The Idealcast – BMK

Gene Kim's #IDEALCAST inaugural episode with Peter Moore and Dr. Mik Kersten—key takeaways on digital disruption, the five ideals, and business transformation.

Congratulations to Gene Kim and IT Revolution team for the launch of #IDEALCAST.

The inaugural episode titled "Digital Disruption, The Five Ideals: Peter Moore and Dr. Mik Kersten" is a conversation about the five ideals from Gene's The Unicorn Project book. The interview is filled with fascinating points, discussion about flow, DevOps, Digital Transformation, inspiring stories between Gene Kim, Mik Kersten and Peter Moore.

My first impression as a listener of podcasts on a variety of topics related to IT, Performance, DevOps & Digital Transformation — in #IDEALCAST Gene's intro, quality of the conversation, voice over and the background title music scores well and makes its mark.

My top takeaways from this episode:

#1 Digital transformation is an oxymoron. It is not about digital transformation; it is about business transformation, which is enabled by in many cases driven by these disruptive digital technologies.

#2 As a CEO, he took over in the year 2000, the share traded at $40 a share, he stepped down in 2014, trading at $40 a share. During the CEO's entire fourteen-year tenure, the stock never traded over forty dollars a share. The stocks are now trading at $186 a share today.

#3 The organisations have gotten stuck where there is no locality & no simplicity. The leadership has to understand how to get there. There is no chance or anywhere near to this ideal of "Locality & Simplicity" if you treat IT as a cost centre.

#4 What is currently making it difficult for you & your team to achieve the desired business outcome? What we discovered quickly is that if you are in sales and you want 360 degrees of the customer, you need to open five different applications. This triggered a program called "One Click One View."

#5 The common denominator is that if you want the business outcome, then you need to understand these people. Every CEO must understand and value the software development and delivery process.

#6 Without changing the way teams are designed, the architecture of our system cannot change.

#7 With regard to the 3rd Ideal, Improvement of Daily Work, teams don't have the luxury of "20% time" for improvements. Make it a priority. Continuous Improvement is not a separate task; it is part of the daily work.

Looking forward to the next episodes.