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People Due Diligence
Most companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, dealmakers simply miss or underestimate the…
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!
AKF often finds itself required to act as a marriage counselor trying to improve the relationship between technology and business ‘spouses’. In fact, we rarely…
Organization
Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization
Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization
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Enabling TTM With Contributor Model Teams
Enabling TTM With Contributor Model Teams
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The Difference between Science, Engineering and Programmers and What it Means to You
Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians
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Why CTOs Fail and What CEOs and CTOs Can Do About It
The rate of involuntary turnover for the senior executive running technology and engineering in a company is unfortunately high, with most senior technology…
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Achieving Results, Culture, and the AKF Equation
We can tell a lot about a company within the first hour or so of any discussion. Consider the following statement fragments:
Organization
Avoiding the Policy Black Hole
During due diligence and in-depth engagements, we often hear feedback from client employees that policies either do not exist - or are not followed.
Architecture
Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It
The Law that Almost Wasn’t
Organization
Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses…
Organization
What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore
We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners,…
Organization
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Tech
We all suffer from various cognitive biases, those mental filters or lenses that alter or warp the reality around us. With the election of 2016, one particular…