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I agree and not every enterprise need to act like one, the risks are very different

I just learned a cool term - intrepreneurship. That's how enterprises act like entrepreurial startups.

No enterprise can act like a startup - but they can take characteristics and apply them...

but what are the most important characteristics?

enterprise have an imperative to start acting more like startups for business innovation or risk being uberized

curious @HelenRanger4 what characteristics would you like to replicate?

The grass is always greener as they say – but sometime you need grass and sometimes you need pavement. They key is to have the methods and tools in place to do this.

in every enterprise, there are portions of the business where they have to be very market responsive ... while the traditional well understood parts can go slower

hammer and nails, the key is knowing what you are ;-)

But how do you graft those startup practices onto the enteprise tree?

Characteristics: collaboration, embracing change and innovation, experimentation...

almost seems today that you are seeing enterprises acting like collections of loosely coupled startups

It's important to have processes that allow all the parts to go as fast as business needs

Agree with Dr. Diaz....never all or nothing....Hybrid gives you the best of both worlds.

what every enterprise DOES need to do is be prepared to be disrupted, and being capable of responding quickly

Only acting like a startup in one location is limiting – it’s about scaling devops across geographies and closer to your clients. I do not know a startup that does not want to be an enterprise!

many enterprise execs who toured startup UrbanCode liked the collaborative spaces, team morale, and agile methods

@angelluisdiaz the key to an enterprise being more like a startup starts with changing culture plus processes, tools, methods

I think experimentation is key....but harder said than done

Culture is key to make the transition, breaking down those silos and providing tools to support the teams

@rreinitz definitely need to have some bulls in the china shop to break down ossified processes that inhibit innovation/experimentation

@rreinitz this is where you need strong exec buy-in and support - to help with the process

@christo4ferris agreed Chris on exec support key - for many companies physically separating a team to free them to innovate is essential

@Robservatory enterprises have to become loosely coupled organizations themselves, in order to move at speed. Otherwise their internal monolithic process will eventually kill them.

At IBM we combined the best of the open communities, pair programing, design, agile and devops with CI/CD – Companies large and small can scale this method as needed!

Make releasing like breathing...

@HelenRanger4 So is it all about release speed then?

That would be the practice only. The movement is much more

This allows companies to act as they need to meet their clients’ needs – one size does not fit all – but a method for devops needs to span beyond a single location.

not about release speed per se... but it is about reducing the time to business value and continuously adapting

Chris what else is there in the movement?

Reduce Lead Times, experiment with changes to see what value it drives

we have found large companies set up small innovation teams to try out the new techniques, and then want to figure out how to scale it to the rest of their teams

"releasing like breathing" requires such great testing, mttr, that yes...

Not all about speed - also consistency, reliability and taking innovation to the user

It's about delivering the right function based on user feedback

- Agility and collaboration. Everyone does everything and just does what needs to get done without unnecessary red tape or bureacracy.

time-to-value, not time-to-delivery of a feature/function... so not just about speed

Continuous feedback i believe would also be important

The amazing thing about the time we live in instant feedback – the right methods and tools let you morph to the situation at hand and as @hoardinginfo says – disrupt vs. be disrupted.

Have the ability to scale up as needed and ensure security too

Scale and efficiency. Speed is good, but it's more about scaling to meet demand from increasing numbers of apps (especially on the #mobile side)

Enterprises want to innovate at the speed of a startup.

.@ashimmy @DibbeEdwards shared some thoughts on this for her teams at IBM. http://www.slideshar...

@LazzaroChris innovate yes, but can they hope to?

Innovation occurs when enterprises reduce the time it takes for an idea to reach users