My strategy for increased privacy

Google makes awesome services. Facebook is great in many ways. The problem is that we pay for these…

From Agile to systems thinking: lessons on company culture

Idealized Design — To solve a problem, start with the ideal solution

A group of people enter a meeting room. Sales are slowly dropping, they’re told. It’s not dramatic, but it’s happening, and they need to do something about it. They start brainstorming ideas on how to improve…

How to fix 90% of problems at work

Applying the first three core practices of Kanban will fix 90% of issues we have in knowledge work. Kanban is an approach to incremental, evolutionary process change for organizations.

Budgeting is a wasteful and destructive relic from the past

Let’s say Mike, a department head at a big corporation, is working on the budget for his department. He estimates the revenue by looking at figures from previous years, he forecasts that his department should be able to grow…

The digital organization — how should we restructure ourselves?

The invention of the steam engine took humanity to the next level. Work was no longer bound by the physical strength of horses. We had a machine.