Craig Strong

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  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Volunteer Experience

  • RSPCA Graphic

    Help support the web presence for Reading and Oxon

    RSPCA

    - 4 years

    Animal Welfare

    http://rspca-reading.org.uk

  • UCL Graphic

    Guest Lecturer

    UCL

    - Present 6 months

    Education

    Industry lecturer for Masters in Technology and Business. Designing Resilient And Responsive Organisations. Exploring Product Operating Models and Successful companies design and manage their organisational structure, mechanisms and culture to innovate on new opportunities, whilst exploiting core business capabilities. Exploring the organisation as an interconnected value creation system, informing the design and management for operating model design. Includes connecting strategy to execution…

    Industry lecturer for Masters in Technology and Business. Designing Resilient And Responsive Organisations. Exploring Product Operating Models and Successful companies design and manage their organisational structure, mechanisms and culture to innovate on new opportunities, whilst exploiting core business capabilities. Exploring the organisation as an interconnected value creation system, informing the design and management for operating model design. Includes connecting strategy to execution for portfolio management, product lifecycles, networks and organisational topologies.

Publications

  • Lean Product Lifecycle

    Pearson

    The Lean Product Lifecycle is for innovators, product managers and gamechangers looking to spark sustained innovation and growth within their established companies.

    With the world changing rapidly, the ability to innovate and sustain growth is now the only competitive advantage. The Lean Product Lifecycle provides an actionable toolbox for innovative product development and incremental investment management.
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    This playbook covers all aspects of product innovation from Idea…

    The Lean Product Lifecycle is for innovators, product managers and gamechangers looking to spark sustained innovation and growth within their established companies.

    With the world changing rapidly, the ability to innovate and sustain growth is now the only competitive advantage. The Lean Product Lifecycle provides an actionable toolbox for innovative product development and incremental investment management.
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    This playbook covers all aspects of product innovation from Idea Generation, through Growth to Retire. Some of the key topics covered include :
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    Innovation Management
    Lean and agile product development and product management
    Step by step insights into the 6 stages of the product lifecyle- Idea,Explore,Validate,Grow,Sustain,Retire
    How to setup and manage product and portfolio councils with lean governance in your enterprise
    Insights on how to open up your innovation funnel
    Product experimentation and minimal viable products (MVP)
    Business model generation
    How to grow your products and sustain repeat business in a competitive market
    And much more ....

    Other authors
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Courses

  • Cynefin Framework - Cognitive Edge : Dave Snowden

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  • Mastering Beyond Budgeting - BBRT

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  • Non-Executive Director Diploma - Financial Times (Level 7)

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  • The Organisation And Knowledge - Cognitive Edge : Dave Snowden

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  • The Use Of Narrative- Cognitive Edge : Tony Quinlan

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  • Understanding Complexity - Cognitive Edge : Dave Snowden

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Honors & Awards

  • Best Innovation Culture (London)

    Market Gravity

    The Corporate Entrepreneur Awards, hosted by Market Gravity, celebrate innovation in big business, and recognise the individuals and teams behind it. This year over 100 global and market-leading brands including Coca-Cola, TSB and Standard Life entered the European awards, making it the largest pool yet. The other category finalists for Best Innovation Culture were: Unilever Foundry from Unilever; Innovate18 from Crossrail; Learning faster than the competition from William Hill Online and RWE…

    The Corporate Entrepreneur Awards, hosted by Market Gravity, celebrate innovation in big business, and recognise the individuals and teams behind it. This year over 100 global and market-leading brands including Coca-Cola, TSB and Standard Life entered the European awards, making it the largest pool yet. The other category finalists for Best Innovation Culture were: Unilever Foundry from Unilever; Innovate18 from Crossrail; Learning faster than the competition from William Hill Online and RWE Innovation Hub from RWE.

    The judges were impressed by Pearson’s level of resources, commitment and trust used to introduce this major cultural change. They also recognised the effective programmatic approach to implement the changes.

    https://www.pearson.com/news/announcements/2015/november/pearson-wins-best-innovation-culture-and-best-innovation-program.html

  • Best Innovation Program (New York)

    Market Gravity

    Pearson’s Product Lifecycle (PLC) team was recognised as exemplary corporate intrapreneurs as more than 200 business leaders and innovators gathered at 7 World Trade Centre in New York City, to celebrate the best of large business innovation and entrepreneurship.

    Startups get all the attention for innovation and cool new product launches, but the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards, hosted by Market Gravity, celebrate innovation within big businesses.

    They recognise the new products…

    Pearson’s Product Lifecycle (PLC) team was recognised as exemplary corporate intrapreneurs as more than 200 business leaders and innovators gathered at 7 World Trade Centre in New York City, to celebrate the best of large business innovation and entrepreneurship.

    Startups get all the attention for innovation and cool new product launches, but the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards, hosted by Market Gravity, celebrate innovation within big businesses.

    They recognise the new products, services and experiences disrupting traditional industries as well as the unsung heroes and teams spearheading these innovation efforts. The awards provide a much-deserved platform for celebrating the hard work required to deliver fundamental business and customer changes, often against all odds.

  • Best Card Wall - Agile-Lean Workflow

    Thought Works Studios

    Winner of Best Card Wall International Competition : http://youtu.be/GdJXbEX-DJc - http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/and-winner-best-card-wall

    Now Published In : Toolbox for the Agile Coach – Visualization Examples, How great teams visualize their work

Organizations

  • Forbes

    Forbes Technology Council Member

    - Present

    Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of elite CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Forbes, one of the most iconic media companies in the world, and the team behind YEC, one of the most world-class entrepreneurship organizations, have partnered to create a new kind of professional community for top technology executives that proactively connects them to each other as well as best-in-class resources based on their specific business needs.

  • Startup Republic

    Startups Tutor

    - Present

    Sharing knowledge, experience through tutoring and mentoring entrepreneurs to support their startup ideas. Startup Republic helps colleges & sixth forms put entrepreneurship at the heart of their strategy, to create the next generation of start ups and build an enterprising campus. Find out more by visiting : http://startuprep.org

  • The Mobile Academy with UCL

    Agile and Lean Practices Tutor

    - Present

    The Mobile Academy is a col­lab­or­a­tion between Mobile Monday London and UCL, set up to provide prac­tical learning pro­grammes for those that are working on new busi­ness ideas. Supporting the programme by offering input on Agile & Lean Practices. http://themobileacademy.org.uk

  • Agile Practitioners London

    Co-Orgnaiser

    - Present

    A free and open group to have interesting Agile and Lean discussions from industry leaders and practitioners : http://www.meetup.com/AgilePractitioners/ We now have over 1100 members across London and have executed over 40 events with some of the leading names in the Agile space.

  • BCS

    Member

    - Present

  • Agile Alliance

    Speaker at Orlando 2014

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    Read more here : http://sched.co/1hML51m This workshop looks at ways you can alter the card wall to challenge skill silos and encourage more cross-functional behaviours, and present ideas on how to gamify the card wall in order to make it fun and interactive. Using learnings from the theory of constraints, kanban, scrum, team dynamics and system thinking principles we’ll also discuss creative ways to monitor cycle time, understand progress and visualize flow to challenge team patterns…

    Read more here : http://sched.co/1hML51m This workshop looks at ways you can alter the card wall to challenge skill silos and encourage more cross-functional behaviours, and present ideas on how to gamify the card wall in order to make it fun and interactive. Using learnings from the theory of constraints, kanban, scrum, team dynamics and system thinking principles we’ll also discuss creative ways to monitor cycle time, understand progress and visualize flow to challenge team patterns, behaviours and bottlenecks.

  • Product Tank

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    http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank/events/161076602/ How do you get people to focus more on values and outcomes, actions over support? How do you get people to buy into an approach that advocates fast learning?

  • Agile Tour 2013

    Speaker

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    Video available here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/theory-constraints-agile While a team may want to improve, they often struggle with holistic solutions. This leads to local optimisations which avoid the real problem. Inspired by Eli Goldratts, Theory of Constraints, we demonstrate how applying this focusing technique to software development can help you improve with minimum cost. We explain this through practical simulations and back it up with real world evidence from our own real…

    Video available here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/theory-constraints-agile While a team may want to improve, they often struggle with holistic solutions. This leads to local optimisations which avoid the real problem. Inspired by Eli Goldratts, Theory of Constraints, we demonstrate how applying this focusing technique to software development can help you improve with minimum cost. We explain this through practical simulations and back it up with real world evidence from our own real world experience.

  • South Wales Agile Group

    Founder

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    http://www.scrumalliance.org/user_groups/164

  • Scrum Alliance Barcelona

    Speaker

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    http://www.scrumalliance.org/courses-events/events/global-gatherings/2012/barcelona-2012-global-event

  • Agile Cymru

    Co-Organiser

    July 2015 - AgileCymru.uk As the first of its kind to grace the capital of Wales, Agile Cymru is all set to inspire and educate those of the Welsh community looking for a more collaborative, flexible and responsive way of working. The event format will consist of interactive and storytelling workshops, giving first-hand advice and techniques to attendees, from industry experts and practitioners. Agile Cymru presents a unique opportunity to help teams gain actionable insights to significantly…

    July 2015 - AgileCymru.uk As the first of its kind to grace the capital of Wales, Agile Cymru is all set to inspire and educate those of the Welsh community looking for a more collaborative, flexible and responsive way of working. The event format will consist of interactive and storytelling workshops, giving first-hand advice and techniques to attendees, from industry experts and practitioners. Agile Cymru presents a unique opportunity to help teams gain actionable insights to significantly improve the way they operate, as well as help develop and nurture the agile community in Wales.

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