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Product Description EDGE: The Agile Operating Model That Will Help You Successfully Execute Your Digital Transformation “[The authors’] passion for technology allows them to recognize that for most enterprises in the 21st century, technology is THE business. This is what really separates the EDGE approach. It is a comprehensive operating model with technology at its core.” ―From the Foreword by Heidi Musser, Executive Vice President and Principal Consultant, Leading Agile; retired, Vice President and CIO, USAA Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation. Jim Highsmith is one of the world’s leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the IT department. EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities. Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thriveClear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cyclesImprove collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessaryContinually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goalsRegister your product for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details. Review “This impressive book offers a holistic set of principles and practices that will help enterprises to upgrade their innovative capabilities. With a laser focus on outcomes and value, and relying on a product mindset, lightweight governance, and adaptive leadership, the authors explain how a company can survive and thrive with an agile product portfolio in an increasingly complex environment. This book should be cherished and devoured.” –Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and Managing for Happiness “As an entrepreneur who since 2008 has been growing a bootstrapped SaaS company that transforms industrial manufacturers into digital commerce powerhouses, I am living on the edge. “But thanks to EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation, I now have a framework and vocabulary that I can use to reflect on my journey and visualize my organizational future. More importantly, knowing that the authors’ decades of experience and wisdom, encapsulated in EDGE, resonates with mine, I can confidently make this required reading by everyone at Corevist and recommend it to all of our clients who are struggling with their own digital transformations.” –Sam Bayer, CEO, Corevist “It’s refreshing to read a book that goes beyond the ‘base camp’ of agility. So often we get to Scrum or some framework and then stop. True digital transformation is much more, and this book by Highsmith, Luu, and Robinson captures what every manager needs to know if we want to scale these challenging heights. Highly recommended!” –Martyn Jones, Managing Director, SoftEd Group, New Zealand “ EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is a valuable book and an indispen