Description

Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and  EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation.

EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities.

• Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive
• Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles
• Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary
• Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals

Features

• Focus on outcomes, not output: make enterprise agile value-driven, faster, and more adaptive
• Learn better ways to invest, work together, and accelerate successful change
• By a team of pioneering experts at ThoughtWorks, EDGE’s creators – including world-renowned agile expert Jim Highsmith
• Gain convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available by registering your product online

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: The Big Picture
• Chapter 2: Tech@Core
• Chapter 3: EDGE Principles
• Chapter 4: Building a Value-Driven Portfolio
• Chapter 5: Measuring and Prioritizing Value
• Chapter 6: Building a Product Mindset
• Chapter 7: Integrating Strategic and Business as Usual Portfolios
• Chapter 8: Lightweight Governance
• Chapter 9: Autonomous Teams and Collaborative Decision Making
• Chapter 10: Adaptive Leadership
• Chapter 11: EDGE: Exploring Your Transformative Future

Back Cover

Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and  EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation.

EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities.

• Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive
• Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles
• Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary
• Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals

• Focus on outcomes, not output: make enterprise agile value-driven, faster, and more adaptive
• Learn better ways to invest, work together, and accelerate successful change
• By a team of pioneering experts at ThoughtWorks, EDGE’s creators – including world-renowned agile expert Jim Highsmith
• Gain convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available by registering your product online

Master EDGE: the missing link in leadership and portfolio management that helps you successfully execute your digital transformation

Author

Linda Luu is a principal product and portfolio consultant at ThoughtWorks, Inc., with over 15 years' experience in product innovation, customer centered design, and organizational transformation. Experienced in Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking practices, Linda has worked with a number of clients worldwide to build digital organizations that can sense and respond to changing customer and business needs. Linda holds a double degree in commerce (finance) and science (applied maths), and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

David Robinson is a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks, Inc., with over 30 years experience in information technology management, organizational transformation, and technology consulting. David's career has spanned consulting with large organizations, upper management roles in enterprise IT shops, and running an organization development team.