EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
Jim Highsmith, Executive Consultant at ThoughtWorks, Inc, has over 50 years of management, consulting, development, and storytelling expertise. For more than 20 years, he has been a leader in the agile movement, coauthoring the Agile Manifesto, cofounding The Agile Alliance, and authoring the world-renowned books Adaptive Leadership and Agile Project Management.
Linda Luu is a ThoughtWorks, Inc. principal product and portfolio consultant with over 15 years of experience in product innovation, customer-centered design, and organizational transformation. Linda has worked with a variety of clients around the world to build digital organizations that can sense and respond to changing customer and business needs. She is skilled in Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking practices.
David Robinson is a ThoughtWorks, Inc. principle consultant with over 30 years of expertise in information technology management, organizational transformation, and technology consulting.
Maximum invention occurs at the nexus of chaos: the tumultuous, dangerous, and unpredictable boundary between randomness and structure. Working there is unpleasant, yet it is where organizations "create the future." EDGE is a set of tools for digital transformation that are rapid, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to leveraging this operating paradigm for innovation.
Jim Highsmith is a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto and one of the world's leading agile pioneers. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from extensive on-the-ground experience that adopting isolated agile approaches or traditional portfolio management is insufficient for long-term digital transformation. This difficult, necessary effort entails altering culture and thinking, as well as going beyond overhauling the IT department.
In the face of market uncertainty, EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continuous value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and improved risk mitigation. EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation teaches leaders how to apply the game-changing EDGE strategy to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunity.
- Create an organization that can adjust quickly enough to succeed.
- Remove redundant governance processes, outmoded "command and control" leadership styles, and long budgeting/planning cycles.
- Improve collaboration when significant, rapid reactions are required.
- Optimize investment allocation and monitoring on a continuous basis based on your vision and goals.
Author: David Robinson, Linda Luu and Jim Highsmith
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/EDGE-Value-Driven-Transformation-Jim-Highsmith/dp/0135263077/
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