Leadership is not only about leading others but also about leading yourself. As it is important for a successful organisation to have clearly defined vision, mission and core values and to stick to them, the same should also be said for successful leadership.

Simon Wardley explains how he became interested in Mapping, the benefits his style of mapping provides along with examples of how they have helped organisations make and/or save millions.

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Enterprise level transformation within a large corporate can be difficult, but with a compelling vision, the right environment and supporting processes it is possible to bring product transformation to life . Balancing transformation with delivery through making changing the way we work become part of the work we do.

Many organisations have adopted Agile ways-of-working, but their management remain at the epicentre of decisions and having to organise and coordinate the work.

In this talk, Christian will focus on the importance of servant leadership, enterprise-wide collaboration, integrity, diversity and psychological safety. All are critical in order to support business agility and successful strategy

This talk will touch on the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

Discovering, developing and making therapies of value for patients is both rewarding and incredibly hard. At GSK we are working to transform our pipeline through the development and application of advanced analytics, data science and visualisation.

You’ll leave this talk with some key principles to apply within your own organisation

Customer centricity is about providing a value proposition which delivers a positive experience to build trust and loyalty. In most cases, that results in an increased profit and employee engagement. However, with evolving technologies, competitors and regulations, what once comprised a positive experience, can quickly become obsolete.

A recent Forbes article quoted the depressing fact that 70% of us are unhappy at work. Yet more and more organisations are placing emphasis on the role of HR, with a higher number of CHROs sitting on boards than ever before. So what is going wrong?

There is power in networks and the connections between people. Organisations where ideas can freely flow between people, are more successful, smarter and more innovative than ones where knowledge lives in silos.

11 Reflections on tackling the cultural elephant

Two years on from talking about ‘Tech is easy, Culture is hard’, Richard reflects on Nationwide’s and his own ongoing learnings.

Enterprise Cultural Change is HARD! Digital Transformation is pretty tricky too! A corporate ambition, strategy and direction is key but how do we also effectively engage the rest of the organisation at all levels to make it real, understandable, and inspire and excite people to be part of, drive, and embed, the change?

Organizational Culture can grow and change in positive ways starting by first understanding the current state, then taking proactive and engaging steps to intentionally evolve culture to fit the organization’s vision and belief structure.

In this talk I will be exploring how we have embraced the principles of agility, the intent of learning organisations and the power of communities to embody our guiding principles. Shaping a more empowered, data driven and decisive culture alongside ever improving processes and with ever increasing delegated decision making.

Reflections on growing a culture in a large organisation

In this talk becoming forever employable. Jeff shares his story of how the ideas behind agility, product thinking, design thinking, lean UX can be applied to professional development and our career growth and we are building a reality where opportunities continue to find us.

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Talking about Psychological Safety has become ubiquitous. You cannot attend a meeting without hearing someone refer to it. In some organisations, it's at risk of becoming weaponised - if we talk about it enough, we don't have to actually put in the hard work.

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After this session, you will have a new approach to partnering to build a stronger team.

Leadership will make it or break it.
Culture is the biggest lever to delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.

Business agility is no longer a luxury. In today’s market, companies that can’t adapt quickly to changing circumstances simply won’t survive. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how quickly the entire enterprise context can change.

Somewhere between concept and context, lies confusion. We’ll be sharing our approach to evolving Ways of Working at Nationwide, how we’re demystifying business agility for teams and our key levers for success.

Smart risk taking is becoming increasingly important for effective enterprise transformation. A key component is ensuring organisations have the understanding of how to drive key decisions with data and quantitative thinking. Harnesssing the power of the data & analytics (D&A) community through agile ways of working can accelerate this change.

In this talk, we will explore why outcomes and high-performing teams matter more than ever to support the drive towards business agility and ultimately, keeping the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Every dev team has a dream. A dream to be a high performing team delivering quality code at speed. A dream to be flexible, to meet user requirements and not get weighed down in technical debt. In this workshop, we will share with you our 5 key takeaways from the OKRS framework which helped us meet our dream to write better code in a shorter amount of time.

Once so often it makes sense to repeat the basics: Using the CAMS acronym Patrick Debois will explain how devsecops is build upon the core tenets of devops, requires the same mindset and approach and ultimately forms a consistent feedback channel for the business on overcoming yet another bottleneck: security. Coming to a mature devops organisation near you, sooner rather then later.

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In this war story I will talk about our journey and approach to transforming how our product and platform teams significantly increased flow, reduced handoffs and shortened feedback loops whilst increasing quality, security and compliance.

DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering: how they are different, how they are the same, and why they matter from the perspective continuous improvement and respect for people.

This presentation provides an illustration of the VWFS UK Cloud platform, its reason for life and how we are looking to solve the issues we experience. The presentation will also include a short demo to showcase the platform’s capability

Any organisational transformation requires a business case and, in these times, the business case needs to be compelling.

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In this talk, Toby Corballis discusses how and why leaders can use Agile for sensemaking during unprecedented times of high uncertainty.

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