Building a culture of innovation

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Thoughtworks regularly emphasises the importance of culture in building and maintaining high-quality software when working with clients. So, for episode 100 of the Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, we wanted to reflect on how the organization — and its leaders — has gone about trying to build a culture of innovation over the last couple of decades. Featuring CTO Rebecca Parsons and Chief Strategy Officer Chad Wathington, this episode offers an insight into some the successes, failures, and characters that have shaped Thoughtworks over the years.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. I am one of your regular host, Neil Ford,
0:10.7	and I'm joined with one of our relatively newer regular hosts, Brigita. Hi, Brigita. Hi, Neil. This is Begita
0:18.7	Bukkla. I'm a technical principal at ThoughtWorks out of our Berlin-Germany
0:22.1	office. And while she's a very new host, we're joined today by one of our other regular hosts,
0:30.5	but as a guest today and someone who's been at ThoughtWorks for a very long time, and it's frankly
0:35.6	a little bit shocking that he hasn't been on a podcast before now. But this is sort of a special event podcast because this is officially
0:43.4	episode number 100 of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast, which is shocking to all of us involved,
0:51.4	probably as much as to those of you who are listening to this podcast,
0:55.6	that we've had this going for four years now.
0:58.8	And we thank all of you as our regular listeners, which has been awesome.
1:02.4	But one of the things that we've never talked about is, how does something like this podcast
1:07.2	come about within a consulting company like ThoughtWorks. And so we thought today we would do
1:13.9	sort of a deep dive on innovation at ThoughtWorks. And so I'll let our two guests introduce themselves.
1:21.1	One of them is another of our regular host, Rebecca Parsons, who's also in her role today as
1:27.3	the CTO of ThoughtWorks. Hello, everybody. This is Rebecca Parsons, who's also in her role today as the CTO of ThoughtWorks.
1:28.6	Hello, everybody. This is Rebecca Parsons, and I'm happy to be here to talk about how we've built this culture of innovation and this strange organism that is ThoughtWorks.
1:41.2	And a big contributor to that strange organism is our other guest today who's Chad Waddington.
1:46.6	Hi, Chad.
1:47.2	Hi, I'm Chad Wattington.
1:49.2	I'm Chief Strategy Officer for ThoughtWorks.
1:51.8	I've been here about 18 years, so really happy to be on the podcast for the first time.
1:59.4	I've listened.
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