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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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Strategy to Execution to enable Intelligent Enterprise

Rmukesh Gupta

The people who define strategy should also look at the skills gap, the culture gap and the execution gaps of the past, see if there is anything that has or is expected to change, owing to specific decisions made by the executives before defining their strategy. . A good strategy is one that can be explained in a short 3-4 sentences.

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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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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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5 Practices for Leaders of the Future #FutureOfWork

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the best examples of this behaviour that I have come across is by Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines. He is famous to have taught every employee of the Organization to decide based on the one shared vision they had – to be the lowest cost airline. The answer usually showed itself. Coaches and Develops other leaders.

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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?