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5 Principles Of A Lean Business Case

March 8, 2016March 8, 2016craigstrong 2

When environments, technologies, development practices evolve, it can take years for management practices to catch up. Business schools will still teach outdated practices [...]

Beyond The Early Adopter

December 30, 2015January 10, 2016craigstrong Comment

The challenge is that you might lose your early adopters as you grow, and this presentation talks about how to continuously delight customers whilst satisfying new market segments in order to achieve growth and how to use OKRs and KPIs to measure progress. [...]

Creating A Lean And Agile Enterprise – Product Development Lifecycle

October 25, 2015January 10, 2016craigstrong 2

Recently I was asked to share our experience and learnings with the Global Product Development Lifecycle work we are doing at Pearson at Tesco. This works focuses on bringing the company together to be more innovative at a cultural level and adopt Agile and Lean Startup principles beyond software teams. [...]

Iterative Funding : Global Product Lifecycle

July 26, 2015January 10, 2016craigstrong Comment

Sharing the story on how the Pearson Global Product Lifecycle embraces iterative funding influenced by Beyond Budgeting, Agile and Lean Startup to develop leading products with the learner at the centre. [...]

Projects vs Products

July 19, 2015January 1, 2016craigstrong Comment

Projects are no longer optimal to deliver digital products. The customer relationship and environment has changed. Businesses need to adopt a whole new culture around projects if they are going to keep or grown their customer base and look beyond using projects to sustain value. [...]

Traditional Enterprise Governance Models

Innovation Strategy – Global Product Lifecycle

May 2, 2015January 1, 2016craigstrong Comment

Recently I was luckily enough to be invited to speak about innovation strategies and the Global Product Lifecycle we have developed at Pearson [...]

Global Product Development Lifecycle

April 17, 2015January 1, 2016craigstrong Comment

The global product development lifecycle is more than just a visualisation of a product at a life stage. We have created a framework which acts as a lens into the global organisation, allowing the organisation to fully use it’s capabilities to adopt agile beyond the development teams. Wrapped into this are Lean Startup practices, which fully embrace Build, Measure, Learn at the heart of product development. [...]