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Big Companies Should Not Try to Act Like Startups

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2009, Jeffrey Immelt set out on a journey to transform his company, General Electric, into a 124 year old startup. Although it was one of the largest private organizations in the world, with 300,000 employees, he sought to become agile and nimble enough to compete with high-flying Silicon Valley […]

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

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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Leading the Tired Team

CMOE

Institutionalize Agility. If we are to continue to meet the demands of a turbulent market now and in the future, having the agility to respond to changes and challenges, keep pace with the shifting needs of clients and other stakeholders, and change direction on a dime must now become part of a team’s core culture. About the Authors.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Instead of only reacting, Citibank established a research center, which was a very early iteration of what would eventually become its first Innovation Lab in Dublin in 2009. Let’s go back to our example of Citibank, for instance.

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8 Emerging Business Intelligence Trends To Look For In 2020 And Beyond

Acuvate

It would require leadership buy-in and support, in particular. They can have natural language conversations with the chatbot like “what is my sales in 2018”, “What is marketing expenditure in 2019” or “Send me revenue report from 2009 to 2019”. Agile BI Development.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

John Bessant and Joe Tidd created a model for developing and testing innovation capabilities in their 2009 work Managing Innovation. Building Ambidexterity into an Organization Topic: Leadership and Organizational Studies. Drivers of innovation strategies: Testing the Tidd and Bessant (2009) model ?. De Jong, J. Kirzner, I.

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Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

ImagineNation

As well as a “meaning of life check” as to what appeared to me as a superficial & yet somewhat unsatisfying life centred around fashion’s deliberate obsolescence & the abundance of female leadership models often replicating dysfunctional male behaviours. Register Now.