Wazoku

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

At this year's Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen, I moderated a roundtable discussion on some of the challenges businesses face when trying to build a more agile organisation, grow a culture of innovation and navigate leadership and mindset. What have you found most interesting from your time at the conference so far?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If we take the three ‘classic’ strategic thrusts of product leadership, operational excellence, or customer intimacy, then we need to make clear the potentially different emphasis points within any suggested innovation approach that we should take. Each strategic value proposition has significant implications to plan and work through.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 15, 2024

This model is particularly beneficial for startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that require strategic leadership but may not have the resources to support a full-time executive position. Blog Subscrition Here Email* Please leave this field empty.

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Planview

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pulling from the survey responses of 600 executives, the report uncovers five areas of concern — alignment, accountability, resources, agility, and culture — and a recommended action for each area. The latest research by Economist Impact , commissioned by Planview, explores the topic of why strategies fail.

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Faisal Hoque

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world being transformed by unprecedented change, effective, meaningful leadership is becoming even more essential, just as quickly. That’s not to suggest that everything about transactional leadership is bad. Transactional leadership is also geared to fixed, systemic processes — do it this way and be rewarded accordingly.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 24, 2024

Despite pouring significant resources into innovation initiatives, these organisations are frequently outmanoeuvred by more agile, unconventional competitors from unexpected quarters. Failure to move with speed and agility can render even the most promising concepts obsolete before reaching their full potential.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Agile Strategy and Disruptive Innovation. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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Wazoku

JUNE 15, 2016

Innovation agility enables reduced times to market. Adopting more agile working practices and allowing for more decentralised innovation, engenders innovation more holistically across the organisation – and this can have significant benefits. The post The power of agile innovation appeared first on Wazoku.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Lack of leadership, poor organizational culture, and unprepared people lead to failed integration of mergers. Some activities require an agile approach rather than the waterfall model. ? Mergers require change management and cultural Integration of the leadership, people, and cultural aspects of an organization.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Some people think being agile is a mindset. Other think it’s an innate leadership skill. If you have the right tools, anyone can both build agility into how you think and make it the foundation of your business processes. This article was originally published on Inc.com and has been syndicated for this blog.

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ImagineNation

MAY 9, 2019

With a national election for a new Australian government about to take place in less than a weeks’ time, it raises key questions around the impact of collaborative, autocratic or competitive leadership styles. Many voters, like myself, to question as to what leadership style might be best for our country’s future.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 15, 2023

Agile Methodology and Transparency The OKR system naturally aligns with agile methodology, a business approach characterized by iterative, incremental work cadences known as sprints. In this context, agility is not merely relegated to tech development but permeates the entire business.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Hinders Responsiveness to Change In a rapidly changing business landscape, agility and adaptability are crucial.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 7, 2023

Being able to react quickly to changes in the market or customer needs ensures that opportunities are not lost to more agile competitors. Leadership Challenges: Interestingly, leaders might find this task more difficult, revealing potential areas for growth. Blog Subscrition Here Email* Please leave this field empty.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2017

Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Here, we look at how Design Thinking’s user-centered approach and agile methodologies can make an organization more responsive and agile. Implementing agile methodologies, resonating with Design Thinking’s iterative process. Implementing agile methodologies, resonating with Design Thinking’s iterative process.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 2, 2022

They are secure in their own leadership, so they can promote and equip others for success. A great leader must also be diligent in obtaining the most accurate feedback on their leadership style and development. Blog Subscrition Here Email*. These leaders are good listeners who learn from and identify with those around them.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. In the world of Agile, reflection comes in the form of a formal retrospective that is done with the team after an important stage, event, or project. This is a great session for a leadership program.

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

But not all businesses are run in this way and leadership comes in many different forms. Let’s explore the nature of modern leadership in business, look at how extending crowdsourcing beyond the executive teams impacts a business and how this all ties into building and fostering a culture of innovation. The nature of modern leadership.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. Forward looking leadership. In 1964, a company on the S&P 500 had an average life expectancy of 33 years.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2020

In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness. This was reinforced by Mc Kinsey & Co.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Innovation teams transform creative discoveries and ideas into new platforms and business models in timely, agile, and disciplined ways that bring significant value to the market and organisation. Transform creative discoveries. Role of collective mindsets and behaviours. Creating a culture of innovation – the innovation team .

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As we peer into the abyss of AI’s limitless potential, we must equip ourselves not only with agility but with structured methodologies, visionary strategies, and a commitment to professional standards. In the past, agility served as a lifeline, allowing organizations to pivot quickly in response to unforeseen disruptions.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the synergy of FFA and OKRs, the gap between understanding challenges and implementing solutions is bridged, fostering a more agile and adaptive approach to organizational growth and change. Blog Subscrition Here Email* Please leave this field empty.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Click To Tweet.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

This emerging shift in leadership techniques, from best to next practice, from pre-connectivity to post-connectivity, is shown here. Agility, adaptability & innovation. Agile product development. Best practices ‘pre-connectivity’. Next practices ‘post -connectivity’. Theory Y management. The organizational model.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”. Experiential learning a virtual and remote environment.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

One of the key skills that organisations need to learn in a VUCA world is organisational agility. The only way that an organisation can build agility is when the flow of information is quick and as far as possible, unfiltered and bi-directional. What is your preference?

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2022

In our last blog, Taking personal responsibility – going back to leadership basics , we described how people’s personal power is diminished when they don’t take personal responsibility for the impact of their behaviours and actions and the results they cause. Developing conscious leadership.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Leadership Lessons from Recent Political Crisis in Tamil Nadu by Mukesh Gupta. There are two leadership lessons that we can all learn from the way this entire episode unfolded. Also, the team that wins the power struggle may or may not be the best to take on the leadership. Conclusion: .

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Finally, to me any reference to innovation in the organisation context should also focus on the leadership approaches or practices that will help shape a culture and ensure sustainability. Twitter: johnsonwhitney.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. This I launched into blogs and posts in August 2010 and is nearing 500 posts which have built up an amazing library of innovation views. Its areas of focus: [link]. This has been the hardest dedicated site.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It’s possible as well as rewarding to do this, by hitting our pause buttons to reconnect, rethink, reimagine and reframe your possibilities for a purposeful future by: Understanding and maximising the convergence of new mindsets, and calling for new forms of leadership, new ways of working, and new operating models. Mindset matters most.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Vision for the Future The businesses that will thrive tomorrow are those agile enough to adapt, empathetic enough to understand, and technologically equipped to innovate. Blog Subscrition Here Email* Please leave this field empty. Every stakeholder, from the employee to the end customer, has their own unique narrative.

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