Any tech is well familiar with the frustration that, in corporate culture, there is often a long chain-of-blame, cascading down from corporates to the average team – hiding behind finance.  At its worst it becomes a black hole where great ideas and initiatives silently dissolve.   But are things starting to change….?  Is change really possible?

In this talk Katherine suggests it might, and explores how she is seeing an effect of the ‘Continuousness-trend’ (continuous improvement, delivery, innovation etc etc) and how the cultural change we sometimes see might be down to an effect she calls ‘Continuous-Consequence’.

However, she warns that in her experience this is a double edged sword: although ‘Continuousness’ brings in a useful data view of ‘cause and effect’, in large corporations it can create hell-politics upstream that stick like mud and, surprisingly can sometimes cause unexpected negative outcomes.  Its not all rainbows!

So - in our corner of the world, how could we avoid the mud and how could we capitalize on the cultural effect ‘Continuousness’ has to our team’s advantage?  

In this talk, Katherine draws from her practical, recent on-the-ground experiences in multi-national large corporates, including a tough 200 people IT departmental merger to explain what she learned and what might help others – and suggests some Eastern Philosophical models and lenses she found useful.