Marko Taipale

Marko Taipale

I am solving two challenges in the world:

1) Help companies to find what are the services/products worth enough to be develop (aka lean startup / design thinking)

2) Help companies to figure out how to get those services done effectively (aka agile at scale, business agility)

Accomplishments:
– Facilitated accelerator programs generating tens of validated ideas for global companies and helped their “Growth Boards” to act as internal investors.
– Coached GE FastWorks (Lean Startup) projects that generated new business for the company.
– Coached scaling of GE HealthCloud from 1 team to 40 teams in 6 countries and delivering to market. This enabled the business to reach out for 30 BUSD market.
– Coached multiple GEHC programs to improve release cadence.
– Helped GEHC Budapest to establish a value stream based management structures for faster decision making.
– Developed a consumer portal Nextdoor.fi from concept to cash and eventually selling the IPRs
– Mentored a software product company to validate a new business model for a new product concept in 2 months (Finnish Deloitte TOP 10 growth company)
– Helped a international online gaming company to improve time-to-market from 24 months to 3 months
– Consulted a energy company to purchase aprocess control system and they got the value they expected with 10% of the planned investment
– Consulted a software product company to save 1.3 Meur annually in management and administration and improve quality by 4000% (from 1500 errors to 30 errors for a release)
– My company Huitale implemented first continuous delivery in Finland (2007). Capability included a way of developing new features from idea to production in 8 days, releasing multiple times a day and real-time business analytics.
– Consulted agile public ICT procurement for multiple clients enabling less risky investments
– Facilitated service design workshops resulting service innovations that saved money, time and effort for public national ICT services(Digabi)