LESS! : Essays on Business Transformation
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Twelve essays on creating hyper competitive business organizations by thought leaders in Beyond Budgeting, Radical Management, business strategy, Agile, Lean, Systems Thinking and complexity sciences. The LESS! authors are: Dan Bergh Johnsson Bjarte Bogsnes Peter Bunce Steve Denning Ola Ellnestam Håkan Forss Brian Hawkes Maarit Laanti Henrik Mårtensson (also Chief Editor) Karl Scotland Ari-Pekka Skarp James Sutton

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Bjarte Bogsnes is the chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table Europe and the author of Implementing Beyond Budgeting. Bjarte is also VP of Performance Management Development at Statoil.
Dr Peter Bunce is a co-founder and director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT). BBRT is an independent international shared learning collaborative helping organizations to be more empowered and adaptive. His background is in manufacturing engineering. Dr. Bunce is a co-author of the book The Leader’s Dilemma.
Brian Hawkes is a freelance finance director and a member of the CFO Panel for the International Private Equity firm 3i. He has a long international career in finance specializing in high growth businesses. In 2005 he founded Foresite SPA to develop radically new tools to support the emerging leadership and management philosophies that this work environment demands.
Steve Denning is the author six business books, including most recently “The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing The Workplace For the 21st Century” (Jossey-Bass, 2010). He is a former director of the World Bank. In November 2000, he was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).
Dan Bergh Johnsson (Technology Evangelist at Omegapoint AB): Agile affectionado with a broad interest in software development - from code quality, through architecture and project management, to how to build organizations. He considers "a more human way to work" as the heart of agile and lean. Dan is also a recurrent speaker at conferences, co-author of "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know", and author of blog "Dear Junior - letters to a junior programmer".
Maarit Laanti has been working in the software industry for 20 years, most of which she has spent at Nokia, leading software projects and teams. Maarit holds an M.Sc. Engineering degree from Helsinki University of Technology, and at the time of writing she is finishing her PhD on Agile Methods in large scale projects. She has led Nokia’s initiative to adopt and use Agile methods since January 2007. She currently works at Nokia as an as an Agile and Lean Coach.
Håkan Forss is a Lean/Agile coach with great passion for the values and tools in Lean and Agile. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Håkan’s background is in system development and system architecture with a focus on the .NET platform. Håkan is the creator of Visual WIP, an open source work-in-process visualization tool for Team Foundation Server.
James Sutton’s passion is for unleashing the power and joy of human creativity in the development of systems. He is a chief software-systems architect whose designs and processes have consistently quadrupled productivity compared to company and industry norms, accompanied by a ten-times reduction in defects compared to normal. His book “Lean Software Strategies” won the 2007 Shingo Prize. He is an INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional, and is CEO of The Jubata Group. He is co-founder and President of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.
Ola Ellnestam likes to combine people, technology and business, which is best done with simple means and flexible processes. More than that he likes to share his knowledge and experiences because that’s how new insights are created according to him. Ola is co-founder of Agical, an Agile software development consultancy.
Ari-Pekka Skarp has been working in the SW development business since 1999. He has held many different roles from SW developer to a variety of management positions. Currently he works for Nokia as a coach and organizational developer. He also runs a small one-man-business providing process consultation and work supervision to professionals in different fields of practice.
Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with over 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last 10 years he has been successfully applying Agile methods, and most recently has been a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development. Currently an Agile Coach with Rally Software in the UK, Karl is a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, and has previously championed Agile and Lean Thinking with the BBC, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting.