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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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EFFECTING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE AND LEARNING

ImagineNation

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. Intentional change and learning. Intentional change and learning.

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Your Guide to Incremental Innovation: Examples and Lessons from Global Brands

Qmarkets

For many people, it evokes brands that created something so new that it changed the way we interact with certain products or services forever: Uber. Incremental innovation has agility baked into it. What do you think about when you hear the word innovation ? It’s fast to market.

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

This case study shows how the ComputerWeekly user experience team integrated with an agile development group. The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. At this point the development team maintained the site with an agile process. People make or break any project.

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Riding the whirlwind

Jeffrey Phillips

This is from the Old Testament, where the prophet Hosea is telling the people that they need to change their ways. I think, however, we are the brink of some seismic changes and those firms that are ready will be able to ride the coming whirlwind, surf the tsunami, or benefit from the size and magnitude of the coming change.

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Covering Innovation My Way

Paul Hobcraft

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. These site includes our thoughts on what makes up innovation ecosystems and the changes these can offer us in innovation opportunity.

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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

From the second ten years 1998-2008. Being largely project based, developing diverse, cohesive & collaborative, & hard-core agile teaming skills were the critical success factors for effective project execution & delivery. Mindsets are foundational to any change process. Being a congruent role model .