Jan Bosch, Why Digitalization Will Kill Your Company Too

Jan Bosch joins the G&T Sessions today, discussing the importance of innovation and technology in driving human progress.

Takeaways

• Innovation and technology are key drivers of human progress.
• Industry-academia collaboration faces challenges due to differences in cycle times and priorities.
• Business agility is crucial for organizations to respond quickly to market changes.
• Federated learning and distributed AI offer new approaches to data privacy and model training.
• Truly cross-functional teams are essential for end-to-end value delivery.
• Keeping innovations alive in large organizations requires finding a balance between autonomy and alignment with career goals.
• Clarifying one's purpose is essential for personal and professional growth.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

07:14 The Importance of Innovation and Technology

12:06 Challenges in Industry-Academia Collaboration

18:12 Software Center and Accelerating Digital Transformation

24:05 The Need for Business Agility and the Limitations of Agile

26:16 Federated Learning and Distributed AI

30:47 The Transition to Truly Cross-Functional Teams

35:36 Lean Management and Organizational Deforestation

36:10 Value Models and Autonomy

39:02 BAPO Model and Organizational Structure

40:12 Innovation and Organizational Structure

43:14 Keeping Innovations Alive

45:31 Pearls of Wisdom

49:18 Purpose and Education

51:18 Founder-led Purpose-driven Startups

54:44 Digital Product Management Week

57:03 Living in the Nordics

Jan Bosch is professor at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between more than 15 large European companies (including Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Saab Defense, Scania, Siemens and Bosch) and five universities focused on digitalization. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also led Intuit's Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was vice president and head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden.

His research activities include digitalisation, evidence-based development, business ecosystems, artificial intelligence and machine/deep learning, software architecture, software product families and software variability management. He is the author of several books including "Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach" published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press) and ÒSpeed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven WorldÓ published by Taylor and Francis, editor of several books and volumes and author of hundreds of research articles. He is editor for Journal of Systems and Software as well as Science of Computer Programming, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on numerous program committees and organised countless workshops. Jan is a fellow member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.

Jan serves on the boards of Burt Intelligence, Shelfplanner and Strawberry planet. Earlier he served on the boards of IVER and Peltarion and was chairman of the boards of Auqtus, Fidesmo and Remente. In the startup space, Jan is an angel investor in several startup companies. He also runs a boutique consulting firm, Boschonian AB, that offers its clients support around the implications of digitalization including the management of R&D and innovation. For more information see his website: www.janbosch.com.