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. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.

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CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

You can’t have strategy without leadership. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter? The key to being a successful strategic leader is balancing two important skills: Delivering business results and meeting today’s expectations.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Some signs that suggest the need for culture change include a decline in performance metrics, a lack of new ideas coming to the fore, high employee turnover rates, or a failure to meet customer expectations. Initiating a culture change demands courage, vision, and a steadfast commitment from the leadership team.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Understanding Experiential Intelligence for Leadership Development Experiential Intelligence (XQ) is increasingly recognized as a powerful driver in shaping effective leaders. It allows these emerging leaders to navigate complex business landscapes with agility and confidence. What is Experiential Intelligence?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To delve further into the developmental aspects of organizational culture and how it can be shaped, explore our article on develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. Furthermore, in the rapidly changing business landscape, the agility and resilience provided by a strong culture are invaluable.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

AI Meets Design Thinking: Crafting a People-Centric Business Future Imagine this — a customer service agent can deeply empathize with a frustrated customer because an AI assistant analyzed the customer’s tone and background to provide insights ahead of time. The agent knows just how to console them — that’s the future we can build.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. We’ve all been to uninspiring organizational meetings before. Far too often, engaging and innovative meetings are rare and fall short of accomplishing their goals. You can host more innovative innovation meetings that inspire.

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

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Planview

MAY 16, 2022

Meeting new people, fostering relationships, building trust, collaborating – they’re all certainly possible in a hybrid / remote environment, but they require deliberate, consistent effort. Prioritizing Connection Within Our Leadership Team. We take our mission (but not ourselves) seriously.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

As Steve Jobs emphasised, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” , and sustained Innovation enables companies to consistently meet evolving customer needs, fend off disruptive upstarts, reduce costs, and strengthen strategic positioning.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

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. Embracing Flexibility and Agility In a rapidly changing business environment, staying nimble is more than a virtue—it’s a necessity.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. To foster a strategic mindset among your leadership team, consider the insights from 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. Leadership in strategy development means being an architect of change, understanding the unique strengths of your team, and leveraging them to build resilient and dynamic business strategies that withstand the test of time.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By mastering this aspect of leadership, you can orchestrate complex projects across time zones, leverage the diverse expertise of team members, and harness the full potential of digital technology. The agility to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs. Time zone discrepancies complicating synchronous work and meetings.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

By mastering this aspect of leadership, you can orchestrate complex projects across time zones, leverage the diverse expertise of team members, and harness the full potential of digital technology. The agility to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs. Time zone discrepancies complicating synchronous work and meetings.

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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. Remove barriers Provide tools and resources for effective collaboration.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Would you like your people to try out their ideas for better ways to meet the needs of customers or better ways to run the business? They would like to see more experimentation in order to increase business agility and entrepreneurial activity. Here is a question for leaders and managers. Most CEOs get this.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2017

I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Meet frequently with other leaders across the organization to share successes and challenges and brainstorm solutions. Demonstrate agility and resilience so they are prepared to adapt, shift, and transform the business. Are they prepared for future challenges?

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Cris Beswick

MAY 16, 2024

Yet, the data also shows that only 12% meet or exceed expectations. In the world we must operate in today, my challenge to leaders is about the willingness to accept ‘improved’ performance rather than meeting or exceeding desired expectations. But that merely means more companies settled for mediocre results.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

As you plan your next conference or leadership program, understanding the value of these speakers is crucial. They discuss the challenges of implementing innovation in business and the role leadership plays in driving change. Leadership in Innovation The role of leadership in innovation cannot be overstated.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2024

This model is particularly beneficial for startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that require strategic leadership but may not have the resources to support a full-time executive position. Automating Routine Tasks From scheduling meetings to generating reports, many administrative tasks can be automated using AI tools.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

The five skills are: Leadership behavior Every IT professional must see themselves as an IT leader. Leadership is the ultimate, irreplaceable skill. Part of that is using technology to better understand the customer and meet them where they are. But also, to continue to be agile and adjust as the customer must adjust.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Managers and leaders are recognizing that fostering team collaboration practices can yield a more agile and responsive organization. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge. Create collaborative projects that require diverse skill sets.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In years past, many businesses have succeeded with an agile, reactive approach to business where they respond to climate, competition, and social circumstances in an “after the fact” way. As many businesses have perfected this approach, a new leadership model is now needed to stay ahead of the competition. How do you do this, though?

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Bringing together customers, Planview SMEs and prospects alike for a full day of great thought leadership content. Huntington Bank then embarked on an Agile transformation journey to evolve how its business solutions were delivered, funded, prioritized, and governed.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world. It needs bold leadership. Today larger organizations are having to face the stark truth.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 30, 2023

We can optimize operations, streamline our organizations and motivate our people, but eventually our square-peg business will meet its round-hole world and we will need to adapt, build new skills and shift our strategies. Unfortunately, the overwhelming evidence suggests that we will fail.

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Learning Case Study Study LEAN 124

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

It needs increased agility, looks to have innovation consistently redesigned to meet different challenges and needs, it needs a better set of flexible design elements and system thinking to gain from reuse and redesign rapidly. Emphasize the potential for increased agility, faster time-to-market, and improved innovation outcomes.

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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. Pulling from the survey responses of 600 executives, the report uncovers five areas of concern — alignment, accountability, resources, agility, and culture — and a recommended action for each area.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

By establishing clear timelines and demonstrating eagerness to meet the client’s needs, salespeople can keep the momentum going, avoiding unnecessary delays that might cause the client to reconsider. Being able to react quickly to changes in the market or customer needs ensures that opportunities are not lost to more agile competitors.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. What and how to adjust to better and faster speak to our customers and meet their needs? So the question is not "why meet customer needs?"; Strategic Agility.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. In the world of Agile, reflection comes in the form of a formal retrospective that is done with the team after an important stage, event, or project. This is a great session for a leadership program.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. This was the primary topic of David’s talk. What’s the ROI?

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