Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To survive and thrive, it’s critical that you recognize the signs of disruption and understand the necessity of adapting to these changes. For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Being a great leader requires the ability to adapt to change. Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. Breaking Down all the Silos.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Six strategies to kickstart change and innovate in uncertain times.

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Planview

MARCH 29, 2024

Traditional engineering metrics drive efficiency, not effectiveness Engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver more value, but many struggle to make impactful change. Engineering teams comprise a complex web of interdependent teams, tools, and processes. Effectiveness : Is our work valuable?

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Drag in the business context often manifests itself at the strategic level and can be experienced by such adverse indicators as sluggish market moves, inability to change direction with agility, and companywide misalignment of strategies and objectives. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In our last blog , we proposed, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink, respond, regroup, thrive pattern, and experience failure as an opportunity for change, unlearning, and re-thinking? Critical art of re-thinking. Making time and space for re-thinking. The vital role of unlearning.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Applying Design Thinking to Personal Growth and Innovation In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability to adapt and innovate is more crucial than ever, not just in the realm of product development but also in our personal and professional lives. It involves five key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Project managers face a range of challenges in their day-to-day life including poor project planning, lack of communication, and lack of accountability. A project manager should be able to effectively communicate with teams, clients, and other stakeholders involved in the project.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development. 14:00) On bad leadership behaviour and how not to fund projects. (16:00)

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. By drawing on the wisdom of their coach to help them manage and lead their people to be more effective in their jobs, and to grow and develop.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Compels Leaders to Stay Focused on Short-Term & Long-Term Growth.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Unifying the PMO and Innovation Team through ISO 56001 to Move the Business Forward. Indeed, in this age of relentless change, the last thing any enterprise wants is a free-falling portfolio of innovative projects. Now, this begs the question: what if the PMO and the Innovation Team were not extraterrestrial to one another?

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Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

Getting even more specific – quantification and qualification in Ecosystems: Common Metrics Framework: Develop a common set of innovation metrics that can be applied across diverse organizations within the ecosystem. Ecosystem Purpose: Clearly define the shared purpose and objectives of the innovation ecosystem to align diverse participants.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

I was first introduced to the principle of “Personal Responsibility” when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series. Back to Leadership Basics. Putting the maturity continuum to work.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Change is inevitable. Good leaders understand this and can efficiently adapt to changing circumstances. The more you are willing to change or compromise, the more flexible you are. For example, if your organization is making structural changes that cause a shift in work hours, being able to work a 3 p.m.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up. Within 18 months or so, they had developed a solid Innovation Skillset foundation. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset. A Great Innovation Skillset is Not Enough. And I found one.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 20, 2016

This poor strategic understanding creates a lack of alignment and directing innovation. If an organisation lacks top leadership engagement it becomes, for many, the reason why they seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity, delivering ‘simply’ incremental outcomes.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 17, 2019

One example is agility—the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions. Being agile, both internally and externally, seemed like a bulletproof way to approach things. However, we are now in a period of transformational change. Legacy Thinking—Changing Your Thinking Changes Your Results.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. How is our B2B brand dramatically changing individuals’ lives?

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So if you know that the CEO’s greatest pain is the fact that the sales team isn’t communicating with marketing or manufacturing, resulting in lower sales and poor customer experiences, then you have to look at what you’re proposing and figure out how it can ease that pain or even solve that problem. As you do this, state it clearly.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Together, they reduce the risk of failure, improve the success rate of new ideas and can help build an organisation which is more resilient to change and able to grow. What it is: One of the most challenging aspects of innovation for most companies is not the generating of ideas, or the development of new innovations.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Yet sporadic innovation is not enough to keep up with changing markets and evolving demanding customer needs. At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 10, 2023

In doing so, business leaders can then develop an Anticipatory mindset that more easily overcomes what they are afraid of before it tears them down. Failure to pre-solve problems – Problems always start as something perceived and then quickly develop into a reality. Waiting for the problem to occur leads to failure.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet.” Especially in a competitive and globalized world, where speed and agility matter most!

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? Well, to identify the articles listed here, a search for “change” on the blog yielded eighty-six PAGES of articles. Don’t Overthink It?

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

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. How Do You Appreciate the Value of Business Agility? I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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etventure

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the traditional KPI-driven environment, risk taking is simply a bad idea. Instead, their drive is to achieve their KPIs – and which often requires strong leadership, focus and discipline. Give your employees the space to be innovative, and give them the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills and mindset.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

It’s about the culture needed to win in an ever changing marketplace, especially after Covid 19. Would that be so bad? I was recently with a founder of a small Swiss tech startup, and he was all over the ‘how’ they are squeezing value out of a step-change technology, to generate as many user cases as possible, whichever they are.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 7, 2023

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