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Reinventing the Entrepreneurship Game

ImagineNation

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. So here is the next instalment of my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story. Being largely project based, developing diverse, cohesive & collaborative, & hard-core agile teaming skills were the critical success factors for effective project execution & delivery. Mindsets are foundational to any change process.

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Change is Uncomfortable. Not Changing Can be Regrettable.

Daniel Burrus

Change Is Uncomfortable. Change may be the only constant in our lives, but that doesn’t mean we are happy about it! Change is possible, often unpredictable, and when it is unpredictable, it is uncomfortable. Change Is Disruptive. Certainty Makes Change Predictable.

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Coaching for Innovation Agility to Affect Profound Change

Innovation Excellence

Build Capability Change collaboration Creativity education Innovation Business Models coaching Customers Design Entrepreneurship Innovation Management Innovation Mindset LeadershipUncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game and our clients are challenged by a diverse range of problems which are not going away.

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Catalysing change through innovation teams

ImagineNation

Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. Capacity to change. What makes Israel so innovative?

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. The Top 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Pivot A Lean Startup – Business Insider It’s time for a change. Agile Case Studies Archives – Agile Advice. Source: www.agileadvice.com/category/agile-case-studies/.

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

We also know exactly what transformative innovation involves, and how to enable and equip people to connect and collaborate in new ways to effect constructive and sustainable change in a world of unknowns. Problem-solving, cultural change, and improving people’s lives.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

But the world is changing, and the digital era calls for a fresh view on how to design organizations. Organizations are now operating in a globalized, dynamic world and see their workforce change from homogeneous to diverse and educated. Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank).

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

One example is agility—the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions. Being agile, both internally and externally, seemed like a bulletproof way to approach things. However, we are now in a period of transformational change. Whether products, services or the marketplace, change is not slowing down, which means legacy technology is becoming outdated faster as well. Legacy Thinking—Changing Your Thinking Changes Your Results.

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Upskilling to drive growth in the new economy

ImagineNation

It seems that, for me, reinvention became a really useful and rewarding habit, especially as it forced me to upskill, to successfully and continuously adapt to the constant barrage of changes over my past thirty years in business.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing thru Uncertainty

ImagineNation

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Re-evaluate the situation realistically (“I/we can manage our response”) where some of us re-evaluate or change the importance of existing, new ideas and facts, and plan accordingly.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing through Uncertainty

ImagineNation

Where we initially landed in a fog of disruptive change that settled into every fibre of our being. Re-evaluate the situation realistically (“I/we can manage our response”) where some of us re-evaluate or change the importance of existing, new ideas and facts, and plan accordingly.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE

ImagineNation

They can then step up and above the line of choice, take a sacred pause, and make a fundamental choice to shift or change the pattern or structure, by seeing themselves as the cause of what happens to them, to create what they really want to create in their lives, teams or organisations.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. My method of doing business may have to change to incorporate a similar experience, or sooner or later I may be out of business. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. My method of doing business may have to change to incorporate a similar experience, or sooner or later I may be out of business. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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HOW ENTREPRENEURS CAN UTILISE SOFTWARE

ImagineNation

From self-driving cars to video conferencing apps, SaaS (software-as-service) technology to intuitive chatbots and programs that automatically calculate GST and other compliance requirements in the blink of an eye, innovation has fundamentally changed the way we live and work.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

Where leaders are mindful, authentic, and trustworthy, and are able to communicate with clarity, build resilience, and empower and enable others to collaboratively catalyse positive change.

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The 5 Jobs to Address Uncertainty

Moves the Needle

It’s a long and difficult journey to implement this mindset change. They may be design thinkers, agile developers, or people who have worked in startups before. Some people call it agile.

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The Cost of Saying “No” Just Got Expensive

Daniel Burrus

We find ourselves dangerously unprepared for a virus that doubles every three days when left to spread, and we have discovered as a human race that being agile and reacting quickly is proving increasingly ineffective as situations change on a daily basis.

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Risks Can and Should Be Calculated. Here’s the Formula.

Daniel Burrus

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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How to Avoid a Marketplace Flop

Econic

Perhaps there was an opportunity to create something customers wanted with a few changes. Innovation Agile Customer interviews Entrepreneurship Lean Startup Market ResearchYou know Gerber. It has built a strong brand with parents from all around the world over the last 90+ years. Parents know that when they choose Gerber, they are getting quality food for their babies. Like all companies, however, Gerber needs to innovate and grow.

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5G Entrepreneurs Creating Billion-Dollar Businesses

Daniel Burrus

Because of this, many industries will either be agile , reacting to an ever-increasing number of 5G innovators disrupting their industry, or they will be anticipatory innovators and use the predictability of 5G capabilities to become the disruptor. The following are perfect examples of technology-driven changes I’ve discussed in previous articles, and their correlation to 5G technology: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications and Driverless Automobiles. Within the next five years.

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Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

ImagineNation

How might this be interesting & useful to others, in the new age of global entrepreneurship, especially as a woman – where The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for Women 2016/17 reports that 274 million women are already running their own businesses across 74 economies, of which 111 million were running well-established businesses by 2016. Make a fundamental change choice. Being the change.

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Three Ways a Peer-Based Network Can Energize Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

Anyone who has taken on the risk of entrepreneurship and endured its frequent failures knows it can be a lonely path. It changed my life. You have extraordinary problem-solving abilities and are uniquely positioned to foster positive change.

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

Christina has been cross-teaching design to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to designers at institutions such as California College for the Arts, General Assembly, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, and Stanford. It will be quicker and easier to learn what you need to know, make a design change, and then test that change, since you will see patterns much more quickly when you ask everyone the same set of questions.

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Innovation Success Requires Integrated Approaches

Integrative Innovation

“But the pendulum has swung too far toward building stuff and away from spending some time getting to know your customer first”, says Bill Aulet , managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Both, lean startup and design thinking approaches leverage diverse, interdisciplinary and self-directed teams along their agile and iterative processes.

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Exploring the Intrapreneurial Way in Large Organizations

Paul Hobcraft

Are we seeing a change in mentality within large organisations towards encouraging individuals to ‘break out and become more intrapreneurial within their part of the business?’ Equally beside this younger generational need, those a little older turn to their legacy and sometimes decades of work within their organisation to want to attempt to change part of the culture and deliver some of the ideas that have been ‘frustrating them’ over time.

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Exploring the Intrapreneurial Way in Large Organizations

Paul Hobcraft

Are we seeing a change in mentality within large organisations towards encouraging individuals to ‘break out and become more intrapreneurial within their part of the business?’ Equally beside this younger generational need, those a little older turn to their legacy and sometimes decades of work within their organisation to want to attempt to change part of the culture and deliver some of the ideas that have been ‘frustrating them’ over time.

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Developing continuous learning

ImagineNation

To promote this “sold out” event, The Churchill Cub shared “keeping up with our changing world of work requires access to continuous learning and micro credentials to attain the bite sized chunks of knowledge we need. Today, companies face five challenges they never had to deal with previously: Challenge One – As companies are discovering every day, the web has changed everything. Creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity and curiosity.

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An innovation framework that offers a formula for sustainable advantage

Paul Hobcraft

The magnitude of change capacity required through innovation. The use of Business Model innovation to change the proposition. Entrepreneurship facilitates generative-learning activities as the focus. Building agility and responsiveness to constantly changing market conditions.

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Retool to win in the next decade

ImagineNation

Innovation and vitality (agility) to create differential growth against a backdrop of declining aggregate growth. Stating that to stay ahead of the key trends impacting these types of changes, leaders need to question their current assumptions and retool their companies for the coming decade. After reading and digesting these two articles, I realised that my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story, that I have shared in my last two blogs, have landed in this exact same space.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. In the medium and long term, i.e., the next 5-30 years, these changes have a high probability to negatively impact automakers, their suppliers and their dealers, along with insurance companies, finance companies, and many other industries that are part of the automotive value chain.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. In the medium and long term, i.e., the next 5-30 years, these changes have a high probability to negatively impact automakers, their suppliers and their dealers, along with insurance companies, finance companies, and many other industries that are part of the automotive value chain.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a number of senior C level executives from some of the UK’s largest retail banks to understand more about their views of the world and their perception of the market and while outwardly little looks like its changing at the Big Five banks their executives are not sitting comfortably. “Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated.

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Marc Dellaert

Innovation 360 Group

Marc developed deep expertise in individual, team and organizational leadership development, strategy design and implementation, mergers and acquisitions, innovation and change management, with a particular focus on the challenges in emerging markets. He is also an expert in agile culture and agile leadership. Marc is a keynote speaker on leadership, disruption, change and innovation, and facilitates transformational sessions with executive teams.

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A Simple Guide to Building an Engaged Team

Rmukesh Gupta

This also means that in a world with transient competitive advantage, businesses that are able to build an engaged workforce, which is also agile, becomes one of the top priority. This allows for the teams to bring in their full creative power to play and even change course as they see fit as long as they are operating in a way that suits our culture and takes us towards our objective.

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Innovating in the midst of the pandemic

Innovation Excellence

The unexpected arrival and spread of COVID 19 has caused massive and global changes, strongly impacting into the business world. Argentina [link] Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OBS School – University of Barcelona) – Business Ontological Coach (ECORE- Newfield).

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Understanding the ISO Standard for Innovation Management – Concepts & Benefits

IM Insights

12:57) The principles of The Agile Manifesto and their similarity to ISO 56000 is discussed as a set of principles rather than as a traditional standard the ISO establishes . (14:31) 18:48) Changes in the organisation’s culture and insights start with an entrepreneurial mindset.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

Fail to develop a vision and Venture Capitalists will pass you by, create a wonderful product but overlook the user experience and it won’t be adopted, create a differentiated product that doesn’t solve a need and it’ll languish on the shelf, fail to embrace digital and your competition will outpace you, develop a game changing solution before its time and it’ll tank. They use lean, agile development techniques. This article was updated on Apr 29th 2015.

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"It's so Cute You're Doing a Startup!"

Mills-Scofield

So, when asked to moderate a panel of women entrepreneurs *, I thought it was time to change the conversation. Women are agile entrepreneurs. Putting issues of funding & access aside, do women approach entrepreneurship differently than men? Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship for sponsoring this panel and a personal special thank you to Danny Warshay for such an incredible introduction !

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How Women Can Thrive in a Fast-Moving Business World

Business and Tech

million women-owned businesses in the United States, and women’s entrepreneurship is growing rapidly. Collaborating across industries to achieve systemic change is a powerful way to advance women’s rights.

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Want to Stay Relevant? Mentor!

Mills-Scofield

Yup, mine is up too - how by mentoring I'm able to continually learn new things I can use with my clients and stay on my toes by having to think fast, challenge status quo and stay agile. Please take the time to watch the videos - they will change how you think, act, and interact. The transformative stories from the BIF 2017 Summit are up!! They are all incredible so if asked to choose a few favorites I'd be challenged.

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Why invest in innovation consulting?

mjvinnovation

The change to an innovation mindset and culture can bring many benefits to companies willing to commit. Acquiring new skills, mindsets, and behaviors begins with an understanding of the need for change.

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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt

InnovationTraining.org

Adopting agile development, business model, lean startup and design thinking tools will help facilitate the innovation process. Skills Development : It is a myth that entrepreneurship cannot be learned.