Stephen Denning

Stephen Denning

Stephen Denning was born in 1944 and is currently 82 years old. Stephen Denning was born in Sydney, Australia.

Stephen Denning was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied psychology and law at Sydney University. After receiving a post-graduate law degree at Oxford University, he joined the World Bank, where he spent several decades working in different management capacities, including Program Director of Knowledge Management from 1996 to 2000.

Stephen consults with organizations in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia on the topics of management, leadership, business narrative, and innovation.

In 2000, Teleos named him as one of the world’s most admired knowledge leaders. Then in 2003, he was ranked as one of the world’s top 200 business gurus by Larry Prusak and Tom Davenport’s book, What’s the Big Idea?.

Since 2011, he’s been writing a popular Leadership column for Forbes.com. He’s published over 600 articles on the Creative Economy, with over 6 million visitors and over 15 million page views.

From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of the board of directors of Scrum Alliance, a rapidly growing association of 460,000 members with the mission of transforming the world of work. He hosts a monthly webinar series with world-renowned management thought leaders.

Stephen has written business books on leadership storytelling, leadership, and management, as well as a volume of poetry and a novel.

The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done helps readers to master the three laws of Agile Management (network, team, and customer). Overcome constraints, embrace the new mindset, employ meaningful metrics, make the whole organization Agile, and so much more. With this new breakthrough approach, even global giants can learn how to act entrepreneurially. Their future depends on it.

More value out of less work. An unstoppable business revolution is underway, and it’s Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn how to connect everybody and everything, all the time. They can deliver intimate, instant, and frictionless value on a large scale.

Agile started emerging many decades back; however, it really only took off in the software development industry. Sparking dramatic improvements in innovation, quality, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement is spreading quickly throughout all sorts of companies. It enables a team, an enterprise, or a unit to nimbly upgrade and adapt products and services to meet rapidly changing tech and customer needs. The process is applicable anywhere, as companies like Spotify do not need to be born Agile. Even centuries-old Barclays is making the transition and is reaping rewards.

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