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Are You Future-Proof? Preparing for Technological Disruptions

Phil McKinney

Businesses that fail to keep up with trends may be unable to compete with more agile competitors and could suffer a significant economic loss. They eventually declared bankruptcy in 2010 after losing over $900 million in revenue between 2000 and 2004 because of the shift in consumer tastes away from physical media.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

All this, calls for more organic, innovative and learning organizations that are lead by strategic leaders ( Greiner, 2004 ). Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank). Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design.

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

These are generally known by their agility and fast implementation of their products or services, giving them a great growth potential. in 2004 to 8.3% The major challenge is then for large companies, usually built on cumbersome processes and lack of agility. This does not mean that old innovation methods should be discarded.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

If our traditional retailer made this analysis back in, say, 2004, when web retailing was still in its infancy, it should have recognized that it’s disruptibilty score, was, well, disrupted. (levers for Customer responsiveness are also provided in the illustration). They offer superior pricing, choice and convenience.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

They could become more agile, sophisticated organizations by focusing on a design-oriented approach to innovation and customers on the one hand and business modeling on the other hand for more short term results. Understanding dynamics of strategic decision making in venture creation: a process study of effectuation and causation.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation ; InfoQ; September 16, 2016. 3 (2004), 294-302. Internal Innovation Networks as a Basis for Corporate Intrapreneurship ; LinkedIn; September 29, 2015. Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization ; HBR; May 23, 2011. Stephenson, K.;