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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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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

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.

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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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Here’s Your Agile Track Recap from Accelerate

Planview

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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5 steps to have an agile HR in your company

mjvinnovation

In times of exponential change, the agile approach is dominating the market. Have you heard of agile HR? The term Agile is no longer used only in the area of ??Technology. Today, Agile Methods are transforming the way companies hire, develop and manage their employees. What is Agile HR. And HR can not be left out.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

To support you in building out your innovation competencies, capabilities and capacity that requires a deeper investment in skill development in a culture of continual learning. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.

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