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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

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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Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams

CMOE

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. Team Mentality. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? Decisiveness. Alignment of Values. Confidence.

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley

…Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function. Most teams muddle along, and get the essential things done — or not. And, all teams can improve, with training. Teams Improve With Momentum Training.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

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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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. It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

Agile 108
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Risk and Innovation frustrate me

Paul Hobcraft

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. It is going to be tougher than I initially imagined.