Digitizing Your Business

Traditional businesses need to rethink their underlying assumptions in five domains of strategy; customers, competition, data, innovation, and value. David Rogers in his book, The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age (Columbia Business School Publishing) reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, big data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models, and how Read More …

Digitize Your Traditional Business

The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age (Columbia Business School Publishing)  shows why traditional businesses need to rethink their underlying assumptions in five domains of strategy?customers, competition, data, innovation, and value. He reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, big data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models?and how to integrate these Read More …

Funding a Business at Mid-Life

In the book, it seemed that you stayed away from discussing just the VC funding type which in software seems so prevalent and is that directly related to that midlife entrepreneur that he has assets and everything? I asked that question of Bill Seagraves, author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur. Read More …

Agile in Business w Alan Bustamante

Alan Bustamante is active in the Agile Communities and plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and Read More …

Business Growth Opportunites

The greatest growth opportunities are on the edges of the use of our product/services. Or, on the edges of the 5Rs of Growth. We must make a concentrated effort to identify and participate in relevant knowledge flows on the edges of these 5Rs. When we envision tomorrow’s best product or service being used in our Read More …

The 3 Legs of an Agile Business Practice

An Agile Business must have three pillars to stand on Process Agility, Technical Agility, and Personal Agility, says Patrick Waara of ResponseAgility. Patrick was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, certified ScrumMaster, Read More …