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Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

How To Break Role Divisions

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Technology, Careers, Business

4.558 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with Hao Xu, Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks China, about how to break down role divisions within a team and create collaborative environments. We touch on how economic theory and management theory created the divided, hierarchical workplace, and why today’s knowledge work is poorly suited to these structures. We close by discussing various techniques, such as capability radars and onboarding practices, that help to break down role divisions in product teams.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I have how to with me. Welcome. Maybe can you introduce yourself in a few

0:06.2

sentence. Hi, my name is Vincent Xu or Hao Xu, if you want to call me Chinese name.

0:12.4

I'm working for a thorough of China for 10 years and I'm not the current head of technology

0:18.5

of China. Yeah, and currently my primarily focus is to help us to develop a solution to support the

0:25.6

China local market.

0:27.2

So that is pretty much about me.

0:29.5

Yeah.

0:29.8

What is the need of the Chinese local market?

0:33.9

Oh, that is kind of interesting because it's a things we have so many different

0:37.7

companies there. One of the urgent challenger here is like you know the internet company.

0:43.6

So they're building really cool technology and they're building a really cool product and

0:47.4

people are using their product. So all the traditional like industry is so it's like

0:52.3

bank, like financing institution or like retelling, like this area,

0:59.2

people thinking, okay, we can borrow this idea from those internet companies to actually

1:04.4

building a better and a stronger business. So that is one of the really hot topic currently in China. So and we actually

1:14.1

building two products slash like solution to helping them. One is called the P2P. It's a peer-to-peer

1:21.0

lending system. So basically the financial institution, so they can help people fundraising online for a level

1:29.1

whatever purpose. So another one is actually called the O2O solution. So that is a

1:35.3

promote focus on online to offline. So if you have an offline like retelling store, how can

1:42.4

you have a online channel, how help you to bring more

1:45.6

users and how you're going to better leverage the online channel to manage your customer,

1:50.4

like those two are the current product and solution we're working on. Okay. So what is the

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