The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

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It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results.

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Matt Coulter receiving the Now Go Build from Werner Vogel at AWS re:Invent Developer Community and CDK Patterns What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team. They want to contribute to producing visible, tangible results. They want to feel excitement of being involved in something that just flat-out works . […] Network effects represent the demand-side economies of scale. The Flywheel Effect and Network Effects commonly occur together. Network effects almost always lead to or create a Flywheel Effect, but the Flywheel Effect can occur where network effects do not, as we’ve seen in the previous examples. Network Effects are the most powerful source of the Flywheel Effect. This is because Network Effects (past a certain tipping point, especially when combined with virality), can be auto-catalytic. DirectionThis is because Network Effects (past a certain tipping point, especially when combined with virality), can be auto-catalytic.

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Organizations that recognize this will create a space for innovation. Small successes will breed larger success and spread through the organization like wildfire. This power and momentum will increase, and the path forward will become smoother. 9. The Value Flywheel Effect It’s a silly analogy, granted. But I’m using it to highlight a very important finding from our research. We kept thinking that we’d find “the one big thing,” the miracle moment that defined breakthrough. We even pushed for it in our interviews. But the good-to-great executives simply could not pinpoint a single key event or moment in time that exemplified the transition.Mark McCann: My name is Mark McCann. I’m also an engineer and cloud architect, and I’m passionately pursuing serverless-first and engineering excellence. It’s worth looking at the map that is used for Wardley Mapping at Map Camp. It is one of Simon (Wardley’s) maps. Simon has been using this map for a long time to talk about the evolution of Cloud up onto Serverless. It’s at least five years old. Simon Wardley’s Map showing the evolution of compute to cloud

The Value Flywheel Effect by David Anderson, Mark McCann

Problem prevention culture is critical. But one of the significant challenges is that silent excellence can be recognized or unrewarded. So you must be careful that you have enough people who understand what good looks like, reward it, and realize it appropriately. You don’t want to fall into a superhero ‘save the day’ mindset! If you invested in problem prevention culture, superheroes do not need to come in and save the day! This is the Value Flywheel Effect, when the business and technology strategies power and drive each other, turning the organization into a sense-making machine with the ability to easily pivot to the challenges of today and to whatever the next great transformation will be. I think we ended up in a good place, but as always I’d love to hear if you think I’m wrong on any of this so I don’t stay quite as ignorant as I am now. What is the Flywheel Effect? Definition…?

This post is a transcript of the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit presentation by David Anderson and Mark McCann. You can view the full video here.