9. Digital
Apps
Online retail
The Web
Gig economy
Uberisation
GPS
Big Data
Drones
Analytics
AI
Mobile phones
Smart phones
Sensors Lidar
Deep Learning
Social media
Robotics Cloud
Social marketing
Crowd funding
Internet of Things
3D printing
Self driving cars
10. Agile makes Digital possible
• Rapid releases
• Test in the market “Lean Start Up”
• Technology teams working with business
12. Technology Change
Stage #1 – Do the same things faster
Stage #2 – Adopt new processes to increase benefit
Stage #3 – Innovation from process change
Repeat
23. He who learns fastest wins
“We understand that the only
competitive advantage the
company of the future will have
is its managers’ ability to learn
faster than their competitors.”
Arie de Geus, The Living Company 1988
24. Which is the fastest way to learn?
A. Planning
B. Doing
C. Other, please specify
29. Yesterday
1) Do the right thing
2) Do it right
Decide what the
right thing is
Build it the right
way
30. The Alignment Trap
Less
Effective
More
Effective
Highly aligned
Less aligned
‘Alignment trap’
11% companies
+13% IT spending
-14% 3 year sales
growth
‘Maintenance zone’
74% companies
Avg IT spending
-2% 3 year sales
growth
‘IT Enabled growth’
7% companies
-6% IT spending
+35% 3 year sales
growth
‘Well-oiled IT’
8% companies
-15% IT spending
+11% 3 year sales
growth
Source:Shpilberg,Berez,Puryear,Shah:
MITSloanReview,Fall2007
1
2
Doingtherightthings
Doing things right
33. Today
1) Do the right thing
Build a machine which can iterate
A learning machine
2) Do it right
Use the machine to iterate your way to the right
thing
35. Uniqlo HR documentation.
“UNIQLO’s Zen-in Keiei
philosophy, under which every
employee adopts the mindset
of a business manager,
regardless of his or her
position.”
36. Zen’in keiei for programmers #1
Self-organizing teams
Zen’in keiei for programmers #2
Think like you are business
37. Tim O’Reilly
MIT Sloan Management Review, March 2016
a large part of the work of [Google,
Amazon, Uber, etc.] … is performed by
software programs and algorithms. These
programs are the workers, and the human
software developers who create them are
their managers.
51. Agile is the process change that accompanies
digitisation
Digital businesses needs to be Agile
1. Plan less, release more
2. Build a machine that can iterate to learn
3. Everyone is a manager
4. #BizTech: One Team
Allan Kelly – allan@allankelly.net - @allankellynet
https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/