Episode Details

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.

Show Links

• Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
• Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
• Two way door decisions
• Dogs not barking.
• Weasel words.
• If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.

Contact Jana Werner

• LinkedIn: Jana Werner.

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The Cards

Here's the text of the all the cards:

Mechanism

1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
6. How can you mak