Welcome to the June edition of Streamline! This month, the PPM web has been obsessed with new approaches to innovation (spoiler: they're less flashy than disruption and aim to serve a wider purpose)
What caught our attention in May
AI is helping companies redefine, not just improve, performance. Organizations increasingly use algorithms to challenge and improve enterprise assumptions about the sources of performance, profitability, and growth. (15 min read)
You can expect an explosion of innovation in the next 18-24 months from June 2023. Jeffrey Phillips goes out on a limb and explains why innovation will flourish in the next two years. (6 min read)
The current company-wide bans on Chat GPT are eerily reminiscent of the debate around CAD/PLM information in the cloud. Companies are looking to leverage AI to streamline operations and use the intelligence embedded into AI models, but not at the expense of security and exposure of the data to these models. (5 min read)
Instead of adding (features, products or promotions), consider substracting (less processes, less changes, less products). Companies that reduce and simplify workload on the front lines find that they can position employees to deliver a better customer experience. (11 min read)
The Board doesn't want to hear about the features of your product. They want to know that you understand the challenges ahead, have a good strategy to overcome them, and they can trust you to lead the way. (8 min read)
A new way to depict Digital Transformation. Representing and evaluating the progress from "Industrial-age" to a "Digital-age" mindset and processes is not easy. Steve Denning proposes a new Diagnostic tool to describe a company's efforts in a neutral way. (7 min read)
Great innovation is hiding in plain sight. The dismal picture of innovation in the management press misses the great innovation that is actually taking place in the emerging digital economy. (7 min read)
Your Agile "definition of ready" is not as neutral as you think. It could be a dangerous step back into a gated process where concurrent work is no longer possible. (7 min read)
The problem with Agile at Scale: few companies have complete and cross-functional Agile Teams. In the absence of Agile Teams, nothing makes sense. (5 min read)
Innovators need to be great communicators, because an idea that doesn’t gain traction is an idea that fails. And most people can immensely improve their communication skills by following a few simple rules. (10 min read)
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
