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Letting go to lead
Whenever the weather allows for it, we like to eat outside. At dinner time in our little courtyard in the city of Toronto, mother nature...

Gino Marckx
May 31, 20213 min read


Value Stream Mapping vs. Value Stream Management: What’s the difference?
“Whenever there is a product for a customer, there is a value stream. -John Shook and Mark Rother, Learning to See” Creating more value...
Peter Maddison
Apr 21, 20216 min read


Is quality holding back your value delivery?
In previous posts, we discussed what you can learn about your team from tracking a minimum of data. We introduced throughput as the most...

Gino Marckx
Mar 31, 20213 min read


Meet the learning organization
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus was onto something when he said many years ago that “Change is the only constant” A saying as true today...

Gino Marckx
Feb 5, 20212 min read


Directing Flow
Introducing organizational change is a tricky business, especially when it involves new technology. Even seemingly innocuous changes to...
Peter Maddison
Jan 5, 20216 min read


Metrics to help your team improve
Continuous improvement is at the heart of any agile approach. But where do we start? And how can we know that our improvement initiatives...

Gino Marckx
Nov 19, 20203 min read


Do I need a platform team?
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Most transformations do not deliver upon their intended results. Many of these transformations...
Peter Maddison
Apr 27, 20204 min read


Knowing where you are on your digital transformation journey
How many of you have been through something labelled as a digital transformation in the past 5 years? Many hands go up, and several...
Peter Maddison
Apr 19, 20205 min read


This is the time. Every crisis is an opportunity
We rarely find the time to invest in personal development when we are heads down in our work and lives. Often it only occurs when a...

Gino Marckx
Mar 31, 20202 min read


Identifying the bottleneck
Often when we first engage with organizations, we find they enter the conversation with a clear idea of what their problems are....
Peter Maddison
Mar 2, 20203 min read


Application Modernization and Complexity Debt
Today I want to talk about a common digital transformation topic I get asked about, application modernization. More specifically, how...
Peter Maddison
Jan 27, 20205 min read


Locality, Simplicity and Flow
The Unicorn Project from IT Revolution, brings together a number of interesting ideas. In the coming weeks, we are setting up a series of...
Peter Maddison
Jan 20, 20203 min read


Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Change: Part 3 - Dealing with silos
When working with some of our larger customers, we frequently run into common barriers to change. Change is difficult and, no matter how...
Peter Maddison
Nov 20, 20193 min read


Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Change: Part 2 - Not seeing the system as a whole
When working with some of our larger customers we frequently run into common barriers to change. Change is difficult and, no matter how...
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Jun 3, 20194 min read


Assessing maturity of a technology department
Our ultimate objective is to help our customers be successful. We have strong opinions on what successful companies look like and what is...

Gino Marckx
Apr 4, 20192 min read


The Queen's Hyperloop Design Team: a lesson in Systems Thinking
Last year I was invited to help the Queen’s Hyperloop Design Team improve their chances in the SpaceX competition. They had just been...

Gino Marckx
Mar 7, 20192 min read
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