Agility, and Highly reliable organisations.

1. The Hedgehog and the Fox…and the Hacker.
Justin Arbuckle – VP EMEA, Chief Enterprise Architect,
CHEF
@dromologue / JA@chef.io

2. "The fox knows many
things, but the hedgehog
knows one big thing.”
Archilocus

3. …For there exists a great
chasm between those, on
one side, who relate
everything to a single central
vision …and, on the other
side, those who pursue many
ends, … their thought is
scattered or diffused…
without … seeking to fit them
into [an all-embracing inner
vision].
Isiah Berlin

4. Those who built the good-to-
great companies were, to one
degree or another, hedgehogs.
They used their hedgehog
nature to drive toward what we
came to call a Hedgehog
Concept for their companies.
Those who led the comparison
companies tended to be foxes,
never gaining the clarifying
advantage of a Hedgehog
Concept, being instead
scattered, diffused, and

5. On average, companies that are resilient and can
adjust to changing circumstances tend on average to
outperform less flexible companies. Yes, a few
hedgehogs will turn out to be spectacularly successful,
but Hedghogs will also fail in large numbers.
Phil Rosenzweig

6. Antifragile – Benefits from volatility
in a nonlinear manner
Fragile – Is harmed by volatility in a
nonlinear manner
Robust – Neither fragile nor antifragile
Per Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7. QUALITY /
RELIABILITY /
COMPLIANCE
INNOVATION
Fragile
Anti-Fragile

8. Software is eating the world.
Mark Andreessen
The Velocity Hedgehog

9. Attributes of High Reliability Organisations
1. Track small failures
2. Resist oversimplification
3. Sensitive to operations
4. Committed to resilience
5. Defer to expertise
Karl Weick

10. Build
Run Test
Deploy
Consistency
VelocityScale
CODE &
AUTOMATION
AUTOMATION
& CODE
COMPLIANCE

11. 1. PEOPLE - Technology outpaces regulation.
2. PICK - Compliance can't wait
3. PLATFORM - Velocity matters.
4. PROOF- It has to be testable
5. PROCESS - Compliance without automation is
fiction
6. PARADIGM - Two speed IT must become high
speed IT.
The Compliance Fox

12. Let Velocity be your hedgehog.
& Compliance be your Fox.