Agile Digital Transformation

Cameron Van Orman is the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Planview, a global leader in strategic portfolio management and enterprise agile planning.Agile has undergone quite a transformation in recent years, going from a purely IT function to now being implemented to some extend in a majority of industries and companies. In this episode,  we discuss how enterprise agility, as well as the ways in which businesses implement it, has been changing over the past few years and what the currently dominant trends are. We bust the myth of agile not relying on any planning, and we take a closer look at value stream management as well as objectives and key results.Links & mentions:planview.com

Liam Martin is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of the SaaS platform Time Doctor, and the author of the book Running Remote published by HarperCollins. In this episode, we discuss collaboration in the current remote-first, highly digitalized business landscape, with a special focus on automation and asynchronous communication as two trends to keep top of mind.  We also take a look at the impact these changes are having on workers' work-life balance and make some predictions for future developments in this area.Links & mentions:amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distractedrunningremote.comyoutube.com/runningremotetimedoctor.comamazon.com/Running-Remote-Successful-Remote-Work-Pioneers

Ivan Stegic is the founder and CEO of TEN7, a Minneapolis-based technology studio specializing in Drupal, with a mission to Make Things That Matter.In this episode, we talk about one of the most essential people skills and/or leadership traits of the current era – empathy. We start off by defining what it means to lead with empathy and how to display empathy towards external stakeholders – user, customers, clients, etc.In the second part, we focus on empathy for internal stakeholders, so, the employees that actually interact with and create experiences for the first group. Ivan closes with some of his first-hand tips from the 15 years of leading TEN7.Links & mentions:agiledrop.com/blog/interview-ivan-stegic-ten7-towards-versionless-drupalten7.comten7.com/missiontwitter.com/TEN7twitter.com/ivanstegicivan@ten7.com

Rudi Asseer is the CEO at IMI People, the largest mechanical installation company in North America managing over 1000 expert technicians in a human-first environment.In this episode, we talk about how digital transformation can help enhance the culture of a company.  We discuss the importance of people skills and the most essential leadership traits for realizing this, with empathy being number one. Rudi also tells us more about their SaaS platform Rhonda which is able to power an ecosystem of optimized employee engagement.Links & mentions:rhonda.aiimipeople.comlinkedin.com/in/rudi-asseer

Andre Achtstaetter is co-COO at adorsys, an integration and technology partner that supports banks, financial service providers and FinTechs in creating new digital services in the open finance sector.In this episode, we take a deep dive into two related digital trends which have been gaining a lot of traction recently – cryptocurrency and NFTs. We talk more generally about blockchain and decentralized technologies, before going more in depth about the use cases and the future potential of these two technologies.Links & mentions:adorsys.com blockchaininstitute.eulinkedin.com/in/andreachtstaetter

Anne Stefanyk is the founder and CEO of the San Francisco based digital agency Kanopi Studios that helps mission-driven clients on their digital transformation journey.In this episode, we discuss digital transformation for nonprofit organizations. We talk about the main pitfalls and benefits of digital transformation for nonprofits, and discuss the key steps they need to take to properly transform. Anne also gives a more practical example of Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and why Drupal was such a great fit for their digital strategy.Links & mentions:agiledrop.com/blog/interview-anne-stefanyklinkedin.com/in/annestefanykkanopi.com

Sally Shaughnessy is the Vice President of Client Services at the Denver-based digital consultancy Aten Design Group.Aten has over 20 years of experience working with notable clients from a variety of sectors, and in this episode, Sally shares some of the key lessons and resulting best practices for managing joint projects.We take a look at how to find the right clients and/or agency partners,  how to form stronger long-lasting partnerships, how to manage the stakeholders of joint projects, and other elements of a successful client-agency partnership.Links & mentions:drupal.org/aten-design-groupatendesigngroup.comtwitter.com/atendesignlinkedin.com/company/atendesigninstagram.com/atendesignwork@aten.iosally@aten.io

Lee Frederiksen is an award-winning business strategy expert and a pioneer of research-driven marketing, currently acting as the Managing Partner of the US marketing firm Hinge.In this episode, we discuss the concept of digital maturity, breaking down what it means to be digitally mature and how that differs across businesses and industries. We explore the close connection between digital maturity and digital transformation, as well as the differences between B2C and B2B approaches. Like in many of our episodes, we also take a look at the key role of the people in reaching digital maturity and what trends are dominating here.Links & mentions:hingemarketing.comlinkedin.com/company/hingetwitter.com/HingeMarketing

Younes Hairej is founder and CEO of the Japanese company Aokumo Inc. which helps organizations drive innovation and transformation through modern technologies and approaches.In this episode, we talk about the important role of culture for effective collaboration and transformation. We focus especially on the impact of the Covid crisis and the importance of finding common ground with vendors / service providers. Having led several IT teams for different Japanese companies, Younes is deeply familiar with the concepts that make Japanese culture so unique and that they follow at Aokumo.Links & mentions:agilemanifesto.orgmckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/culture-for-a-digital-agepwc.ie/services/consulting/insights/building-delivering-digital-transformation-for-your-customerserinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-maplinkedin.com/in/youneshairejtwitter.com/yhairej

Jaime Ramírez is the founder and CEO of Preventor, a US-based company focusing on ID verification and financial crime risk management.In this episode, we discuss financial crime risk management. Jaime talks about when and how he got into this field, and how it has evolved over the years. We place a particular focus on the most recent developments throughout the crisis and take a look at what this increase in digitalization will mean for the future of how financial institutions operate and manage risk.Links & mentions:preventor.com