{"id":677,"date":"2019-01-02T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:41:26","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/index.php\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SPEED, DATA AND ECOSYSTEMS<\/h1>\n<h2>Excelling in a Software Driven World<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/198395387\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/198395387\">Speed, Data, and Ecosystems &#8211; Excelling in a Software-Driven World by Jan Bosch<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user61198099\">Jan Bosch<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-682\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JanBosch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JanBosch.png 718w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JanBosch-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;This book provides a a simple set of priorities and a clear roadmap to successfully transition your organization toward the &#8220;digitalization era&#8221;. I discuss the three focus areas that firms need to address: speed, data and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Speed is concerned with shortening the feedback loops between the company and its systems deployed in the field as well the users of these systems.<\/p>\n<p>As virtually any software-intensive system these days is connected to the interned, we have unprecedented possibilities to collect data. This allows organizations to shift from opinion-based decision making to data-driven decision making and to generate novel insights.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, ecosystems allow companies to focus their internal activities on the most differentiating aspects and to rely on partners in the ecosystem for everything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-681 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book-300x300.png\" alt=\"Speed, Data, and Ecosystems - Excelling in a Software Driven World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"color-text\">SAVE 20%<\/span>\u00a0by entering Promo Code\u00a0<span class=\"color-text\">AZQ92<\/span>\u00a0+ FREE standard shipping!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button sun-flower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/Speed-Data-and-Ecosystems-Succeeding-in-a-Software-Centric-World\/Bosch\/p\/book\/9781138198180\">Order book here!<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Digital Transformation<\/h1>\n<h2>A Holistic Perspective for Business Leaders<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-932\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-932\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2019-08-13-at-09.40.12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2019-08-13-at-09.40.12.png 1386w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2019-08-13-at-09.40.12-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2019-08-13-at-09.40.12-768x1102.png 768w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot-2019-08-13-at-09.40.12-714x1024.png 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital Transformation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Digital technologies (software, data and artificial intelligence) represent the key disruptive force in industry in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. In response to this force, companies need to fundamentally transform and this affects the entire organization and the business ecosystem surrounding it. The transformation concerns &#8211; among other things &#8211; moving from a transactional, one dimensional business model to a continuous, multi-dimensional business model, from a focus on \u201catoms\u201d to a focus on \u201cbits\u201d and from hierarchical organizational structures to empowered cross-disciplinary teams. Whereas many authors discuss a focused, single dimension of the digital transformation, the challenge is, in fact<strong>, <\/strong>holistic and multi-dimensional in nature as every function in the organization is affected and the company culture needs to transform. This book addresses the lack of a holistic perspective on digitalization by discussing it from ten different perspectives, including business strategy, leadership, innovation, personal development, R&amp;D strategy, systems engineering, speed, data and AI, ecosystems and, finally, organization and change management. Through short sections, it provides a series of perspectives that, when combined, provide a holistic and consistent framework and context for your digital transformation. To order a paper copy (price \u20ac15 + shipping) or download a <strong>free<\/strong> PDF version: <a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TheDigitalTransformation.pdf\">The Digital Transformation<\/a>. For any questions or remarks, send email to <strong>jan@janbosch.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>USING DATA TO BUILD BETTER PRODUCTS<\/h1>\n<h2>A Hands-On Guide to Working with Data in R&amp;D &#8211; The Basics<\/h2>\n<p>This book provides very practical guidance on how to use data to build better products. Hands-on startup case in wearables domain is used throughout the book to illustrate and exemplify the concepts presented. Download a <strong>free<\/strong> PDF version: <a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UsingDataToBuildBetterProducts-SemiFinal.pdf\">Using Data To Build Better Products<\/a>. For a paper copy, click on the button below. For any questions or remarks, send email to <strong>jan@janbosch.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-698 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book2.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <a class=\"button sun-flower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Using-Build-Better-Products-Hands\/dp\/1541210808\">Order book here!<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\" class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Impactful Software <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Business-dri<\/span><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">ven Refactoring, Platforms and Ecosystems<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This book provides set of tools to address the challenge of effectively and systematically reasoning about software assets, resource allocation, refactoring, platforms and engaging the ecosystem surrounding your organization. As the foundation for this set of tools we have developed the three layer product model (3LPM) as a tool and framework to reason about strategic use of software in large scale software engineering. To download a <strong>free<\/strong> PDF version: <a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DoubleYourRDEffectiveness.pdf\">Double Your R&amp;D Effectiveness<\/a>. For a paper copy, click on the button below. In case of any questions or remarks, send email to <strong>jan@janbosch.com<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-789\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/518MAlXtR-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/518MAlXtR-L.jpg 354w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/518MAlXtR-L-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"button sun-flower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Impactful-Software-Business-driven-Refactoring-Ecosystems-ebook\/dp\/B079R4PYDS\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1518422427&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=Jan+Bosch\">Order book here!<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Strategic Digital Product Management<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1905\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/StrategicDigitalProductManagement.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1905\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-11.07.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-11.07.41.png 1056w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-11.07.41-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-11.07.41-719x1024.png 719w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-27-at-11.07.41-768x1094.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strategic Digital Product Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Engineering is concerned with building systems. We look at the requirements, design an architecture, do detailed design, implement, test and release. This may be a bespoke system for a specific customer, a product or a platform used to build other products with. There is another activity concerned with what to build in the first place. And, perhaps more importantly, why we should build the system in the first place. This activity is typically referred to as product management.<\/p>\n<p>Defining the requirements for a system is the output of the product management activity, but a whole lot of work happens before that. This includes research to understand the market, interacting with customers, determining the way to release the system, what to charge for it, and so on. Because of these many facets, activities and responsibilities, product management is often viewed as fuzzy and difficult to understand.<\/p>\n<p>In this short book, we\u2019ll dive into the world of product management and seek to bring some structure to the topic and to identify the key activities, tools, mechanisms and approaches that are available to us, when to use these and to understand how product management has changed with the emergence of digitalization. In my view, one way of deconstructing product management is to discern five main areas: principles, scopes, activities, factors and roles. These are discussed in this short book. As always, if you have questions or remarks, please do reach out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/StrategicDigitalProductManagement.pdf\">Strategic Digital Product Management<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MentalTraps.pdf\">There is no such thing as: 15 mental traps<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MentalTraps.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1914 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-04-at-15.33.02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-04-at-15.33.02.png 474w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-04-at-15.33.02-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The very essence of humanity is our ability to create, use and believe in concepts, independent of these having a physical reality. For instance, the notion of a family or a tribe, the way we identify as members of a nation state or the way military units are molded into a team is entirely based on getting us to believe in a non-physical, artificial concept. At the extreme, people will sacrifice their lives for their unit, tribe or nation state. In the normal course of life, we use concepts all the time to communicate, solve problems and validate solutions. In fact, in many ways, innovation and research are concerned with the creation of new concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing this powerful comes without a backside and concepts are no different. Similar to a map being an approximation of a real-world area, abstracted to only show a highly limited number of aspects about that area, concepts abstract much more complex underlying structures and show only those aspects that are considered relevant when the concept was first developed. As we as humans ignore well over 99% of all information that reaches us through our senses, we use concepts to filter and quickly map what we are experiencing through our senses into the preconceived notions and concepts that we have internalized in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The naive use of concepts without understanding the underlying more complex notion easily leads to mental traps where concepts lead us astray. The mental traps that I want to explore in this short book are concerned with mixing up the map with the real world. In information technology or software engineering, we use a whole lot of concepts and especially in a digital context, there is not really a real-world \u201cmap\u201d to remind us that the concept is a model of reality and not reality itself.<\/p>\n<h1>Life Philosophy<\/h1>\n<p>These last years, I\u2019ve written about companies and technology, but little about how to operate as a professional and change agent in a rapidly digitalizing world. The challenge is that it may easily become presumptuous and a bit arrogant, which is what I want to avoid as I\u2019m as much a student as anyone reading this and just trying to figure it out as I go along. However, after having worked with quite a few companies, with hundreds, if not thousands, of people, and having observed and having been involved in successful and not-so-successful examples, I believe I have some credibility to share my reflections and thoughts on how to successfully lead and change companies as well as yourself. Here are 15 lessons I believe are worthwhile to consider.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1886\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/15RulesProtagonist.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1886\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-09.41.14.png\" alt=\"Be the Protagonist of your life: 15 rules\" width=\"383\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-09.41.14.png 1454w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-09.41.14-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-09.41.14-1024x944.png 1024w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-09.41.14-768x708.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be the Protagonist of your life: 15 rules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/15RulesProtagonist.pdf\">Be the Protagonist of your life: 15 rules<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Whitepapers<\/h1>\n<p>There are several whitepapers available for download:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Software-Platforms-small.pdf\">Software Platforms<\/a>: In this whitepaper, I discuss 10 lessons that I have collected over the last 25 years working with platforms, software product lines and frameworks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Digitalization8Capabilitiessmall.pdf\">Digitalization 8 Capabilities<\/a>: Here I present 8 capabilities that companies need to master in order to be successful with their digitalization journey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ProductDevelopmentFallacies.pdf\">Product Development Fallacies<\/a>: Product development is plagued with numerous of misconceptions and fallacies. This whitepaper discusses the 10 most important fallacies and traps that I see companies fall into.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPEED, DATA AND ECOSYSTEMS Excelling in a Software Driven World Speed, Data, and Ecosystems &#8211; Excelling in a Software-Driven World by Jan Bosch from Jan Bosch on Vimeo. &#8220;This book provides a a simple set of priorities and a clear roadmap to successfully transition your organization toward the &#8220;digitalization era&#8221;. 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