Failure is not an option

About this Tutorial

For many organisations, failure is something to be avoided. Poor results are frowned upon; people don't take risks, and they hide undesirable results for fear of being blamed. But it’s these failures that generate new information from which we can learn, and this learning is what leads to organisational improvement and long-term success. This session will explore why failure is not an option, but a necessity, and how we can make failure a friend and not a foe.

About the Speaker

Karl Scotland helps businesses to become learning-oriented organisations. Over the last 15 years, he has been an advocate of lean and agile approaches. He has worked with companies such as the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL and Kellogg.

During that time, he has been a pioneer of using kanban systems and strategy deployment for product development. He is a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being an active community member and a regular conference speaker.

Karl was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.

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