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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

But you'll need to focus on at least one other major change barrier, and that's your corporate culture. For decades, we've nurtured a careful, risk adverse, wait and see culture in most businesses, which is reinforced by compensation models, personnel recruitment and promotion, little tolerance for risk and uncertainty. Need proof?

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

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. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures.

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Understanding Lean Agile Principles | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Lean Agile, often called Lean-Agile or Agile at Scale, combines Lean principles and Agile software development methodologies for larger, more complex projects and organizations. This post will provide a comprehensive understanding of Lean Agile principles.

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How Lean Agile Methodology Can Help You Avoid Waste

Kainexus

Adopting Lean Agile project management principles, which maximize value while minimizing waste, is essential to mitigate waste in project management. This involves identifying and eliminating non-value-added activities, streamlining processes, improving resource allocation, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Embracing Agile Methodology to Spur Innovation

IdeaScale

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. Implementing Agile Methodology. Iteration is the key.

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How Are Agile and Innovation Related?

InnovationManagement

Organizations everywhere are working to form agile cultures. What does it mean to be agile? . The post How Are Agile and Innovation Related? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Cultivating A DEI Garden Where Seeds of Innovation Grow into Creative Breakthroughs

To thrive from unprecedented challenges and sustain organic growth in a globally competitive environment, we must leverage innovation as a driving force, along with agility, adaptability and resilience. That is where nurturing a cultural foundation for innovation starts.

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Driving Collaboration to Sustainable Innovation

Speaker: Wayne Kurtzman, Research Director, Social and Collaboration, IDC

It's the cultural willingness to share and win as a team using the right technologies and the assumption everyone can add value." — Wayne Kurtzman. How to motivate your employees to go the extra mile and empower them to be more agile. How to establish sustainable corporate collaboration through technology and culture.