Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups – companies under 5 years old owned by one person or a small team of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – will innovate quite differently from established companies, which have a history of successful growth and a market share to defend. Established companies love the industry status quo.

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Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 126

Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 5, 2018

The new game, as demonstrated by a number of emerging disrupters, is captured in the book Unscaled and discussed at length in this nice blog post - one I wish I could have written. There are a couple of overlapping points here, but the main idea is that scale as a competitive weapon is increasingly passe.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

Selling sugary drinks seems passe, as bottled water, energy drinks and other health conscious foods and beverages seem to be taking over the "share of mouth" or "share of stomach" that food and beverage companies like to talk about. If the article is to be believed, Coke could have it both ways - size and speed, depth and agility.

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Agile Innovation Disruption Competition 125

mjvinnovation

APRIL 9, 2020

In this article, you will reflect on the challenges of remote team management and how agile practices can help you make the transition efficiently. Company culture takes time to adapt to remote life. There are many agile methodologies incorporated in the management of even the most varied remote teams. Follow this!

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

These together have provided that specific company a level of success that others – mostly competitors – begin to notice. Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. Agility, adaptability & innovation. Theory Y management.

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Learning System Agile Competition 163

mjvinnovation

MAY 16, 2019

Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In this article, you will understand what agile practices are, what benefits this approach offers to your company. What are Agile Practices. Check it out!

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keep reading to see how successful executives are achieving results in their everyday business through incorporating agile methodologies like SCRUM! The agile mindset. Before we get into the agile mindset, we need to remember that it is linked to Agile Philosophy. continuous delivery of quick results. High quality.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation? What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? The results were incredible, with insightful recommendations on what it takes to make innovation succeed at companies of any size. Let’s get started.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

In 1998, Chuck Templeton started a company called EasyEats.com. As you probably know, the company would become an icon for what it meant to create a two-sided marketplace business model. Many innovators agonize over the name of their company. That’s what creates competitive advantage. I went to high school with Chuck.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For many companies, innovation means taking products and services and changing them in detail: color, shape, features, size, etc. Besides, due to digital transformation, companies also need to develop more digital business models. Sustainable innovation: it helps companies to defend their position in the market and remain competitive.

Company 40

Company Innovation Radical Innovation Competition 40

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

The question isn't even: should we become more agile or more nimble? The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative. How good is your competitive intelligence? The real question isn't: should we change?

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Change Agile Industry Marketing 113

Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. BY FAISAL HOQUE. Throw out the old goalposts.

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. BY FAISAL HOQUE. Throw out the old goalposts.

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Video Disruption Agile Entrepreneurship 52

Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. A 2018 Gartner survey found that 85% of companies prefer a product-centric model. A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation.

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mjvinnovation

MAY 19, 2020

We will dive into this through our material to demonstrate the urgency of repositioning your company and how it will generate value for your business! We will dive into this through our material to demonstrate the urgency of repositioning your company and how it will generate value for your business! MJV was born with this mindset.

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Agile Design Thinking Technical Review Competition 52

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Learning to become anticipatory versus being agile and reactionary will prove to be far more effective in helping you think exponentially, skip your biggest problems with ease, and ultimately envision and bring to life amazing new ideas with the confidence that certainty provides.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers. Companies who choose to act decisively, can adapt to shifting business environments at will. They innovate.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. But the new executive insisted that SCRUM had to be done by-the-book. Where did Agile come from?

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Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Luckily, a new book by Daniel Markovitz entitled Building the Fit Organization lends that helping hand. In it, he proposes six core principles that embody the discipline needed to bring your business to a level of fitness that will enable it to achieve peak performance, which he defines as strength, speed, and agility.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups. Yet we can’t lose sight of another critical success factor for navigating today’s highly uncertain world, especially in 2023: agility. I’ve built new teams.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. is, what its basic principles are, and how you can start implementing it in your company today! In his book, Jurgen Appelo compares Management 3.0 After all, what is a company if not an organization that aspires to grow? What is Management 3.0?

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

It was pervasive; it was flung about in workshops and articles, books and business meetings, from Cape Town to Cairo, Seoul to Singapore, in different industries, in different sizes of firms. Rests on new foundations of value (capabilities & assets – the know-how, know-what and know-why underlying what a company does and how it does so).

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Meeting Innovation Competition Big Data 100

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

We'll know we've reached peak innovation insanity when someone writes the "Chicken Soup" for innovators souls book. This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play.

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LEAN Agile Innovation Software 100

Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Any time you can make the competition seem like they are offering yesterday’s features and functions, and you are offering tomorrow’s, you can accelerate growth well into the future. . The majority have embraced the idea of agility as the best way to turn rapid change into an advantage. Order Daniel Burrus’ book today!

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It was a myth perpetuated by popular books, canvases, academia, and consultants. However, there’s no evidence supporting the idea that non-technical companies, which are not inventing technology, need to do breakthroughs or disruptive innovation. It’s not clear, however, that’s what the rest of the business believed.

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ImagineNation

JULY 26, 2023

Most of us are already aware that companies increasingly need to innovate  — across strategies, operations, offerings, and business models. Where many have become survival focussed, and adopt a short-term reactive lens in attempts to restore “normality” and arrest a decline in long-term growth rates and competitiveness.

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Innovation in Practice

MAY 2, 2016

Companies compete with one another in a mindless race to the bottom, matching products and services feature for feature, competing primarily on price. We call this senseless strategy “Attrition Competition”, and it is derived from prevailing military strategy, which seeks to overwhelm competitors.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 4, 2017

Corporate culture has been the subject of many articles and books for years—and with good reason. But, from the perspective of an Anticipatory Organization, culture can mean more than it might to other companies and groups with less of a future focus. And, in terms of surviving and thriving, that can make all the difference.

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Culture Trends Competition Company 68

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

More and more companies are breaking out of their industry box, forming radically different business models, delivering products, services and processes all seen outside their industry and found they can be applied within theirs. Have you noticed nothing seems to stand alone today; it is now more connected, more dependent on others.

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Industry Trends LEAN Change 215

mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

Innovation has become a buzzword in all market segments, but many companies invest in innovation consulting to remain at the forefront. In this article, we will explain some important points about innovation consulting and show you what it can do for your company. Check it out! Where to start: what is innovation?

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Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Analysis 52

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 1, 2017

Toffler and others predicted the future in books like Future Shock and Third Wave. Second, creative businesses don't need to scale as far or as rapidly as industrial companies, so we may need to rethink what it means to "build a business" as we become makers of ideas that are then scaled by AI, robots or machines.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Creativity Agile 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

A key need of this digital transformation is going to be asking the question of how can we build in ‘greater agility’ and what is presently stopping us from achieving this. Finally, one book written by David L. It needs very hands-on engagement throughout the whole process.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The more we hang on to legacies within our companies, the more we hold up the vital changes we need to manage in the 21st century. Then the last in a long list of legacy problems we never achieve the potential of organizational agility and efficiency. Why do I worry so much about legacy? We constantly sub-optimize.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. The fact is, many large companies use anachronistic methods to bring new products to market, resulting in failed product launches.

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 75

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Kaihan Krippendorf ‘s latest book, Driving Innovation from Within , takes you smoothly in the intrapreneurs’ journey: his book guides internal innovators to innovation success through meaningful innovators’ stories, research, and wise and shrewd guidelines. First is scale. The second is capabilities.

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