The Beatles knew how to create a BHAG. While watching the Beatles documentary “Get Back,” by Peter Jackson (I’ve finished two of the three parts so no spoilers please), I quickly made connections to the running of a business. Imagine your company has just announced you’re producing a major live event (whatever type of live [...]
The best indicator of a job well done is the success of your partner. A common principle in the best companies is to treat customers as partners in success. A number of years ago I was discussing a customer with my CTO in what became a watershed moment for me professionally. The CTO was ready [...]
Your Software Is Your Competitive Advantage, from the Harvard Business Review. In our previous blog post we examined how companies are realizing that they are software businesses (to competitive advantage). Recently the HBR suggested that “whoever builds the best software wins” (“In the Digital Economy, Your Software Is Your Competitive Advantage”, 1/18/21). This is an [...]
Making your business more competitive, from the Harvard Business Review. Introduction - No matter your company size or market served, senior business leaders across all verticals are realizing that their firms are (or are becoming) software-run, and therefore are software businesses. That’s one reality sussed out in “Software Testing Is Tedious. AI Can Help” (Harvard [...]
