Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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.

Change 174

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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.

Agile 72

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

The accepted conventions of project management—from methodologies to practices and strategies to software—are there to ensure organizational effectiveness, a concept that measures how efficiently an organization achieves its business goals. Consistent monitoring and reporting are also required for effective time management.

Project 52

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

I wrote a piece last week introducing the idea that change is strategic, and that strategy should consider change competency as a core competency. Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change.

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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? How Can You Encourage This Trait? Decisiveness.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

Unfortunately, not all corporates know how to innovate consistently over time. 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.

How To 59

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Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

A significant portion of my strategic facilitation work is with internal functions, a click or two below corporate and business unit strategy: marketing, human resources, purchasing, and even internal strategy groups. There is good news and bad news in this. He gathers his best thinkers to think through a strategy.

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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.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Therefore, this at-home life’s effects were not felt as a need to realign strategies and even rethink business models. Rethinking how to do your business is an urgent demand to be aligned with this new user behavior. We are already leaving a spoiler: it is crucial to understand how to get value from innovation. Startup-up.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Ideascale ) How might we develop AI as a creative thinking partner to effect profound change, and create innovative solutions that help us build a more equitable and sustainable planet for all humanity? ( What’s more, inaccurate or otherwise flawed training data (for instance, data skewed by inherent biases) produces poor outcomes.”

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Generative AI Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 59

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Developing customer empathy, validating or invalidating key business model assumptions through rapid experimentation, and leveraging data and insights as market evidence results in greater possibility of successful commercialization. What is Commercialization?

Product Development 75

Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. Initiating your re-thinking strategy. Developing a habit of reflective practices. Re-thinking in a disconnected and disruptive age.

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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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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

By combining these approaches, organizations can improve the performance of every stage of the software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery to outcomes. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan?

Management 64

Management Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategy 64

Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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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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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . How much can you know about your confidence to make a confident decision over a 30-minute interview? . This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. 5 steps to structure a high-performance SaaS marketing team. The worst part? . Unsure why? .

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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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Artificial Intelligence is not just a tool but a revolutionary force, catalyzing fundamental changes in how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

The authors report four characteristics that set top CEOs apart, According to the article, “roughly half the strong candidates had distinguished themselves in more than one of the four essential behaviors, while only 5% of the weak candidates had.”. Employee Engagement Strategies – Pigs, Chickens, and What Great Leaders Do.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategic Thinking Exercises eBook 87

Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts.

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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.

Leadership 52

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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. Being a rather seasoned innovation manager, I pulled out my innovation toolbox and got to work training my organization on how to use the tools. I needed to help my team and leaders cultivate an Innovation Mindset.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Above all, it is a mentality based on several principles, such as placing the user at the center of the strategy. What’s more, to develop real innovation, you need prototyping skills, problem analysis, and iterative work. Design Thinking is a problem solving and idea development strategy centered on human beings.

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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. This is an unprecedented disadvantage for competitors. I saw customers experience outstanding success.

Competition 52

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Do companies know how to innovate? It’s how to deal with uncertainty.”. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. Poorly defined innovation ensures innovation groups are not aligned to corporate strategy. . It’s how to deal with uncertainty. Should it be in a job description?

LEAN 52

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We’ve put together some advice on how to move past the blockers and turn on the amplifiers: The First Design Decision. Teams who make a mistake here and select a strategic objective based on other criteria tend to lose the support of innovation champions at the leadership level and the engagement of coworkers at the implementation level.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

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. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Learn from failure.

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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? I reviewed all eighty-six pages to develop our change management strategy primer. Planning a Strategy in the Change Agent Role.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“The strength of the team is in each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” A large, global company was reconstituting its corporate innovation team after a period of massive and intense reorganization involving all aspects of corporate governance and business unit operations.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yesterday’s post on using a new type of SWOT analysis to stimulate bolder strategic conversations in strategy meetings garnered quite a bit of attention. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Need to get your strategy developed quickly?

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

It is possible to shift the range of negative feelings that lockdowns produce by exploring possibilities and opportunities for expanding our knowledge and learning, by knowing how to be more playful and experimental, and especially by taking up a set of regular reflective practices. A unique moment in time. Starting with elastic thinking.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 6, 2021

This is why: it will be the basis for an internal environment capable of resisting the weaknesses of your company. It represents your strengths and how you deal with impacts. Adaptability, flexibility, resilience and agility. And how are these going to help us? Strategy definition. With speed ?? With speed ??in

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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. It drives innovation to a transactional level and leads organizations to seek the perceived lower risk of acquiring new ideas vs developing them in house. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all.

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MSSBTI

APRIL 9, 2019

Operating in a Global Economy is not for the weak. If you know your competitors’ strategies, strengths and weaknesses, then you will know how to build a supply chain that will win business for your company. The supply chain challenge with technology is how to control the supply chain from the palm of your hand.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. They are not agile. Successful companies look to acquisition, outsourcing, co-development, or a combination of these options.

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