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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. Yet we can’t lose sight of another critical success factor for navigating today’s highly uncertain world, especially in 2023: agility. Three Steps to Strategic Agility. From the book Experiential Intelligence.

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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

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. We are all presently learning a new practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. IT systems.

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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier. Find it here.

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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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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. Or so the argument goes.

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Agility and Anticipation, a Tale of Two Business Strategies 

Daniel Burrus

When the competition launches a new product, how do you react? In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Put them in context with the concept of agility. Agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition. Of course not. Not at all.

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The innovation skills you need

Jeffrey Phillips

Panayioutou says that Coke needs people who can spot trends, help Coke analyze what customers want and create more agility and speed. But she goes on to say they need good thinkers, people who are good collaborators and who have good learning agility. She needs people who can understand the new strategy and help implement it.

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