Toward superset platforms

One useful way to understand how companies develop and evolve their offerings is to look at what they fundamentally organize around. In my experience, most organizations fall into one of three broad categories: project-centric, product-centric or platform-centric. Project-centric companies organize everything as a project. Whether they’re developing a product, adapting it for a specific customer … Read more

Toward continuous value delivery

The history of industry is littered with failed projects. Projects where a team was asked to build a product based on a specification, a budget and a timeline. And failed. According to the research I’ve conducted, 60-80 percent of all IT projects are considered failures in some sense, either because they failed completely or failed … Read more

The power of purpose

Although there’s quite a bit of criticism of the new, young generations of millennials and Gen Zers, one aspect that I genuinely appreciate is their focus on purpose and meaning. As a Gen Xer, I grew up professionally in a time dominated by capitalism, globalization, efficiency and scale. Success was measured primarily in growth curves, … Read more