Paul Whiteside - Thought Leadership

How to Innovate

Innovation is essential to stay relevant and to grow your business. The successful surfacing of new ideas is crucial to being able to improve ways of working, to bring new and improved products and services to market, increase efficiency and, most importantly, to give new value to customers.

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Agile buildability

The concept of 'buildability' is one where Engineers and Architects work together and pay close attention to the design from the perspective of those who will manufacture parts, install components and carry out construction works. There is much benefit in applying this approach to technology.

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What is DevOps and why should I care?

DevOps is a culture and set of practices applied to technology engineering teams. DevOps can change an organisation into a continuous value-delivery machine, ensuring that your investment in technology makes its way safely into the hands of users and customers, where it starts to generate revenue.

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Planning for digital value creation

The need for Digital Value Creation Plans has never been greater. Businesses currently operating in an exceptionally tough environment can learn lessons from Private Equity on how to achieve razor sharp focus on Value and build solid foundations for growth within a Digital Transformation Strategy.

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The challenges of Servant Leadership

A Servant leader shares power, puts employees first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Servant leadership inverts the norm, and makes the teams nearest the customer the priority. Digital transformation requires leadership; servant leadership accelerates customer-centricity.

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How to build digital capabilities

Digital capability describes the skills and attitudes that individuals and organisations need if they are to thrive in today's world. It is also the capabilities a company requires to transform itself into a sustainable, relevant and successful business by using digital technology as an enabler.

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Finding Product Greatness

A great product answers a genuine need. If it looks good, is easy to use and long-lasting then all the better. In a B2B world the challenge is keeping the product focused on solving the customer's problem. Building the right thing and incorporating it profitably into the business model is paramount.

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Technology transformation for CEOs

The biggest concerns facing CEOs are all to do with the digital transformation of their business. They encompass all strategic and tactical activity that ensures a company can compete and exploit advantages in a technology-enabled marketplace, and require a merging of business and technology.

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The truth about Agile

Agility is about leadership. Agile practice in the technology world has become purely following the method, rather than acceptance of the spirit, intention and principles, where its true value becomes evident. We discuss a number of success principles, to address the engineering waste we now see.

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Project to Product Transformation

Companies must pivot from a project-dominant model to one that builds products. One in which finite timing, discrete funding and tight control are replaced by a continuously funded product development team that is empowered to experiment, explore and meet real-world customer expectations.

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Embracing chaos

We must recognise that despite our desire to control everything, we cannot. Simple principles can allow complex and dynamic situations to be managed successfully. By giving your staff autonomy to make decisions, backed up by tried and tested rules of thumb they will succeed where controls fail.

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Data and analytics informed transformation

Data and analytics provide valuable, actionable insights from both inside and external to your organisation. This gives clarity on internal operational efficiencies, and also on new opportunities that play best to your strengths. These insights help you build the right digital capabilities.

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How to be a Citizen Data Scientist

Data is an asset that organisations have not learned how to exploit. Citizen Data Science empowers your teams to use analytics to solve problems and achieve measurable commercial outcomes. We look at some of the opportunities for team members to use relatively simple tools to assist decision making.