Are Your People Quiet Quitting, or Are They Just Disengaged?
Low pay, stingy benefits, and an overworked culture are all symptoms of a company that is not checking the boxes for its people. But what about the ones that are: the organizations that do get a good rep for treating their people well and honoring work/life balance? What can we infer about the Quiet Quitting within those companies? My hypothesis? Maybe the organizational structure is making it impossible for talent to get their work done and, as a result, make an impact. Asking people to try and try again without changing the outcome is a surefire way to encourage disengagement and Quiet Quitting.
Here’s a Better Way to Manage Quarterly Business Reviews for Product-Led Orgs
It’s essential that we rethink and reimagine the QBR to better suit the needs of a transformed organization and ensure teams and their leaders have the opportunity to review roadmaps, KPIs, and learnings from past releases.
The 3 Digital Transformation Trends I’m Seeing in 2022
With Q2 well underway, I’ve been reflecting on a few emerging trends in digital transformation that I think we’ll see more of in 2022. These three patterns are challenging companies to change the way they operate, hire, and align business to value if they want to succeed.
Talking Product 'In The Key of D'
In the Key of Digital podcast from Creatis, talking about digital transformation, product and agile.
Hiring a VP of Product? How to Plan Smart & Hire Right
You probably shouldn't hire anyone until you've sat down to examine what kind of product leader you're looking for.
Chasing the Cycle
In a perfect world, our backlogs are refined 2–3 quarters in advance, maybe more, with a modicum of confidence. But the further out you go, the more fuzzy and directional the roadmap becomes. Anything more than that is pure fantasy masquerading as a plan.
Instilling a Fail Fast Mentality
These days, everyone professes to be adopting a "fail fast" mentality. How can leaders lay the groundwork to help teams embrace risk and weather the inevitable failures that happen when teams pursue innovation?
Digital Transformation & The Speed of Change
The speed of change is a common concern for leaders engaged in digital transformation. Sometimes the worry is that it's moving too fast, but more often that it's not moving fast enough. Change, after all, is hard - and coordinated change across business units can be downright impossible.
Digital Transformation Isn't "IT's Job"
Believe it or not, it's not just IT's job (or Marketing's job either, for that matter) to lead Digital Transformation. Successful transformations are a whole-enterprise focus.
Digital Transformation Quick Hits
Introducing Digital Transformation video shorts from Jen Swanson Consulting.
This Isn't Working How I Thought it Would: Rethinking your Digital Transformation
The more I talk to execs about their digital transformation efforts, the more I clearly see that the most common source of friction is all about the people involved and the impact to the organization.