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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Still, its need is to be far more fluid, adaptive and agile in what it processes and manages, especially in today’s challenging world, adapting to today’s challenges and working towards the future. It should have a specific “bedrock” or foundation of needed stages or steps. The balance and creative tension.

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INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IS PARADOXICAL

ImagineNation

Most of us are aware that both the organisational leadership and cultural paradigms have shifted , due to the accelerating demands of the current global VUCA/BANI operating environment. How might you, as both a leader ( and coach) become increasingly tech-savvy and remember that organisations are run by people, for people?

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Due to this has become a much longer post than I would like and I apologize for that but I wanted to get the mentality issue well ‘aired’ and I needed to cover off a number of bases to frame this. Many existing organizations cannot cope with this agility, flexibility and responsiveness. Firstly, Two Routes to Resilience.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

trillion (2016) according to a white paper by Oliver Wyman , a leading global management consulting firm. These banks recorded 58% growth between 2011 and 2016, a staggering number – that is until you review the performance of the industry’s newer entrants. trillion to $1.0

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Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.

Paul Hobcraft

Simply put companies ‘die’ due to their inability to adapt to change and transformation projects fail because the message somehow fails to register and never gets completed to the original objectives. This requires technology to be central to this different thinking, alongside a radical shift in how we see innovation.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction.

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Building the In-house Design Agency

Boxes and Arrows

Two hour heuristic review meetings or small design projects are cheap and demonstrate value. Many firms understand that Agile development is difficult with a team in multiple physical locations, not to mention time zone and language or cultural challenges. Unfortunately, design operates in an agile mode at all times.

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