Adaptive Leadership: Embracing the Future of IT - Jim Highsmith

1. ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Embracing The Future Of It

2. THE CHAIR FACTORY

3. CHANGING THE GAME
IN THE RETAIL FOOD INDUSTRY.
Food Retail + Food Service + Supercharge with Technology

4. CORE BUSINESS STRATEGIES
Efficienc
y
Responsiveness

5. BUSINESS RESPONSIVENESS

6. BUSINESS CHANGING AT A STRATEGIC LEVEL
Executives need to learn how to
exploit short-lived opportunities.
- Rita McGrath The End of Competitive Advantage

7. Companies don’t pass through
life cycles, opportunities do.
- Don Sull The Upside of Turbulence (2009)

8. MANAGE THE FLOW OF OPPORTUNITIES
LATENT UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITY
WELL-UNDERSTOOD
OPPORTUNITY
FUTURE UNCERTAINTY
PRODUCT UNCERTAINTY
FEATURE UNCERTAINTY
DESIGN UNCERTAINTY
ENGINEERING UNCERTAINTY

9. LIFE CYCLE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Based on figures by
Don Sull & Rita McGrath

10. Technology is the Number 1 concern of CEOs worldwide.
—IBM Study, 2012
TECHNOLOGY DRIVERS
MOBILE SOCIAL BIG DATA CLOUD IoT

11. DECAYING CORE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

12. REVITALIZE CORE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
• Transaction
• System specific
• Efficiency
• Multi-system
• Responsive
• Customer Focused

13. CHALLENGES TO EMBRACING THE FUTURE
• Improving responsiveness
• Transient competitive advantage
• Exciting, and scary, new technology
• Decaying core enterprise systems
To put it simply, there has been no other point in
history when so many aspects of disruptive
change have collided and conspired to wreak
havoc…

14. Either remain average and languish in the middle
under constant threat of extinction, or swing for the
fences and become remarkable. It was clear cut.
- Doug Stephens The Retail Revival, (2013)

15. A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
• Ranked #1 innovator by Forbes magazine 2011, 12, 13
– 5 yr avg sales growth—39.5% (2012)
– 5 yr avg net income growth—78.7% (2012)
• 140 Agile teams in 2011
– Per Steve Green, VP technology program mgt
– Agile 7+ years
– All in approach (25 teams to start)
– Other departments (R&D, Operations, Marketing)
– Over 100,000 automated acceptance tests
• Steve Green-“Agile is the foundation of our innovation!”

17. ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP

19. DON’T MICROMANAGE??

20. ADAPTING

21. ADAPTING: THE BIRTH OF A NEW PRODUCT

22. INNOVATION REQUIRES DISRUPTIVE THINKING
Disruptive thinkers see the same information others
do, but they interpret it differently. Disruptive thinkers
aren’t satisfied with the status quo, they are looking
for big wins. Disruptive thinkers challenge your mental
models about the world, and they challenge their own
also. - Jim Highsmith, Adaptive Leadership

23. ACTION PLAN
THINK BIG START SMALL MOVE FAST
Vision and Exploration Define Experiments Rapid, Interactive
Design

24. THANK YOU
eBook, Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility, Jim Highsmith.
Blog: www.jimhighsmith.com. Twitter: @jimhighsmith