Develop the Company as a Product

Navigating The GenAI Storm

How can we leverage GenAI to help us build better products? Operate more efficiently? Close more deals? Reduce customer churn? A Company’s GenAI transformation is a classic example of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – and the need to try things out, inspect, and adapt, by multi-disciplinary teams. In other words, it’s the classic use …

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Developing Meetings People Will Be Disappointed To Miss

“How disappointed will you be if we won’t have this standing meeting anymore?” Let’s be honest – do any of you expect to see a “very disappointed” answer from the meeting participants? (If you do – let me know! I want to know your secret!) If there’s anything competing with Agile in terms of how …

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Using the PMF Survey to gauge Company Fit For Purpose

How would you feel if you could no longer work the way we work here? Sean Ellis, the OG Growth Hacker, came up with the PMF survey question, which has become one of (if not the) established ways to gauge Product Market Fit: If more than 40% of your existing customers answer “Very Disappointed,” you …

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AARRR Pirate Metrics for Change Adoption

“We trained 1359 people!” “we transformed 127 teams” Enough with the vanity metrics. Ever wonder how your change initiative is REALLY doing? Think of your organization as an internal market for the change. Consider Pirate Metrics (AARRR) to see how your change “Product” is doing in this market. Acquisition (or awareness) – are people discovering our …

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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 …

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Company as a Product

“One of the things that we do differently is that we treat our company as a product” – Jason Fried – CEO and co-founder of 37signals (on Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz) “Culture is a Product. Every company builds two products, one is the product they build for their customers, and the other …

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Company Agility Next Frontier Video

The Next Agile Frontier – Agile Company Development

Dealing with business growth/transformation challenges through agility I’ve been helping companies improve their operations for over a decade. A repeating pattern is where a very successful company is facing growing pains affecting its ability to scale to the next level. Some examples of the challenges I’m called in to help with: Business/Organizational Agility — The New …

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