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Bringing Business, Clinical Operations and IT together to deliver faster better Business Outcomes at Spectrum Healthcare

Overview Spectrum Healthcare, a multispecialty medical practice in Maine, wanted to improve operational efficiency across surgical operations, quality, marketing, clinical operations, physiotherapy champions, compliance, medical staff services, billing, and IT. IT, clinical and operational leaders aimed to enhance collaboration across departments and improve their ability to drive operational changes effectively. When/Why Spectrum was looking at …

Simplifying Scaling Through Fractals, Snowflakes and Turtles

Can you dance at all parties? Be the expert at the intersection? Sounds like an oxymoron—Jack of all trades, master of none. Beyond the fact that you need to be curious, open-minded, and a lifelong learner, I have a trick for you. You don’t need to be an expert in every snowflake when you’re a …

Leveraging Agility on a Ways of Working Simplification Initiative

FlowImpact Yoga, a fast-growing network of studios, continues using the Think It, Build It, Ship It, Tweak It operating system. On the last employee survey, they saw improvements in cross-company collaboration and goal clarity, which makes the mediocre results in Decision-Making an area to try to improve. In a leadership team meeting, they decided to …

Iterating Beyond Software – Applying Agile/Evidence-Based Management in Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Pharma/BioTech and Beyond

Working Software. Done Increments. Two related concepts in the agile world that people trying to leverage Agile/Scrum’s empiricism outside of the software/technology space struggle with. The intent behind these practices is to achieve transparency to validate/invalidate assumptions—you might call it managing based on evidence. The key idea is to get transparency as early and often …

Why The Intersection Matters (A Case Study)

I encounter more and more people struggling to find a clear path in the agile space. They are dealing with a complex, scaled environment with many legacies, with some scaling patterns needed. SAFe resonates to them as an approach that fits their organization’s appetite (or lack thereof) for change/risk but they also want to make …

Product Leader works on the Product Org Using Product Approach Sketch

How Product Leaders Can Apply Product Thinking to Their Organization

“PMs work on the 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁. Product leaders work on the 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗴.” – Ed Biden Let’s take it one step further. Product Leaders should work on the Product Organization using a Product Approach. Successful Product Leaders I worked with applied their Product chops to working on their Org. They Hypothesize, Experiment, Keep options open, Inspect …

The Intersection

SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Spotify Model Empiricism, Flow Revolution, Evolution Agile for Software Development, Agile Beyond Software, Developing your Company using Agile Running Lean, OKRs, EBM, EOS, Scaling Up, Decision Strategies, D4X, The Advantage, Liberating Structures Incubators, Accelerators, Pre-seed Startups, Scaleups, Small/Medium Businesses, Fortune 50 BioTech, Pharma, Technology, FinTech, CyberSecurity Agile Transformation, Product Operating Models Process, …

Hacking your way to an Evidence-Informed Mindset

Evidence-Informed – Making decisions informed by evidence. This includes decisions such as: Opinions, Convictions, Lack of Trust, Power dynamics, and Impatience make it hard to introduce evidence-informed thinking into an organization’s day-to-day decisions, whether at the level of a Product Manager/Owner, Portfolio Leader, or the C-suite. Over the years, I’ve collected a few cultural hacks …

LPM Kanban Think It Build It Ship It Tweak It

Think It Build It Ship It Tweak It – a Business Fable

FlowImpact Yoga is a rising power in the fitness industry. A PE firm has just purchased it, and its leadership is hard at work, making the best of the holding period to grow and improve the business. There are many ideas on the table. The leadership team realized that 1. They need to focus, and …

Fixing Your OKRs - Back to First Principles

Fix Your OKRs: Back to First Principles Video

In this video, I explore the core issues many organizations face with their OKR (Objectives and Key Results) practices. We’ll revisit the fundamental principles that often get lost in the process of setting and tracking OKRs and explore how to fix misaligned strategies. Tune in for actionable insights to help you reset your approach, align …

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