Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders today know that they need to be agile — to change direction quickly in the face of changing or uncertain conditions. But a byproduct of agility is churn: The confusion and demotivation that comes from many such pivots. This can cause inefficiency that bogs down innovative projects and strategies.

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Agile How To Project Change 109

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

Change 173

Change Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 173

Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

One of the most frustrating statements I come across is that “we had a good strategy, but just couldn’t execute it.” So how was that a good strategy? This raises an important question: What makes a strategy good? The concept of strategy gets thrown around so much and so incompetently, few stop to define the term.

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Strategy Strategy Agile Project 162

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 16, 2021

Agile Transformation is where behaviors evolve, and decisions improve to reach success. The Agile Transformation journey is one of triumphs and obstacles. Understanding agility is the first key to making it happen. Many companies see the need for agility and are tailoring their methodology. What Is Agility?

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Agile Survey Data Industry 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Increased Agility: Leaders who think strategically are more adaptable and can pivot quickly in response to changing market conditions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Increased Agility: Leaders who think strategically are more adaptable and can pivot quickly in response to changing market conditions.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Leadership 100

IdeaScale

MARCH 3, 2020

Are you looking for a way to optimize your innovation strategy? The agile manifesto was created in the early 2000s by software developers who wanted to bring their products to the market faster and more efficiently. Hence, agile software was born. You can create a culture of agile innovation by empowering your employees.

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Agile Innovation Project Meeting 147

Flying Fish Lab

MAY 5, 2024

Business development and positioning strategies provide clear direction and guide decision-making processes that propel business growth. But how exactly are these strategies being revolutionised? Data-Driven Decision-Making in Positioning Strategies Gone are the days of making decisions based on instinct.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Software Review 52

Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. To buy in to Agile, leaders need to understand what’s in it for them.

Agile 111

Agile Handbook Leadership Engagement 111

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideation From closed to open: The way ideas are generated is changing.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Agile Ideation 147

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration in Today’s Workplace In the contemporary workplace, characterized by rapid technological advancements and a shift towards more agile and remote working conditions, fostering team collaboration has become indispensable. Below are pivotal strategies for nurturing team collaboration.

Collaboration 113

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Guidelines 113

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moreover, through CVC, corporations can tap into the startup ecosystem , leveraging agility and innovative mindsets. Competitive Advantage Gaining a leading edge in the market by leveraging startup agility and creativity. Business Model Innovation Adopting novel approaches to business operations and customer engagement.

Strategy 100

Strategy Strategy Technical Review Agile 100

Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a world where exponential change and digital disruptions abound, you simply cannot rest on your laurels and merely rely on what you’ve already built. Because of the rapidly accelerating rate of change, your business is only ever as strong as its next innovation. An Anticipatory mindset is the answer.

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Agile Change Disruption Trends 88

Digital Tonto

APRIL 28, 2024

I can think of no greater example of this simple axiom than the practice of change management, especially with regard to communication. Part of the problem is that the most predominant change management models are not based on rigorous research, but rather case study interviews that are subject to high levels of bias.

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Case Study Study LEAN Tips 158

Planview

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization. Becoming Agile and Beyond. The Agile track “Becoming Agile and Beyond” was focused on two main themes: Agile Program Management and Agile Transformation.

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Agile LEAN Roadmap Meeting 98

Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Now, imagine that something special is a groundbreaking innovation that could change the world. Furthermore, the allocation of R&D funds involves navigating the intricate interplay between different types of innovation, each requiring different investment strategies. Imagine you have a piggy bank.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Resources 72

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion. Strategic Speed is defined as the optimal speed for swift strategy deployment and decision-making. It’s a virtuous cycle.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. There’s little surprise that the agile framework has taken off.

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Agile Software Developers Software Development Roadmap 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Planview

JANUARY 30, 2024

As organizations rush to capitalize on AI strategies, many of them meet the same challenge they’ve met before – strategic drift. Wayfaring strategies aren’t uncommon. In fact, studies show that strategy implementation failure rates can reach as high as 60% to 90%. What’s old is new again. Let’s get started.

Change 52

Change Report Survey Culture 52

Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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Agile Strategy Strategy Innovation 61

Planview

APRIL 26, 2022

One thing has become clear for organizations in this pandemic era – change is hard, and if you don’t have a transformation plan, you’re more likely to fall victim to one of these common Agile transformation challenges. At the start of 2020, the need for Agile transformation was already knocking on the door of most major organizations.

Agile 52

Agile Handbook Culture Leadership 52

Daniel Burrus

APRIL 12, 2017

As is the case with so many traditional ideas and principles, the strategies that worked yesterday may only be holding you back today and tomorrow. To jump ahead with both confidence and lower risk, you will need more than agility. Agility serves an important role helping companies react quickly to unforeseen change.

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Agile Change Trends Disruption 94

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. But it’s not always easy to identify them.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Project eBook 72

InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options. Core Elements of Agile. Responding to change over following a plan.

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Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 74

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 15, 2020

There is one thing you can count on - change - and the faster you decide not WHAT to change, but the WHY and HOW to change, the better off you'll be. We'll get signals over the next few quarters about what to change, but so will everyone else. Why change? How change? How to change is equally important.

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Change Agile System Strategy 243

Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a proactive and essential strategy in today’s ever-changing consumer and customer landscape. Increased adaptability: Encourage organizations to be agile and responsive to market shifts, technological advancements, and customer preferences. By adopting this approach.

Disruption 98

Disruption Change Agile Competition 98

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Was agility the driving force behind Uber’s dominance in ridesharing?

Agile 63

Agile Trends Disruption Guidelines 63

Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 9, 2017

Chances are, you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions. In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Put them in context with the concept of agility. Agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition. Not at all.

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Agile Strategy Strategy Competition 70

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Greater Flexibility Teams that collaborate well can adapt to changes quickly. Organizations with strong collaborative practices often see improvements in productivity, efficiency, and agility. Team collaboration practices are essential for navigating these changes and staying competitive.

Collaboration 113

Collaboration Technical Review Agile Trends 113

Planview

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Is your organization able to maintain an effective strategy under uncertainty? Strategic portfolio management (SPM) can give your organization the much-needed agility and up-to-date data to pivot when priorities and strategy shift. That knowledge can act as a catalyst to create a more strategic and agile organization.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Agile Disruption 52

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2024

Being explicit about ecosystems in the context of organizational strategies provides several distinct advantages compared to traditional approaches. Agile Organizational Structure: Why it Matters: A rigid structure can hinder adaptability. An agile structure allows for quick adjustments to changing conditions.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Agile Culture 147

Braden Kelley

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts … Continue reading →

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