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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes.

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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. Direct mapping between delivery team metrics and business outcomes is necessary to support data-driven decision-making and inform strategy.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. Some of them would take this report and turn it into their roadmap on what to get right first.

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A 3x3x3 Perspective for getting your Vision, Strategy, and Product aligned

Leanstack

I find the Golden Circle is just as applicable when deconstructing or charting a new idea or venture — mapping quite nicely to the vision, strategy, and product pyramid that you’ve probably also run into. First, get your why in order “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

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Find your Marketplaces; they can be the secret to your success.

Ecosystems4Innovating

You have Amazon, Alibaba, Airbnb, Salesforce, Booking, eBay, LinkedIn, etc. The question you might ask: Is the Marketplace the bottom-up adoption strategy or does the ecosystem and platform drive down to provide the “best” environment for a thriving marketplace? Just reflect on some of the most prominent marketplaces.

Design 64
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Swimming along a road in a flood of digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

We need to create a digital transformation strategy, a clear roadmap and build the business case as it is going to be, well, umm…… transformational. Forming a strategy, roadmap and business case needs real considerations. Finally, one book written by David L. So I need to pick it apart.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. But the new executive insisted that SCRUM had to be done by-the-book. Where did Agile come from?

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