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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Dependencies are difficult to tackle in software development since value streams are complex, structured more like an airline network than a manufacturing line. Despite being commonly used, Agile, DORA, and Engineering metrics on their own do not increase the likelihood of operationalizing the shift. #5.

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Building the innovation stack

Paul Hobcraft

Examples like IKEA, Square (Jim McKelvey’s solution), and Southwest Airlines are credited with creating innovation stacks. Building an innovation stack on a platform increases business agility through interlinking innovation across a company’s infrastructure, culture, and employee base.

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Building a Business Case for Innovation Management – Why Now?

Qmarkets

Amazon shares how eliminating the ‘institutional no’ and ‘serial no’ from the management chain, to allow for a more collaborative process has helped the company establish its innovative culture. If these airlines had not innovated quickly in response to the crisis – would they have fared so well?

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Building a Business Case for Innovation Management – Why Now?

Qmarkets

Amazon shares how eliminating the ‘institutional no’ and ‘serial no’ from the management chain, to allow for a more collaborative process has helped the company establish its innovative culture. If these airlines had not innovated quickly in response to the crisis – would they have fared so well?

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Coopetition

CREATORS

Start-ups are agile, their organizational structure promotes innovation and drives change forward?—?this Here are some examples: Coopetition was carried out successfully by the Israeli airline El-Al when they formed their own acceleration and venture capital arm “Cockpit” to invest in promising start-ups all around the world.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

Digital products in the hands of customers, such as banking, airline or music apps, represent the last piece of the digitization puzzle since many of the back-end systems and processes became computerized over the last several decades. Digital transformation is just as much about changing the company culture as it is about the technology.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

They talk about Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and Aravind Eye Hospitals to drive home the point about turning a constraint, such as resource, time, and method, into a winning opportunity. In an Agile system, you could adjust cost, scope, and schedule to impact development positively. Conclusion. A constraint is a double-edged sword.