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(8) Systematic Management
This is the 8th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

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(7) From Rule of Thumb to Systematic Management
This is the 7th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

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Codified Ways of Working
An integrated, connected tooling ecosystem is needed to support strategy to execution I'll be honest. I've never been a big fan of tools....


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OKRs: a checklist
How good are your OKRs? Here is a set of questions to ask yourself to check to see how good your OKRs are. Overall: ☑️ Who is the...

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Biggest enabler to flow of value – Value Streams
One of the biggest blockers to flow of value in large organisations is from teams delivering and operating in functional silos. I have...

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Quarterly Cadence – a ninja move to create transparency, flow and focus
"Help! I don't know what work my team is working on. I can't see it in one place. I don't know who is working on what? My team is telling...

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Strategy Execution: 5 Themes From Industry Leaders
At Sooner Safer Happier we recently hosted cross-industry discussions between five global brands that are leaders in banking, aerospace,...

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Strategy definition – how might we write our strategic choices in a way that we can execute? Outcomes and key results.
When we start to think about the shift from output to outcome, what we are really trying to drive is an unlock of value from initiatives,...

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BVSSH Book Club - Project to Product by Mik Kersten
The 1-hr AMA session that we held with Mik Kersten flew by. We spoke about all-things-product, flow, value streams, tech debt, metrics...


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What is BVSSH?
September 2015 was the last time that seven of the top ten firms by market value were not information technology firms. Fast forward...
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