The Leanpub Podcast 🎙️ Feat. Romano Roth, Author of The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization

Episode Details

In this episode of the Leanpub Podcast, Len Epp interviews Romano Roth, author of The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization.

Roth, a leading thinker in cybernetic transformation, discusses how enterprises can evolve beyond the "fast team, slow enterprise" dilemma that hinders large organizations. He explains how principles of platform engineering, agile scaling, and DevOps integration can help companies become adaptable, resilient, and sustainable in an era of rapid change.

The conversation also covers organizational design, the role of feedback loops in business systems, and how leaders can prepare their companies to thrive in a cybernetic future.

This interview was recorded on August 21, 2025.

About the Book

The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization is your comprehensive operating system for navigating the next era of business transformation. If your company has adopted Agile and DevOps but still struggles to adapt at scale, fast teams, slow enterprise, this book is for you.
This is not another Agile, DevOps, or AI playbook in isolation. Instead, it introduces a unified cybernetic operating model, one designed for continuous learning, AI-augmented intelligence, and fast feedback loops across strategy, product, technology, and operations. You'll learn to sense, learn, and adapt at enterprise scale.

With forewords by Prof. Dr. Oliver Gilbert and Prof. Markus Dobbelfeld, this book bridges academic insight and industry experience, linking vision with execution across leadership, technology, and organizational design.

Why It’s Different
Most transformation efforts bolt new tools onto outdated structures. The Cybernetic Enterprise rebuilds the structure itself. It helps you design a feedback-driven, AI-augmented organization where learning compounds and change becomes a competitive advantage.

Build the enterprise you want to work in. Shape the system you want to lead. Become the organization the future demands. Your cybernetic journey starts now.

About the Author

Romano Roth is a pioneering thought leader in cybernetic transformation, enterprise evolution, and platform engineering, with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. As the Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation at Zühlke, Romano shapes the global strategy and service portfolio for cybernetic enterprises, platform engineering, AI integration, and cloud solutions. His visionary approach redefines how organizations innovate, adapt, and scale in industries such as finance, insurance, cybersecurity, energy, healthcare, and aerospace.

In a world reshaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Romano believes the key to resilience and competitiveness lies in the transformation toward the Cybernetic Enterprise, a new operating model driven by feedback loops, AI-augmented workflows, and self-learning systems that place customer success at the center. His work empowers companies to continuously create value by harmonizing people, processes, technology, and AI.

Romano began his journey at Zühlke 23 years ago, evolving from software engineer and architect to trusted consultant, and now to his leadership role in cybernetic transformation. His passion for value creation through automation and quality led him from engineering into the DevOps movement and further into the forefront of enterprise transformation.

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