War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age

The three principles on the outside loop—outcome-based strategy, value-based prioritization, and lightweight planning and governance— focus on answering the “how should we invest” question. The inner loop principles—autonomous teams; adaptive, learning culture; and self-sufficient, collaborative decisions—speak to working together and adapting fast

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Use the following principles for getting started:14 Ensure you have a clearly defined direction The direction should succinctly express the business or describe organizational outcomes you wish to achieve in measurable terms, even if they look like an unachievable ideal. Most importantly, it should inspire everyone in the organization. Think of HP

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Can your organization adapt fast enough? This is a fundamental question today, for every organization, every enterprise. But it’s not enough to have agile delivery teams or continuous delivery: To be “fast enough,” your enterprise must have a responsive technology platform, an experimental and learning culture, and an executive team dedicated to fi

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Lean startup methodologies, as defined by Steve Blank and Eric Ries, are also an alternative to waterfall-like approaches to business planning. There are simply too many untested assumptions in product development and customer discovery to have a reasonable prediction of features, including customer ability and willingness to pay, readiness of supp

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