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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. I see companies recognizing that speed is the differentiating competitive advantage in business.

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4 Ways Agility Protects the Status Quo (And 5 Reasons Anticipation is Better)

Daniel Burrus

Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions. Does that make agility an extinct dinosaur? Why Agility Is No Longer Enough. Agility needs to be balanced with a new key strategy—becoming #Anticipatory. Not at all!

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Tart-up or Start up? Two innovation strategies for established companies

Idea to Value

Established companies have a cash flow from their current business, assets or goodwill to mortgage, a proven record with banks. Start-ups are more agile because fewer people decide. The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models.

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Creating high-performing and faster-moving teams

ImagineNation

It seems that every meeting I went to recently, and almost every person I spoke to, mentioned the new book, from the authors of How Google Works – The Trillion Dollar Coach. Every team needs a set of agreed core and agile processes , for effectively guiding their behaviours, communicating, solving problems and making decisions.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Competition between individual entities then slowly shifts towards competition between networks.

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No such thing as the digital revolution? Avoidance strategies and status quo mentality are deadly when it comes to digitization!

etventure

All this about companies being in a huge transition because of digitization, about disruption in the ‘old economy’ because of new, agile, digital competitors – none of it is true, he says. Others refer to ‘the fintechs’ that are disrupting and shaking up the old banking economy. Feick cannot see any evidence for a digital revolution.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

Creation is simply the first hard thing in a long line of hard things and sometimes it’s one of the least stressful stages because you aren’t working all hours of the day and night trying to make your business a success stressed out of your mind because there’s no money left in the bank to pay your family’s food bills. They have vision.