Stuck in Software?
Grow systems leadership. Deliver transformation.
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Get Unstuck
We help systems leaders and learning-driven teams … transform what matters.
Are you stuck in software that no longer meets your evolving needs? Perhaps you’ve attempted a “digital transformation”. You’ve adopted microservices, Agile, DevOps, event streams, cloud native platforms, infrastructure as code … and yet, you haven’t transformed anything.
Do teams struggle to work across technological boundaries? The goal is to create dynamic, learning teams that drive innovation, yet decisions get constantly stuck in the mud.
You’ve hit the iceberg that sinks most transformations: We don’t think in systems.
We help you avoid that iceberg. We approach transformation from the inside out, shifting the way teams think, communicate and organize to match the system you want to build.
We also dive deep into the tech, translating strategy into technology decisions that actually transform. We encourage smart adoption of modern tools.
We can partner with you to facilitate change, in roles like systems architect or enterprise (systems) architect, program or engineering lead, Agile coach, DevOps consultant … whatever works in your circumstance. Together, we create holistic, iterative systems transformation and learning teams that can carry you into the future.
Our real world experiences, with The Economist, The Wikimedia Foundation, Pfizer, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Global Strategy Group and others have taught us hard lessons. We can help you discover what works for you. We also teach others through keynotes and workshops around the world. Our mission is helping paradigm shifters lead in the right direction
01.
Discover
Find the leverage points where a small change can have big impact.
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Prioritize
Identify the changes that unlock competitive advantage.
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Strategy
Deliver technology systems that meet your highest-value needs.
04.
Model
Collaborative approaches to understanding your needs.
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Learning teams
Generate empowered, trustworthy activity that leads in the right direction.
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Iterative action
Decide to do the right thing at the right time in the right order. In systems, this is hard!
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Workflows
Design the ways people change and grow the system.
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Architecture
Build technology that scales with you by designing relationships, not just features.
Real World Experience
Design a Create Once, Publish Everywhere editing system to replace the legacy print and digital software.
The Economist
Design a system to share knowledge from software to nearly-infinite people, products and platforms.
The Wikimedia Foundation
Design a digital communication and engagement experience to replace a website.
Global Strategy Group
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How We Think
Featured Content
Tools for thinking well together when creating systems.
Defining Strategic Thinking
The value of every decision we make depends on the context in which we make it. Frodo’s journey to destroy the ring is meaningful inside the context of Middle Earth. Otherwise, he’s a short, hairy guy with apocalyptic hallucinations.
Building Trust
In this podcast episode, Diana and Andrei talk about partnering with people who are good at covering your blind spots, the process of structuring change and the essential quality called trust.
Why You Need Systemic Reasoning
We are conditioned to think linearly. Valuable things (like software) have emerged from linear thinking. The challenge is that linear thinking is also, assuredly, our biggest blocker when we are systems building.
The Hard Skills?
In the world of “digital transformation”, software is becoming systems. Unfortunately, we don’t think in systems. IT professionals need an emerging set of systems leadership skills.
A technology system is only as strong as the conceptual integrity that binds it.
