Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself. My advice is to use Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle as the basis for your narrative. The Strategy Cycle. Building the Narrative Building a narrative is important for at-least two reasons.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Platforms provide the foundation for higher levels of innovation. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Uber started life as a ride-hailing product.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Product Mode by Sriram Narayan Innovation Portfolio An innovation portfolio is invaluable because it expresses where products and platforms are in their lifecycle, revealing where each fits into the strategy. I’ve been using the Lean Innovation Portfolio for years.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. Another promising browser innovation that we are researching is the content-visibility CSS property. In order to accomplish this, we took a two-pronged approach.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. We’re not investing enough in potential future innovations and sources of revenue. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons….

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

If 95% of your revenue is from Tier 1 customers, you might want to create a Tier 1 context to ensure you can innovate quickly where ROI is greatest. The answer depends on your business model, the levels of co-change and many other factors. Conversely, if 95% of revenue is through credit card deals, you might want to align with products.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. There are likely to be some big political battles because teams do not want to depend on a shared service for areas in which they need the ability innovate quickly.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

When attempting to explore innovation opportunities, the need for urgent alignment is greater. When the new innovation requires functionality and data from existing products and services, one approach is for the new innovation to be partially owned by each team which the new product cuts across.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” He had a strategy. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

The need to keep delivering product enhancements and new innovations while modernization is in process is one big factor, and dependencies between modernization work items is another. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize?

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy.

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