Where Great Ideas, Come To Life With Technology. In Weeks, Not Years: ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery while advocating for positive social change. It works with people and organizations that have ambitious missions - whether they are in the commercial, social or government sectors. ThoughtWorks set up smart teams who love challenges and think disruptively to help its clients succeed. Its agile development tools help its clients continuously improve and deliver quality software.

ThoughtWorks is focused on helping industry improve, and believe in sharing what it learns. The company does this by writing books, blogging, running events, talking at conferences, and championing open source. It is strong believers in the power of software and technology as tools for social change. Through its Social Impact Program, ThoughtWorks collaborate with organizations with a humanitarian mission and broad reach, helping them use technology to make an impact.

ThoughtWorks’ Services: Complex Problems, Faster Results

Always inventing, always delivering

Whether you’re driving your market forward, or worried about being overtaken, ThoughtWorks believe you don’t have to choose between inventiveness and reliable delivery. It always brings a measure of both. Together it will create a new future, and deliver it in the right way, at the right time.

ThoughtWorks brings strategy, portfolio management, and product design, combined with digital engineering excellence. It helps its clients become data-led businesses. ThoughtWorks create products that their customers love. In weeks, not years.

It brings cutting edge technology and techniques to the enterprise. Sometimes ThoughtWorks invent those things, sometimes it is part of the developing ecosystem. In years gone by, it has been pioneers in bringing Java, .NET, RoR, TDD to early adopting enterprises. More recently, ThoughtWorks has brought - and literally written the book for - Infrastructure as Code, Microservices, Lean Enterprise, and Agile IT Org Design.

ThoughtWorks helped guardian.co.uk build the platform for one of the world’s largest online news sites. Its partnership with one of Australia’s largest financial services brands has seen the launch of several award-winning mobile products and the replacement of their entire core banking system, all while transforming their way of working across Australia, India, and China.

Its work with Xenex has led to software advances for germ-zapping robots that keep hospitals cleaner. Together with Domino’s ThoughtWorks built an award-winning social platform, Pizza Mogul, which lets their customers get a share of the profits - creating the ultimate loyalty.

Giving an unfair advantage

IDEAS: Helping you to confront the unknown and move forward. So that you can experiment and move fast, ThoughtWorks use technologies and practices that adapt as it goes.

TECH: With its roots in enterprise systems and agile delivery, ThoughtWorks have been at the forefront of some of the industry’s biggest changes. It is here to bring the technology that’s at the company’s core, to yours.

NOW: Technology increasingly is the business. Disrupt yourself or be disrupted. For over 20 years ThoughtWorks has been helping clients think bigger and deliver better.

People & Culture

Wherever ThoughtWorks is in the world, it shares the same cultural characteristics and imperatives. It comes to work as itself. It enjoys each other’s company. It values honesty and transparency. Appearances and backgrounds aren’t important to us; ideas and doing the right thing are.

ThoughtWorks abhor and reject discrimination and inequality and promote diversity in all its forms. The company proudly, passionately and actively strives to make both ThoughtWorks and the industry more reflective and inclusive of the society that it serves.

• Do the right thing
• Attitude, aptitude, and integrity
• Service to others and society over self
• Solidarity over charity
• Serve holistic goals over achieving targets
• Personal and organizational transparency
• Curiosity, creativity, and passion
• Fail fast and publish mistakes
• Intolerant of intolerance
• No jerks
• High values alignment, loosely coupled

Greet the Kingpin

Guo Xiao, President, and Chief Executive Officer: Guo joined ThoughtWorks in 1999 as a Programmer. He spent many years programming in various languages and helping customers develop software products. Around 2004, he went back to China and helped to establish and grow the China business unit for ThoughtWorks, providing services for both local and global customers. During that period, Guo spent more time developing operation, strategy and leadership skills and served as the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks China. In 2011, Guo took over the Managing Director role of the Asia Pacific Region and served as First among Equals of the Service and Operation Group, working with the global leadership team to grow the Professional Service business across the globe. Early 2013, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of ThoughtWorks and has been serving the company in that role since then. Guo is currently based in Chicago and travel a lot.

His favorite thing to do is reading books, and, if he is not traveling, watching his 8-year-old son playing ice hockey.

“Our mission is to better humanity through software and help drive the creation of a socially and economically just world. We bring together the most capable, driven and passionate people.”