It’s natural to associate the idea of a technology company with giants like Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft, or with substantial scientific innovation ventures like NASA or the biotechnology consortium responsible for the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines. Beyond these, however, countless companies around the world create advanced technology, and, for many others, technology permeates...
Without collaboration by a diverse group of people at all hierarchical levels of a technology company, complex tasks cannot be executed, and innovation is hampered. Equally decisive are the diversity of ideas on a team and psychological safety, so that everyone can express themselves without fear or repression. While it is urgent that every company...
A platform is a system that can be used in more than one context. For example, Google initially wanted to build a search engine. But it didn’t just develop a search engine, it built a reusable platform instead. Google engineers wrote a system for code review, a generic system for testing, a system for deploying...