Hey, this is Roland from the What's Your Baseline? Podcast and J.M. was also happy to be here.

Yeah. We're looking forward to our next season, season eight of the What's Your Baseline podcast. Who believes that?

So, J.M. Tell me, what's in stock for season eight?

Well, we've listened to you. You've left us amazing feedback all over the internet, and we're going to make things shorter, snappier, more visual and most importantly for our season eight, forward-looking.

We will spend 2025 talking about the future of process and architecture because we know that you want to see what's coming down the road to be able to prepare yourself, your practices and to create the right kind of value at the right time for your organization.

That sounds super great, J.M. And with that, I wish you all will join in the next episode of the What's Your Baseline Podcast because season eight will be great!

The end is near … no, not what you are thinking.

2024 comes to a close in about two weeks, and we also end Season 7 of the podcast. And a lot has happened — in the industry, with tools, changes in companies and the life of people in our small community.

Tune in to learn about our thoughts about what we’ve seen in the last year and an outlook for 2025. And there is also an interesting announcement in it 😉

In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we talk about:

• Mergers & Acquisitions (and why they won’t stop in 2025)
• The use cases that we’ve seen the most
• Professional lessons learned
• Personal lessons learned
• Content creation in general, and What’s Your Baseline? specifically
• Other projects, like J-M’s BPM Walks or Roland’s The Digital Formula podcast
• Our outlook on 2025 for the industry and our podcast
• Roland’s “big announcement” and the request for people who like to help

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How do you bridge the gaps between Strategy and Execution, and how do you evolve execution as strategy pivots? That are the questions that are the topic of our podcast this week - the first of two episodes of a collaboration with the "Strateg-ish" podcast, run by our friends Craig Overmars and Dan Marquez, who has been a guest on our show before.

This episode looks at strategy with the perspective that an architect might have - how is it done, what are the outcomes that one can align to, etc. In the second episode, which will be out on the Strateg-ish channel soon, we discuss the opposite side of this: what can strategists expect and what do they have to know when they are doing their work and expect it to be implemented.

Both, Dan and Craig, have a background in strategy and worked in various consulting organizations and are now working in this field at Google.

In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:

• Dan's and Craig's backgrounds
• What is "strategy" anyway (definition)
• How can it be developed in rapid-pace organizations?
• The process of strategy development
• The kind of artifacts that one can expect as an outcome of the development
• The typical timeframe of a strategy development project

Craig and Dan can be found on LinkedIn (of course) and their "Strategish" podcast can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3h5l2eefFGb9YtPvUVnsDn?si=f8c690a4b197408a.

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