inventor of the LBO

Steve Denning: Why Are Millions Of Managers Becoming Obsolete? Here Are 21 Reasons. In response to several articles here and here suggesting that millions of managers are becoming obsolete, I have been asked to clarify. (more)

truck maker

maker of thermostats and other electronic/digital components

inventor of the Post-It

aka sticky note, post-it-note originated by 3M

airplane maker

Steve Denning: How The 5-Year Total Return Helps Measure Value Creation Performance. The 5YTR shows how the stock market’s perception of the value of the stock has changed over the years. (more)

Steve Denning: Don’t Reorganize: Run Your Firm As An Agile Network. The right question doesn’t start with the organization or its structure at all. It starts with the customer. What does you customer and your market need? (more)

see Network Of Competence

author (more)

Steve Denning term for organization model of a network of self-organizing empowered product teams (more)

term from Julian Birkinshaw; title of book by Steve Denning

member of middle management

Steve Denning: Why Agile Needs To Take Over Management Itself. Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. (business agility) (more)

Johnson and Johnson, Johnson & Johnson

Business Process Reengineering

getting stuff done: business process management, business process re-engineering

value delivered to a customer (see customer-driven)

Customer Development focused instead of Product-Driven Auteur Theory? Peter Drucker: There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)