Planview

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. To buy in to Agile, leaders need to understand what’s in it for them.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to build a strong case, stay informed, and think critically is the key to unlocking success and driving innovation. Here, market trends evolve, new technologies emerge, and consumer preferences shift lightning-fast. For me, this landscape is marked by its dynamism.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 29, 2019

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. There’s little surprise that the agile framework has taken off.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2020

Recent research suggests that some key learning and development (L&D) strategies hold the answers you’ve been searching for. Agile Training Breeds Innovation. Agile is yet another term used by professionals across industries, especially when it comes to formulating an impactful innovation strategy. Innovation and training?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

How do you know whether your Agile transformation is on the right track, or heading in the right direction? Understanding Agile transformation metrics for executives is key to proving the ROI of your Agile transformation. Read Next: Are these Agile transformation blind spots holding you back? Start with “Why”.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 12, 2017

To jump ahead with both confidence and lower risk, you will need more than agility. Reading about how others approach the global market can be equally intriguing and frustrating. What was number one on the list of attributes central to effective global market leadership? That’s where learning to be Anticipatory comes into play.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. Having a robust strategy helps you anticipate and respond to changes, whether they come from emerging technologies, evolving customer preferences, or competitive pressures.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 16, 2023

They are very short synopsis to get this base for my thinking and understanding, of why innovation processes and its management needs to change and how. Let me provide these: Increased agility : Embracing a Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework enables organizations to be more agile in responding to market changes and customer needs.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

We continually learn, at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. But it’s not always easy to identify them.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This approach supports a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, and external collaboration, positioning the organization for sustained success in an ever-evolving business landscape that recognizes and learns how to collaborate and co-create, moving towards recognizing the value of Business Ecosystems.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

We are all presently learning a new practice. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice, and think forward, to which the term next practice becomes the learning spot. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

According to him, innovation involves the introduction of genuinely new ideas or solutions to the world, with a keen focus on how these innovations are received within the market. For him, innovation is about introducing something new and meaningful to the world, with a focus on both the idea itself and its reception in the market.

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Learning Agile Culture Design 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you just diving into innovations, this sort of strategic conversation can change the goalposts, alter the perspective, and can give the innovation a more focused framing to build propositions around. The direction you go requires the organizational focus to build the type of capabilities, resources, and processes to match this.

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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. A startling 85% of executives say their organization’s ability to adapt to change falls short. Let’s get started.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Markets today are radically changing and are more demanding.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. We all need to seek out that badge of “agility”.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 18, 2022

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. There’s been this tendency to kind of munge agile together with lean manufacturing and lean startup or lean innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. Lean Startup: This approach was about creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and testing it in the market to get customer feedback.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Agile Innovation 182

Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Increased Agility: Leaders who think strategically are more adaptable and can pivot quickly in response to changing market conditions.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Increased Agility: Leaders who think strategically are more adaptable and can pivot quickly in response to changing market conditions.

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Strategy Strategy Strategic Thinking Leadership 100

Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. Just to learn what it is. He is prepared to change.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. Just to learn what it is. He is prepared to change.

Agile 52

Agile System Software Change 52

Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. Just to learn what it is. He is prepared to change.

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Agile System Software Change 52

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 8, 2022

We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities. The shifts will change how each country and company compete.

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CMOE

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, it is the perfect time to reflect on lessons we’ve learned throughout the year and plan for 2024’s uncertainties. By taking stock of these experiences, we can better plan for the upcoming year and foster a learning mindset to ensure that 2024 is a success.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. Our individual problem often lies in the time we have to discover, learn and explore new and different things. As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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mjvinnovation

MAY 29, 2019

Agile Frameworks help the business team experience an Agile mindset in practice. With Agile Frameworks, business processes become more dynamic, staggering business values and productivity. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. 5 Most used Agile Frameworks. Where to apply.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 21, 2024

In a rapidly changing business environment, explicitly considering ecosystems enables organizations to navigate uncertainty better, respond to dynamic challenges, and build capabilities for sustained adaptability. Agile Responses: Why Ecosystems? Ecosystems support agility. Adaptability and Resilience: Why Ecosystems?

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ChatGPT Collaboration Agile Design 162

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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Case Study Innovation Design Collaboration 147

Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Achieving any dynamics within the system generates the potential for change. The Dynamic Ecosystem Embark on a journey to the layer that epitomizes the collective pursuit of sustaining excellence amidst change— building a Dynamic Resilience Network. The Dynamic Ecosystem is a transformational part of future-proofing the business.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It drives growth, differentiation, and value creation, allowing companies to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market. Businesses that innovate can respond to shifts in consumer behavior, leverage emerging technologies, and enter new markets with agility.

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Design Thinking Artificial Inteligence Design Analysis 140

Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. By leveraging experiential insights, executive teams are better positioned to anticipate market trends, customer needs, and potential disruptions.

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Leadership Innovation Collaboration Culture 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

I believe today; the innovation management process requires this fresh mandate to drive change to bring the process into today’s more technical period where our systems need to operate seamlessly and flow across the organization and the entire innovation process. I believe we need to leverage technology, concepts, and design thinking.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 147

mjvinnovation

JUNE 11, 2021

The Scaled Agile Framework is a methodology derived from agile methods, focusing on a project to disseminate agile thinking and practices in an organizational context, from management to teams. Read until the end of this article and learn our step-by-step system to implement SAFe in your company! What is SAFe?

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