Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that produces and sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in Canada and the United States.[1] The company's headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario, where it was founded, and Denver, Colorado.[2] It develops software in offices in the United States, Canada, and Serbia.[3] Dominion produces electronic (e-voting) voting machines, which allow voters to cast their votes electronically as well as optical scanning devices used to tabulate paper ballots... In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc.) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S had just acquired Premier from Diebold and was required to sell off Premier by the United States Department of Justice over anti-trust concerns.[25] In June 2010, Dominion acquired Sequoia Voting Systems.[26] In 2018, Dominion was acquired by its management and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems (more)

Steve Denning: How Networks Of Competence Help Avoid The Trauma Of Reorganizations. ...trauma of reorganizations can be avoided with a different kind of organizational arrangement: a network of competence, rather than a hierarchy of authority. (more)

Steve Denning: Why Firms Need A Phase Change In Adaptability To Survive A Trade War. With the launch over recent weeks of a global trade war by the United States against all the major economies of the world, including its closest trading partners, individual firms face an exponentially more uncertain context. (VUCA) (more)

Steve Denning: Warning To All Managers: Your Job Is Becoming Obsolete. In 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle published a story about the mysterious disappearance of a famous racehorse and the murder of the horse’s trainer. No one could figure it out until the fictional detective Sherlock Homes pointed out that none of the witnesses had heard the watchdog bark during the night. This negative fact showed that criminal must have been someone the dog recognized. (more)

Steve Denning: Why Networks Of Competence Also Require Hierarchies. On December 19, 1154, in Westminster Abbey in England, Henry FitzEmpress, an educated 21-year old, became the first man to dare to crown himself “King of England”. His aspiration was to create a nation. His problem? The country was in chaos. After a disastrous civil war, robbery was rampant. After the crusades, squatters occupied vacant castles. No one knew who owned what. Henry saw that if being king was to mean anything at all, he would have to establish a system to prevent crime or administer justice, while establishing his own power as the source of justice. (more)

Steve Denning: Why Mindset Is Driving The Age Of Agile. As noted in my last article here, Agile management, after living in the shadows from general management for 15 years, is now “eating the world” and even heralding a new age. (more)

Steve Denning: Understanding The Agile Mindset. Practitioners are thus said to have an Agile mindset when they are preoccupied—and sometimes obsessed—with innovating and delivering steadily more customer value, with getting work done in small self-organizing teams, and with collaborating together in an interactive network. Such organizations have been shown to have the capacity to adapt rapidly to a quickly shifting marketplace. (more)

Steve Denning: Crafting A Manifesto For Management In The Digital Age. What used to work, doesn’t any more. The complexity and the pace of change of the digital age are so different from the industrial-era that generally accepted management practices are now obsolete. A new set of management principles and processes are guiding the actions of the most successful firms in the world today. They are summarized in a Manifesto for Management in the Digital Age (Figure 1) and represent a guide to a prosperous future. (more)

Steve Denning: Millions Of Managers Are Becoming Obsolete—By Solving The Wrong Problem. Two months ago, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson and associate professor Michaela J. Kerrissey wrote an eloquent article in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review., “What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety.” (more)

Steve Denning: Millions Of Managers Are Becoming Obsolete: Master Value Creation Now. A management revolution is under way in business. Pursuit of profits no longer gets the job done. Firms that practice traditional management are going out of business. The managers who run these firms are now also at risk. They should prepare for these changes by mastering the ten basic truths of value-creating enterprises. (more)

Organizations tend to swing between Functional structure (you report to someone who used to have a job like yours) and Project Management or divisional structure (you report to someone who is coordinating your efforts with those of other folks not like you). The styles have complementary strengths and weaknesses. MatrixManagement freezes the pendulum in the middle by having you report to two managers at once. WikiWikiWeb:MatrixManagement (more)

divisional structure with general manager

Martin Cagan framing of agile product development process (actually he says "it's a conceptual model, not a process"); typically requires transformation, see (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined; cf Product-Led

Martin Cagan/Jon Moore: Transformation Defined. One question that we get quite frequently is, “what can a company that has transformed do better than a company that hasn’t?” (transformed to the Product Operating Model) (more)

book TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model by Martin Cagan, Lea Hickman, Christian Idiodi, Chris Jones, Jon Moore. https://www.svpg.com/books/transformed-moving-to-the-product-operating-model/ (more)

change, typically significant change: Re-Engineering, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Product Operating Model Transformation ((2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined); (Change Your Organization) (more)

iatrogenic; medical variety of human error; whole-Product Quality issue (more)

Situational awareness or situation awareness, often abbreviated as SA is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or other factors. It is also defined as the perception of the elements in the environment considering time and space, the understanding of their meaning, and the prediction of their status in the near future.[1] It is also defined as adaptive, externally-directed consciousness focused on acquiring knowledge about a dynamic task environment and directed action within that environment.[2] Situation awareness is recognized as a critical foundation for successful decision making in many situations, including the ones which involve the protection of human life and property, such as law enforcement, aviation, air traffic control, ship navigation,[3] health care,[4] emergency response, military command and control operations, transmission system operators, self defense,[5] and offshore oil and nuclear power plant management.[6] Inadequate situation awareness has been identified as one of the primary causal factors in accidents attributed to human error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness

term from Manuel Castells (more)

CEO Epic Games