Pat Reed on the need for Business Agility and Value Innovation

Published: Feb. 6, 2017, midnight

b'In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pat Reed of iHoriz about value innovation, adaptive leadership and what\\u2019s needed to create real business agility. \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n - Business agility is about adapting and thriving in extreme uncertainty\\n - Make value visible \\u2013 really understand who your customer is and how value is derived in your organisation, then focus on only doing things that truly add value\\n - The management practice of \\u201cdoing more with less\\u201d is both delusional and counter-productive\\n - We know about the need for WIP limits and the impact of context switching on productivity, yet somehow some managers believe their organisations are immune from these realities\\n - Value must be measured in terms of making an impactful difference to a customer or to the business\\n - Fast failure and learning are critical to innovation and sustainable organisation success\\n - Being able to adapt quicker than the competition, quicker than the customer\\u2019s changing needs is imperative for business success today \\n\\nNotes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2lcedge\\n\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq'