With headlines like “Apple under Tim Cook: A nicer company, but a better one?”, some people are questioning why 5 years into his tenure Apple has not delivered a breakthrough product. Such is the harsh reality for product companies whose business models are predicated on year-on-year growth.
Innovation
Innovation a Vendor Management perspective
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by MIT’s Peter Senge was a seminal book on systems thinking, at the core of which was the premise that if you have good people with a bad system, the system will win every time.
Agile as an enabler of Enterprise Agility
Since the publication of the Agile Manifesto in February 2001, many organisations have adopted some form of Agile Methodology. However, there is still some debate on the application of Agile in distributed offshore teams as it appears counter to Agile principles.