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Why Agility Cannot Stand Alone

Daniel Burrus

This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Think about some of the most powerful and industry-disruptive products and services that have changed the game through today, and try to put them in context with the concept of agility.

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Hindsight from 2020: Strategies for the New Normal

Daniel Burrus

Contrary to competing, a better strategy is to seek advantage. Competers are agile reactors caught up in meeting their day-to-day challenges, limited to worrying about the future, while innovators view the present as a stepping-stone they can use to get to a bigger and better future. Seek Advantage Instead of Competition.

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Significance over Success. Innovation over Change. Anticipation over Agility.

Daniel Burrus

The goal should be longevity and significance over success , not merely one big payout and coasting down a hill, using reactionary mindsets and agility as needed to dodge obstacles while you coast. Instinctually for many, we choose to play it safe and protect and defend the status quo with agility. Risk Based on Certainty.

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Three Examples of how Edge Computing can Give you an Edge

Daniel Burrus

Therefore, let me collate three examples below to paint a real-world picture of how edge computing works and where it is currently evolving to transform industries for the better. Let’s think about these two concepts in relation to my Anticipatory mindset versus an agile one. In a sense, they are preventative in nature.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Reviews, social media, mobile devices and so on mean that the quantity of information customers have on products, services, support issues, and ethical behavior makes them agile than the companies who serve them.

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

Daniel Burrus

Then, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 thwarted it all. 2019 was a completely different world in comparison to 2020 and beyond, and even as we have weathered the storm in one way or another, every day has become a question mark for many across all industries. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?

IdeaScale

As such, changes that began, or were accelerated, in 2020 are only picking up speed. Perhaps there’s no better sign of this than the rush to secure meetings after the practice of “Zoom-bombing” began grabbing headlines in early 2020. Asking for time before check-in, for example, is becoming the new norm.

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