
Continuous Strategy Engineering—Beyond Waterfall Planning With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Published: December 9, 2025
Duration: 14:04
BONUS: Continuous Strategy Engineering—Beyond Waterfall Planning With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel Strategy Professors Are Decades Behind
"The professors of strategy have no clue as to what Evo is. They are locked in decades ago, waterfall mode."
Tom's analysis is stark: the people teaching strategy in business schools haven't undergone the same agile transformation that software development experienced. They still think in terms of 5-year plans that get tested at the end—a guaranteed recipe for discovering failure too late. The alternative? Decompose any large strategy into weekly value delivery steps. And if you thin...