For a discussion this week about January checkpoints and business reviews, I looked up the meaning of the word “resolution” in the dictionary. I was surprised to see some of the answers.
All companies these days are Tech companies in one way or another
I’m of the belief that all companies these days are Tech companies in one way or another. The lines have blurred. Most companies now use technology so heavily to do their everyday business that they are becoming Tech companies.
You learn the most from people who are unlike you
To me this is the point of drawing together a team from all walks of life. Though I think we are more than our tendencies and we can learn other ways of thinking and doing… this is promoted by bringing together people with different strengths. The whole team benefits.
What’s the best way to retire a product?
It is so easy these days to just leave things online that are dated and unattended. Yet that can also leave a negative impression by nature of their staleness. Have you closed down things that are not serving you anymore – or you are no longer servicing?
In an Agile world, how do you handle balancing being open to co-creation and owning IP?
One of the tenets of the Agile Manifesto is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”. I do believe this can be a good example of the greyness in the final statement “That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.” That you do need to address the issue of who owns what at some point and get that in writing.
Design thinking breathes life into strategic planning
Too often strategic planning is something people do periodically. They focus on making plans and then put them away in drawers. Design thinking, with its use of observable experimentation and bias to action, takes them out of the drawer and turns them into initiatives instead of just plans.
