinking. Expect to take away practical, proven ideas on how to get your company to try new product development methods and buy into thinking in new ways and ultimately enabling change.
About Keith Hopper
Keith Hopper consults with companies to rapidly bring the best ideas to market and avoid costly missteps. His experience working with over 60 startups helps him guide corporate teams to think differently, be more agile and create evidence-based product strategies. He is on the faculty at Olin College, a long-time Mentor for Techstars Boston, and a Founding Trustee of the innovative philanthropy The Awesome Foundation. Previously, he was at National Public Radio for eight years, where he ran Boston’s digital product team.
Building products that don't suck by Satish Kanwar of ShopfiyTechTO
Salish Kanwar of Jet Cooper and Shopify shares how to build great products by using an awesome product development process. Presented at Tech Toronto Meetup November 2016.
Check this presentation out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3mDWJcsk-FE
Want to see presentations like this live? Join our group at techtoronto.org.
The Difference Engine has relaunched with a new team, and renewed focus on helping companies improve their existing products, services, and customer experiences, and on helping companies identify opportunities for innovation and organizational change.
Research Rebooted: Market Research is Broken, How Lean Can Help Fix It #leand...The Difference Engine
The presentation from my talk at #LeanDayWest, September 17, 2013 in Portland, OR. Research Rebooted: Market Research is Broken, How Lean Can Help Fix It.
My talk from Lean Day London, hosted by Made by Many & Neo, March 25-26, 2014, on how Lean approaches to qualitative research make it more useful and scalable.
Driving UX, Design, & Development collaboratively through the EnterpriseLean Startup Co.
Amee Mungo, Digital Transformation at Capital One, leads a discussion on the Collaboration between UX, Design, and Development in Enterprise Organizations. With John Whalen (Founder, Brilliant Experience), Scott Childs (Experience Design Lead, Capital One).
Data informed design - UX Australia august 2015 Alastair Simpson
There’s a thing called “time to value” – it’s how long it takes a team to uncover and actualise value from a product. It’s a hard problem for most software products, because they aren’t architected and designed to solve the “time to value” problem. It’s usually an afterthought.
Building onboarding experiences that may or may not improve the customer experience can be both costly and time consuming, especially in enterprise software solutions – so how do you know that what you build will really add value?
Data, research or just building things in silos won’t solve the problem. Often too much data or research can make things worse by paralysing teams into inaction, or worse they just start building something, anything without understanding the impact it will have to the experience.
Working with large scale enterprise products with millions of customers, and navigating through long roadmaps can be a tough place to try and build fast growth into a product. It is hard to apply startup thinking when you need to care and value the experience that millions of customers have with your software each and everyday. But in order to survive and continually grow, you need to find a way.
Atlassian approached and solved this problem by leveraging a combination of growth hacking, user research, data analytics and A/B testing at scale to dramatically increase customer engagement with our products. I’ll describe the variety of approaches we started with and how we learned which ones to pursue and which ones to discard. The design and growth hacking teams worked together to pull off some pretty amazingly fast ways to modify and test variations of an enterprise product experience — without interfering with the product team. Finally, I’ll show how to design and centralise improved onboarding experiences that can be scaled across all of your products.
We often optimize our software for performance, but what also optimizing our development teams for happiness? Take a look at how the tools you choose for your development team can impact developer happiness, and learn how to keep your teams happier and more productive.
*The graph on slide 3 is fabricated data, because studies also show that people are more likely to believe statements accompanied by scientific data.*
"What's your day like?" "What do you do everyday?" "What's your job exactly, as startup CEO?" - These are questions I was frequently asked this year by both our new hires, startup founders I had the privilege to mentor through various programs, and during interviews.
If I was asked this question a couple years ago, my answer would definitely be "everything" - same as any early stage startup CEO. But as of 2021, our team at Arincare almost doubled in size, now serving 2,500+ users, and growing 3X revenue, to get there my job has changed a lot. So I think it's good to stop and give it some thoughts about my role and responsibilities as CEO and how it has evolved over the year - all in a deck. Hope it can benefit a larger audience, or at least I can use it to give a clearer answer to our new hires. :)
"How Opinary grew from a side-project to 70 million users" by Cornelius Frey,...TheFamily
Opinary started from a deep frustration: the difficultly to gauge public opinions on current issues online. So Cornelius Frey and his co-founders built embedded tools for publishers to measure just that. It was a hit and they started making revenues from an early point. Today, Opinary is used by millions of users in the newsrooms of +60 publishers in Germany, UK, and the US. Starting in 2013 as a bootstrapped side-project, the startup just closed a €3M series A.
In this presentation, Cornelius explains how bootstrapping allowed him to build a project out of passion, giving him the freedom to make the mistakes & choices he did. He shares how you can achieve financial independence fast if you focus on the right things ;)
Content Chaos: Building Brand Through Content ExperimentsRoss Simmonds
Ross Simmonds delivered this presentation at MozCon 2016 to share the value and ideal approach to leveraging content experimentation to drive results. From Reddit to Slideshare, these slides are meant to help understand how you can leverage the Build, Ship, Learn & Decide model to drive meaningful results in your content experiments.
Applying Lean in Intercultural Environments: Limitations and Opportunities, M...Lean Startup Co.
Melinda Jacobs, co-founder of Lucent Sky, gathers sales and product feedback from customers on three continents. She’ll describe the impact cultural customs and norms have on how feedback and customer development take place, with a focus on how to adapt Lean methodologies into diverse cultural settings.
Turn the next 12 days into a productivity makeover at work! These easy-to-implement tips, one for each day, are a perfect refresher.
Find out more about Redbooth at https://redbooth.com
Lean Startup Inside a Big Company (with a Shark Tank Twist), Stephen Liguori,...Lean Startup Co.
What happens when a small group of mavericks decide to launch an unauthorized version of Lean Startup inside a huge multinational firm like Cisco? Over 1,100 new organic-growth ideas, including a surprise Shark Tank-like ending. Presented by Steve Liguori, (Founder Liguori Innovation and former GE Exec Director of Global Innovation) with Alex Goryachev (Cisco Senior Director Innovation Strategy and Programs) and Oseas Ramirez Assad (Cisco Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement.)
Winning your company over to modern product thinking (ProductCamp Boston 2016)ProductCamp Boston
Let's face it, there is the world of executive-driven product prioritization, specifications, roadmaps in stone and requirements documentation. Then there's the right way to build products in this incredibly fast-paced world, where evidence-based decision-making is king, the user is at the center and your small team delivers working features in days instead of months. Which world would you like to spend more time in? In this session I'll reveal what I've learned the hard way helping bring Agile, Lean Startup and Design Thinking first to NPR, and since then to dozens of companies, helping organizations understand and then embrace the power and fun of modern product thinking. Expect to take away practical, proven ideas on how to get your company to try new product development methods and buy into thinking in new ways and ultimately enabling change.
About Keith Hopper
Keith Hopper consults with companies to rapidly bring the best ideas to market and avoid costly missteps. His experience working with over 60 startups helps him guide corporate teams to think differently, be more agile and create evidence-based product strategies. He is on the faculty at Olin College, a long-time Mentor for Techstars Boston, and a Founding Trustee of the innovative philanthropy The Awesome Foundation. Previously, he was at National Public Radio for eight years, where he ran Boston’s digital product team.
Building products that don't suck by Satish Kanwar of ShopfiyTechTO
Salish Kanwar of Jet Cooper and Shopify shares how to build great products by using an awesome product development process. Presented at Tech Toronto Meetup November 2016.
Check this presentation out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3mDWJcsk-FE
Want to see presentations like this live? Join our group at techtoronto.org.
The Difference Engine has relaunched with a new team, and renewed focus on helping companies improve their existing products, services, and customer experiences, and on helping companies identify opportunities for innovation and organizational change.
Research Rebooted: Market Research is Broken, How Lean Can Help Fix It #leand...The Difference Engine
The presentation from my talk at #LeanDayWest, September 17, 2013 in Portland, OR. Research Rebooted: Market Research is Broken, How Lean Can Help Fix It.
My talk from Lean Day London, hosted by Made by Many & Neo, March 25-26, 2014, on how Lean approaches to qualitative research make it more useful and scalable.
Driving UX, Design, & Development collaboratively through the EnterpriseLean Startup Co.
Amee Mungo, Digital Transformation at Capital One, leads a discussion on the Collaboration between UX, Design, and Development in Enterprise Organizations. With John Whalen (Founder, Brilliant Experience), Scott Childs (Experience Design Lead, Capital One).
Data informed design - UX Australia august 2015 Alastair Simpson
There’s a thing called “time to value” – it’s how long it takes a team to uncover and actualise value from a product. It’s a hard problem for most software products, because they aren’t architected and designed to solve the “time to value” problem. It’s usually an afterthought.
Building onboarding experiences that may or may not improve the customer experience can be both costly and time consuming, especially in enterprise software solutions – so how do you know that what you build will really add value?
Data, research or just building things in silos won’t solve the problem. Often too much data or research can make things worse by paralysing teams into inaction, or worse they just start building something, anything without understanding the impact it will have to the experience.
Working with large scale enterprise products with millions of customers, and navigating through long roadmaps can be a tough place to try and build fast growth into a product. It is hard to apply startup thinking when you need to care and value the experience that millions of customers have with your software each and everyday. But in order to survive and continually grow, you need to find a way.
Atlassian approached and solved this problem by leveraging a combination of growth hacking, user research, data analytics and A/B testing at scale to dramatically increase customer engagement with our products. I’ll describe the variety of approaches we started with and how we learned which ones to pursue and which ones to discard. The design and growth hacking teams worked together to pull off some pretty amazingly fast ways to modify and test variations of an enterprise product experience — without interfering with the product team. Finally, I’ll show how to design and centralise improved onboarding experiences that can be scaled across all of your products.
We often optimize our software for performance, but what also optimizing our development teams for happiness? Take a look at how the tools you choose for your development team can impact developer happiness, and learn how to keep your teams happier and more productive.
*The graph on slide 3 is fabricated data, because studies also show that people are more likely to believe statements accompanied by scientific data.*
"What's your day like?" "What do you do everyday?" "What's your job exactly, as startup CEO?" - These are questions I was frequently asked this year by both our new hires, startup founders I had the privilege to mentor through various programs, and during interviews.
If I was asked this question a couple years ago, my answer would definitely be "everything" - same as any early stage startup CEO. But as of 2021, our team at Arincare almost doubled in size, now serving 2,500+ users, and growing 3X revenue, to get there my job has changed a lot. So I think it's good to stop and give it some thoughts about my role and responsibilities as CEO and how it has evolved over the year - all in a deck. Hope it can benefit a larger audience, or at least I can use it to give a clearer answer to our new hires. :)
"How Opinary grew from a side-project to 70 million users" by Cornelius Frey,...TheFamily
Opinary started from a deep frustration: the difficultly to gauge public opinions on current issues online. So Cornelius Frey and his co-founders built embedded tools for publishers to measure just that. It was a hit and they started making revenues from an early point. Today, Opinary is used by millions of users in the newsrooms of +60 publishers in Germany, UK, and the US. Starting in 2013 as a bootstrapped side-project, the startup just closed a €3M series A.
In this presentation, Cornelius explains how bootstrapping allowed him to build a project out of passion, giving him the freedom to make the mistakes & choices he did. He shares how you can achieve financial independence fast if you focus on the right things ;)
Content Chaos: Building Brand Through Content ExperimentsRoss Simmonds
Ross Simmonds delivered this presentation at MozCon 2016 to share the value and ideal approach to leveraging content experimentation to drive results. From Reddit to Slideshare, these slides are meant to help understand how you can leverage the Build, Ship, Learn & Decide model to drive meaningful results in your content experiments.
Applying Lean in Intercultural Environments: Limitations and Opportunities, M...Lean Startup Co.
Melinda Jacobs, co-founder of Lucent Sky, gathers sales and product feedback from customers on three continents. She’ll describe the impact cultural customs and norms have on how feedback and customer development take place, with a focus on how to adapt Lean methodologies into diverse cultural settings.
Great challenges accompany social progress
and change. It seems like it was only yesterday that managers were struggling with how to attract and retain members of Generation X. Today, managers need to concern themselves with the challenges of the “Post-80’s” group:Generation-Y (Gen-Y).
Closing the Knowledge Divide: How to Build the Business of the FutureKyle Lacy
Presentation given on April 25th to TrueU in Indianapolis, IN. This is a new presentation focused on how to close the knowledge divide through speed, access and analytics and what it takes to build the business of the future.
Sustainability is not a concept; it’s a strategic imperative. To be competitive sustainability must be woven throughout your business beginning with your strategy, leveraging your human resources and optimizing your business processes. Sustainability = profitability.
Keynote - Thomson Reuters Synergy 2015 Conference
In this inspirational keynote, Tom will show practitioners how to explore new value-added services and position their practices for success in a rapidly changing world. He'll discuss the major "shift change" and the trends shaping business today, and give participants a framework to provide more proactive services and strategic advice—and a plan to get started.
Tom Hood (Maryland Association of CPAs, Inc.)—Tom is passionate about three areas: leadership, learning, and technology. His recognition and awards reflect his leadership in helping CPAs "shape their future" through his work as the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the Business Learning Institute, a center for the development of leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration skills for CPAs. In 2013, Accounting Today said about Tom, "If there is a conversation about the future of the profession, you're bound to hear Hood's name mentioned as one of the people leading the way. Hood is doing as much as anyone—and more than most- to lead public accounting forward."
CPA Practice Advisor inducted Tom into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2015. He was named the fourth most influential leader in Accounting Today’s 2014 list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting (his tenth time on the list). LinkedIn recruited Tom as one of their Top 150 Influencers, and he was named to the Top 25 Influencers in Learning by HR Examiner.
from talk to walk’Capita Talent Consulting combines its
resourcing and diversity expertise to provide practical recommendations on the steps to take and the
obstacles to overcome in the pursuit of more diverse candidate pools and resulting hires (internally
and externally). Themes include: • Addressing the challenge of unconscious bias – yours, agencies and
hiring managers • Reconciling speed vs. diversity of hires and managing stakeholder expectations • The
mutual benefits of monitoring and reporting diversity of outcomes • How more inclusive on-boarding can
improve and embed results
Will your firm thrive or just survive? Anticipation - The critical competency...Tom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
Today, the world of professional education, and accordingly the accounting profession, is migrating toward a competencies-based learning approach. But what are the most critical competencies for practitioners and firms to thrive in today’s ever changing, fast paced business environment?
Research from the Business Learning Institute identified the Top 5 Competencies for CPAs, accounting and financial professionals as:
1. Strategic & Critical Thinking
2. Communication
3. Anticipating and serving evolving needs
4. Inspiring and motivating others
5. Collaboration and mobilizing consensus
In addition, research from CPA.COM shows that only 8% of CPAs are future ready. Future Ready is the Is the capacity to be ANTICIPATORY (aware, predictive and adaptive) of emerging technology and trends in business, demographics, and the social environment impacting your organization and industry.
Together this group of skills and competencies have been researched with a leading global futurist who has put together an innovative learning system, the Anticipatory Organization: Accounting and Finance Edition which is being used to transform firm cultures to build and enhance proactive business advisor skills.
Most of us wish we had the power to predict future trends, and would benefit by learning tactics to do so. Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts and the featured keynoter speaker at this year’s DCPA16. He is globally recognized for his exceptional 30+ year record of accurately predicting how technological, social, and business forces converge to create untapped opportunities.
Joey Havens, Executive Partner at Horne, LLP (A top 50 CPA Firm) discusses how he has used the Anticipatory Organization as a foundational learning system throughout his firm. He is requiring his whole firm of 400+ professionals to take this and running collaboration sessions by practice areas to create group learning and a shared language around anticipatory thinking that is being applied inside the firm and outside with clients.
This presentation is from the July 20th, 2016 webcast by CPA.COM. CPA.com President and CEO, Erik Asgeirsson as he discusses the critical Anticipatory competency with Daniel Burrus, HORNE LLP executive partner Joey Havens and the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the Business Learning Institute, Tom Hood.
For more information http://www.blionline.org/ao
You will learn:
Why anticipation is the critical competency for today's accounting and finance professionals
The difference between hard trends and soft trends
Why it is important to identify trend types
Use cases of how these skills are being used in the profession
How this learning system can be used as a foundational skill set to help CPAs and accounting professionals be more proactive business advisors.
South Florida HDI Event IT Industry Awards Celebration January 10, 2013Eddie Vidal
The Analyst of the Year and Desktop Support Technician of the Year awards are an amazing opportunity and honor for our chapter and for the eventual winner who will represent the South Florida HDI chapter. The winners will also compete at the HDI Southeast regional level.
We tend to think of “innovation” in terms of new technology – gadgets, hardware, new apps, and software. But true innovation more often comes in the form of new business models, workflows, service offerings, and office and staffing patterns. This session will center on those innovations that are significantly impacting our firms and our clients. You never know where innovation might sprout!
This session was produced for the DCPA15 Conference in Las Vegas.
Recent research says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency--how to accurately anticipate the future. The key to success in this fast-changing environment is to learn how to move from being reactive to proactive and flip from crisis manager to an opportunity manager. Tom will show how to explore new value added services and position their practices for success in a rapidly changing world.
Will Your Firm Thrive or Just Survive? The Critical Competency for Today’s Pr...CPA.com
Today, the world of professional education, and accordingly the accounting profession, is migrating toward a competencies-based learning approach. But what are the most critical competencies for practitioners and firms to thrive in today’s ever changing, fast paced business environment?
Most of us wish we had the prowess for predicting future trends, but others have tried and true competencies in this area. Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts and the featured keynoter speaker at this year’s DCPA16. He is globally recognized for his exceptional 30+ year record of accurately predicting how technological, social, and business forces converge to create untapped opportunities.
Join CPA.com president and CEO, Erik Asgeirsson as he discusses the critical Anticipatory competency with Daniel Burrus, Horne LLP CEO Joey Havens and the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs, Tom Hood. This webinar will cover:
· The difference between hard trends and soft trends
· Why it is important to identify trend types
· Use cases of how these skills are being used in the profession
Our world and future business opportunities are continuously emerging through advances in design and technology, and wider social and economic change. Organisations must continually revisit the question, “Which business are we in, and where should we be?.” This session discusses the learnings from Barry’s soon-to-be released book 'Lean Enterprise'.
Barry joined ThoughtWorks in the UK after working on several startups and brought this experience to the enterprise where he explores the intersection of business model innovation, product development and organisational culture. This experience has led him to the development of his forthcoming book - suitably named ‘Lean Enterprise.
Gary specialises in helping executives, teams and individuals to adapt and improve the flow of value using lean and agile principles. He brings a strong emphasis on facilitating organisational change, and the role of management and leadership in an agile world.
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Design System as a Product - Maria Elena Duenias, Esther Butcher
Design systems are a great example where web development and design meet. You can find innumerable resources on the internet, books and conferences on how to build them, and how they are exactly what your organization needs. But, building one requires a lot more than following a recipe. In this talk we are going to discuss how to build a design system as an internal product, and how it evolves to become what the users need.
Designers, Developers and Dogs: Finding the magic balance between product and tech - Charlotte Vorbeck, ShareNow and Sahil Bajaj
How can an agile delivery team become a successful product team? When does collaboration between product and tech succeed and when not? Why do people in some teams inspire each other while others in the same environment don't speak the same language? In this talk we want to share our learnings and experiences from rebuilding an internal tool for customer support at ShareNow. What could have been just another boring rewrite surprisingly became one of our best experiences in collaboration. We will look at how a joint discovery phase helped us to come up with a shared vision, how a better team setup enabled us to do the necessary work, how focusing on the customer kept us aligned during our journey, and also how we built upon existing collaborative techniques to achieve this new level of cooperation and trust.
During this presentation, Ward Coessens, ThoughtWorks' Consultant will share best practice insights from the Daimler partnership, helping the automotive group on their cloud innovation journey.
How to create more business impact with flexible teams - Jan Hegewald, Zalando & Rebekka Beels, Zalando
Usually, Software Engineering teams are organized around a fixed set of components which they develop further and maintain. Such component teams gain a high level of expert knowledge about their services. However, with agile product development, it often is difficult to implement the most important initiatives with such teams. This leads to a situation where the teams do not work on the most relevant business topics but on those for the respective team. At Zalando, we introduced a new model where we shape teams flexibly around business goals to create the highest impact. How we organize these teams and which challenges especially for the software quality need to be addressed, will be explored in this talk.
Amazon’s Culture of Innovation & The Working Backwards session
Working Backwards; leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. Where do you begin? By focusing on the customer.
During this webinar, Amazon will discuss key innovation principles which have been instrumental in their continued success and their Working Backwards approach.
Dual-Track Agile for Discovery & Development - Adriana Katrandzhieva
The talk will focus on one of the ways teams can ensure continuous delivery and design in their projects. The so-called ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of discovery and development throughout the product design and delivery process. These continually feedback into each other informing new hypothesis that can be tested in order to be proven/disproven. This model is not always easy to implement out of the box and so I will share my own experiences in applying it in practice - what worked, what didn't and how the model can be adjusted to fit different teams and organisational environments.
Designing the Developer Experience - Tanja Bach, Jacob Bo Tiedemann
Working with software that some other people have built, is not only daily business for private and business users but also for developers. Just like any other product, a product for developers needs to solve their problems and focus on the right jobs-to-be-done in order to be successfully adopted by the developer community. In this talk, we will explain why the developer experience matters not only to developers but also to the business. We will share our learnings and real-world examples of how we created a developer experience for a cloud infrastructure product and an IoT platform that the developers love.
When we design together - Sabrina Mach, Ammara Gafoor and James Emmott
From three distinct perspectives, this talk will contend that design is an activity undertaken by everyone in a software development team. It occurs throughout the process of delivery — not only at the beginning or the end — and it is a powerful instrument for learning about and adapting to the problems our work seeks to solve, which is a shared responsibility. Making the best use of our multidisciplinary expertise in the activity of design requires forms of collaboration that are too often disrupted by the role-based silos that keep us separated and weaken the valuable contribution our diverse approaches could make to our collective efforts. If you care about accelerating time to market, improving customer experience, or building happy and productive teams, you will want to know why and how it matters that we believe ‘design is in everything that we do’.
Hardware is hard(er): designing for distributed user experiences in IoT - Claire Rowland, www.clairerowland.com
Designing connected devices and hardware-enabled services is significantly more complex than pure software. There are more devices on which code can run, connectivity and data sharing patterns to consider, and often multiple and varied touchpoints for users to interact with. Pulling this all together into a coherent experience involves strong collaboration between design and engineering, and a systems thinking approach to UX. In this talk, we’ll introduce what designers need to know about the tech, what engineers need to know about UX for IoT, and how to facilitate the whole-collaboration needed to create great products.
www.clairerowland.com
Customer-centric innovation enabled by cloudThoughtworks
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Find out how to validate hypotheses quickly using feedback that comes from a (large enough) number of actual users interacting with your product. In this talk, we will show you the technical foundations, research techniques and organisational setup that we have used successfully on large-scale products. These will save you development time, enable you to go live with confidence, make decisions based on real behaviour instead of best guesses, and solve the actual problems your users are facing.
As a tech leader at ThoughtWorks, a large part of my job involves recommending practices to our clients so they can build and deliver good quality software faster. In doing so repeatedly for many clients I have created a toolkit that contains practical advice from being on the ground. This is what we do, we know it works. When Julius Caesar entered Rome with his army by crossing the river Rubicon, he did something that couldn’t be undone ever again. In your journey as a leader, avoid mistakes that are difficult to correct later. Here are a set of practices that you want to adopt as soon as possible.
Handling error conditions is a core part of the software we write. However, we often treat it as a second class citizen, obscuring our intent through abuse of null values and exceptions that make our code hard to understand and maintain. In the functional programming community, it is common to use datatypes such as Option, Either or Validated to make our intentions explicit when dealing with errors. We can leverage the compiler to verify that we are handling them instead of hoping for the best at runtime. This results in code that is clearer, without hidden path flows. We’ll show how we have been doing this in Kotlin, with the help of the Arrow library.
Mutation testing in software development surfaced in academia during the 70's and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity as a legitimate tool in your testing arsenal. In this session we review the conventional testing pyramid, modern approaches to testing software and look at how mutation testing can help fill in those blind spots.
The continued adoption of containers for deployments has introduced a new path for security issues. In this talk, we will cover the most common areas of vulnerabilities, the challenges in securing your containers, some good practices to help overcome these issues and how to run container security scanning as part of your deployment pipeline.
Mainframes handle 30 billion business transactions each day and 87% of all credit card transactions*, they are not traditionally associated with flexible, fail-fast development approaches. Can we bring the practices of agile, CI/CD and fully automated deployments to applications running on a mainframe? During our talk, we'll tell you a story about test automation; redefining the smallest testable unit of a program. And we'll discuss our learnings from introducing continuous integration and agile practices to the world of insurance and mainframes.
*9 Mainframe statistics that may surprise you
ThoughtWorks' Lucy Kurian, James Lewis & Kief Morris discuss tech trends in our latest Technology Radar, covering techniques, platforms, tools, languages and frameworks.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with Parameters
Rewiring Your Organization for Customer Engagement
1. REWIRING YOUR ORGANIZATION
FOR CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
Joanne Molesky & Barry O’Reilly
@jemolesky #LeanEnterprise @barryoreilly
2. ADAPTING TO CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS
Maximum value is delivered
when people work together
Technology is a strategic
capability
3. FOCUS ON YOUR CUSTOMERS
What matters to
our customers?
Who are our
customers?
4.
5. WHY IS THIS SO HARD?
The main obstacles to improved business
responsiveness are slow decision-
making, conflicting departmental goals
and priorities, risk-averse cultures and
silo-based information.
Economist Intelligence Unit:
“Organisational agility: How business can survive and thrive in turbulent times”
6. PEOPLE MAKE IT HAPPEN
• Provide Leadership
• Hire and retain the right people
• Create a learning environment
• Foster good decision making by
creating visibility and
transparency
15. ● Go and See the work
● Map out end to end flow of value
WHAT CAN I DO TOMORROW?
Customer Cash
16. ● Go and See the work
● Map out end to end flow of value
● Implement and amplify feedback loops
WHAT CAN I DO TOMORROW?
17. MAKE IT YOUR OWN
http://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/articles/scientific_method/
Make
Observations
Formulate
Hypothesis
Design
Experiment
Measure
Outcomes
Adjust based
on Learning