Formula X: How to Reach Extreme Acceleration in Your Organization

by Jurriaan Kamer, Rini Van Solingen

Formula X is a business fable about speed, leadership and organizational change.

Many organizations struggle to adapt to our fundamentally faster world. For companies and professionals, it often feels like they have to make an ultimate choice: quality or speed. But speed does not have to result in bad work―and Formula 1 motor racing proves this.

Within the two weeks between races, they perform the enormous job of analyzing all data, designing and producing new components, shipping, assembling and testing. How do they do that? And what can we learn from F1 in applying these lessons to our workplaces?

Formula X tells the story of Ronald Park, director of a large kitchen manufacturer. He will lose his job if he fails to significantly reduce the delivery time of his kitchens to under two weeks. As he takes up this challenge, he manages to get his organization closer to this goal, step by step. He receives unexpected help from the team captain of a well-known Formula 1 team.

Ronald successfully implements several F1 lessons in his company. But just when Ronald thinks he made it, things change to the worse. How will he manage? How will he keep his company alive?

In Formula X you will learn the secrets to reaching extreme acceleration in your organization!

Genres: Management, Business

202 pages, Hardcover

First published June 8, 2019

Reviews

[Maarten Koller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read the dutch version: Deze was heel goed. Het eerste deel maakt de theorie & ideeën duidelijk in roman-vorm, wat dus lekker wegleest. Het tweede deel zet deze nog eens kort uiteen met wat handige trucjes om ze goed te kunnen onthouden en refereert weer terug naar het verhaal. Mooie vergelijking met hoe het er in de Formule 1 aan toe gaat.
Als je met autonome teams bezig bent is dit een must read, als je in eentje zit is het ook goed om even te lezen, want waarschijnlijk valt er nog wel wat te verbeteren.
Na het lezen van die boek is mij 'Het Doel' aangeraden van Eliyahu Goldratt, een boek uit 1986. Toen ik daarin begon voelde het direct alsof ik een kopie las. Het Doel heb ik nog even niet uit, dus een volledige vergelijking kan ik niet maken.
Auteur Rini van Solingen heeft ook key note presentaties online staan, erg de moeite waard. Daarin bespreekt hij meer de theorie en die had ik graag ook teruggezien in dit boek. Zou eigenlijk daarom 4.5 sterren willen geven.

[Mauro Fernández · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insightful and clear

This book appears at the right time that I was working as a researcher in a organizational design project. 100% recommended for people that want to propuse and implement strategies at their teams

[Martijn · Rating 4 out of 5]

🥥 The book in a nutshell

Formula X is the fictional tale of the agile transformation of Kitchen Quick, a company that sells, builds, and installs kitchens. Ronald, the managing director of Kitchen Quick, is tasked by Hank, the company's founder, to increase the speed of end-to-end kitchen sales from twelve to two weeks. Ronald manages to realize this transformation by applying the Faster Model: a combination of Agile, change management, and leadership lessons after being inspired by the fictional Formula 1 Faster Racing Team.

✨ Impressions
* Easy to read
* Practical and assumes no knowledge of Agile: refreshing for those puzzled by what Agile is and why it matters
* The application of agile ways of working in Formula 1 are fascinating

🤷 Who should read it
* Anyone who wants to demystify the meanings of Agile
* Anyone working in IT, software development who is also interested in F1
* Anyone setting out on an agile transformation and who wonders how to do so practically

⭐ Overall rating
* 4.5/5

[Quinton · Rating 5 out of 5]

The world is changing at an increasing rate but our business and management models are still rooted in a previous era which no longer serves us. Not only is it killing our businesses, but it is killing the human spirit for the people working inside them. It is time for a change and the story, ideas and method in this book are pioneering the way ahead. Read it, study it, and most of all, do it.

This is the first business novel that I know of to cover Teal. I'm not typically a fan of business novels, but there are a few I like and this one made the ranks. Great story, great ideas. Kudos to the author.

[Shawn Mcdowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Formula X

I really enjoyed reading this ebook and what it has to teach about running a business and or company better. It is well worth the time to read this ebook.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

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