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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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. is the guiding question, and we develop solutions based upon our understanding of the answer. 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.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I am suggesting a vertical and horizontal design applying innovation stack and building block approaches, all “housed” on a technology platform. We have the capacity through technology and human interactions for them to come together, exchange, and increase and accelerate innovative concept value. Nothing can work in isolation.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2024

A Shifting Reality for the Auto Industry Automotive companies are increasingly confronted with the intricate task of synchronizing software development timelines with deadlines for vehicle launches. This confluence of factors impedes their agility and responsiveness.

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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. In exchange for financing and mentorship, an established business can be at the forefront of new products, models, and technologies.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started. There are good and bad things about this approach.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion. Of course, not all friction is bad. They are real.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Moving into unchartered job and skills territory We don’t yet know what exact technological, or soft skills, new occupations, or jobs will be required in this fast-moving transformation, or how we might further advance generative AI, digitization, and automation.

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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. Planning and Management A project manager should be good at planning, scheduling, and allocating resources, including money and technology, in order to complete a project on time.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I dutifully ordered it and once I had the chance, diligently read it. 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”. What are the key learnings towards creating high-performing and faster-moving teams?

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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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. It’s hard work to get buy-in across supporting functions of a value stream.

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Sudden and rapid shifts in consumer behavior, the boost in social media adaptation, and the complexities of global supply chains have led to an amplified need for agility to be maintained in demand forecasting. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Social media platforms and customer reviews provide a wealth of unstructured data.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What makes us believe that developing digital products is not only a solution to overcome the crisis, but also to generate business value after it too. To dive into the new patterns of consumer behavior and the changes these new times have brought to companies, we prepared this article. Bonus 2: Agile Software Development.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. It is no wonder we’re growing increasingly pessimistic about making a positive change to a different transforming model within organizations. Every time we begin to call on innovation, we face negative forces.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. What is the difference between design thinking and agile methodologies? How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

In this blog post we talk about receptivity to change in Financial Services and some thoughts on how to move forward. Our digital capabilities have been at the forefront due to the increase in the level of acceptance of digital and virtual interaction with our customers and their relative experience across business lines and geographies.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

Given the pace of change and the number of factors that are changing in the environment, taking some time to understand what may happen and, more importantly, what may happen in response, is very important. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe. That can't be a good result.

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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. When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 23, 2020

All companies need to make this change, there is no other solution! The teams are all already distributed – some were already, but most were still sharing the same table in some office out there. Why transform distributed teams into a motivated community? Optimism saves teams. Everything is a matter of choice.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? These help us to figure out what is changing. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing a relentless change occurring.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. GE has been caught in this for some time.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. In fact, it has been around since the 1990s, when technology started to become commonplace in businesses, and email and the Internet emerged as ubiquitous productivity tools. They are not agile.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2021

” Whoever works in the area must develop skills to face the critical moments of the project. This is why management emerges to support teams to achieve the desired goals through a series of tools and knowledge. Managing a project is not just about leading and distributing activities to the team. Integration management.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Digital technology, the accelerated pace of change, and the evolving relationship between businesses and their customers all have an effect on how organizations must operate in order to remain relevant in today’s shifting business landscape. At the heart of this transformation mindset is Lean Innovation.

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MSSBTI

OCTOBER 8, 2018

On the other hand, drastic environmental changes can lead to significant mutations within a few generations. Technological evolution follows similar patterns as biological. Much of it happens as a result of millions of small innovative changes that take place before the next technological era occurs.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Let’s dive in!

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

Yet far more of our business organizations are continuing to really struggle on their innovation activity for a whole host of reasons that seem never-ending, disappointing in end result and stuck in management quicksand to ever really change. Perhaps we are in urgent need to change the very dynamics of how we undertake innovation.

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eZassi

MARCH 28, 2019

The best solutions tend to be a combination of technology and services. While we tend to think of innovation in terms of new technology, solutions can also come in the form of new types of services that offer improvements on old ways of doing things, meet previously unidentified needs or fill gaps in the market.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus new features or technical change. Did it instigate change? Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some defining issues that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda and it is right to respond to these. Other real changing forces influencing innovation. The shifts taking place around innovation have been significant in their impact.

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ITONICS

JULY 26, 2019

Years ago, Kodak should have dedicated 20% of its resources to develop digital products, meaning exploring adjacent opportunities back when print photography ruled the industry. Disruptive Innovation can often be defined as the introduction of a new technology that creates a new industry and transforms the way we do things.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Over a decade after those early guerrilla user testing days, Intuit recognized it faced the “ Innovator’s Dilemma ”–the company was doing a good job of supporting their core products but they weren’t having any success creating new products and they weren’t keeping pace with the changing software industry.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities. Imagine a business unit of a tech company organizing a hackathon to find new ideas that help them deliver new solutions, while the HR department organizes training on creative skills. The questions to address: What’s in it for them?

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. They can be fantastic partners who drive real change, but their needs are very different from a product team.

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