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. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

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. Agile is a word adopted from software development, which is really just about stripping away a slow, steady development process replacing it with short "sprints" to complete a few features at a time.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

This definition risks making innovation an end unto itself rather than an output serving the organisation’s strategic interests. In today’s relentlessly competitive landscape, conventional modes of operation erode productive capacity.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When we think of a business having a competitive advantage, we still tend to think of traditional economic moats such as a low-cost structure, economies of scale, or perhaps a more intangible moat like a strong brand. Thus, for most businesses, the only truly lasting source of competitive advantage these days is the pace of innovation.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Competition aside, both face opposing physical forces that must be overcome to win. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

My experience spans across technology-enabled strategy and implementation to enable organizations (finance, banking, insurance, retail, telecom, logistics, healthcare) create value, take out cost, and develop competitive advantage. Enabling organizations – strategic roadmaps, IT optimization, operating model definition. Leadership.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After all, most (probably 90%) of all innovation projects undertaken in large corporations are reactive projects trying to respond to a market threat or competitive move. Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. USE A BIT OF COMPETITION. How to steer the direction into something meaningful?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Executives must agree on a common language and definition of innovation and communicate frequently and clearly about it.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups are more agile because fewer people decide. The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. Tart-up strategies assert that a fix is definitely in order but it doesn’t have to be a big change. They can lead to cost leadership.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences. The competitive advantages of disruptive innovation, including market expansion, are emphasized. [08:28] 08:28] How Should Innovation be Measured?

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

A conventional definition of digital transformation describes it as “the novel use of digital technology to solve traditional problems. This definition is basically true, but it is not particularly insightful or instructive. Leadership Buy-In and Adapting Processes Top Down is Critical. Digital Transformation is Key.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The term has its origins in Silicon Valley, where technology companies battle to find ways to innovate faster – and gain competitive advantage. During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

The evenings playing different card games or board games, as the temperatures dropped outside to minus six centigrade, the competitive nature raised the inside temperatures significantly. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Christensen that began back in 1995. Adopting new business practices is not so simple for the majority.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. accounting for dual innovation in strategy definition. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Accenture.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

They are not agile. Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward. Leaders need to set their organizations up for success by agreeing upon a definition for the term “digital transformation” or “innovation” and what it means for their company. That equates to a lot of wasted resources.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2018

How eleven of the fifty companies named in BCG’s 2018 ranking of the most innovative companies – including seven of the top ten – are digital natives and thus digital innovators by definition. Mapping Mindsets Case Study Example .

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There also seems this perpetual dilemma of clients’ wishes that are hard to reconcile with operational realities to turn their organizations from being focused on effective and efficient into agile and adaptive ,required for innovation. The one real change that is occurring is in thought leadership from consultants.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Value Blockers: ‘disrupt without disrupting, bend your business model to your corporate environment , pursue an innovation that challenges the competition but is not disruptive to your core current business, at the opposite, it leverages the key assets of the company.’ The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 5, 2017

If nothing else, growth by definition is generally modest and just the latest notch in an established pattern. By learning to go beyond reacting and responding faster (agility) to become anticipatory, you will adjust both your mindset and that of your organization as well as your results.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Value Blockers: ‘disrupt without disrupting, bend your business model to your corporate environment , pursue an innovation that challenges the competition but is not disruptive to your core current business, at the opposite, it leverages the key assets of the company.’ The internal innovator is put at the central role for innovation’.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. Now is the time to sprint ahead of the competition by applying to strategy the tools that innovators have proven to be effective. Highlights. Derek F.

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The Human Factor

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

By elite brain, I don’t necessarily mean being smarter than the competition or having advanced degrees or multiple fancy acronyms after our names. This ability to create new pathways in our brains is the key to effective leadership. It takes dedication and focus to develop new thinking habits. Once a day focus.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 6, 2021

Adaptability, flexibility, resilience and agility. Strategy definition. Low Cost Leadership : Here the rule is simple: win the market by offering a lower price than your competitors. See: a good strategy can be your company’s competitive advantage. It represents your strengths and how you deal with impacts.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 14, 2018

Digitization is a genuine source of competitive advantage . Eleven of the fifty companies named in BCG’s 2018 ranking of the most innovative companies – including seven of the top ten — are digital natives and thus digital innovators by definition. Digitization is a pervasive trend across all industries. Organization.

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David Marks

OCTOBER 27, 2017

There are definitely merits to that approach. Companies get away with it because most of the time the competition does indeed comes from existing players. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. There is clearly a need for industry specific innovation services. A ‘better the devil we know’ attitude.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Definitely. . Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints. These are open entry design competitions where any designer can sketch a design without the usual requirements. People usually think leadership means just telling everyone what to do, but a more effective style is servant leadership.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. accounting for dual innovation in strategy definition. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Accenture.

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are three basic types of business transformation: Agile, digital, and organizational. Agile Transformation Creates Flexibility. Agile transformation reaches beyond Agile software development practices to include transitioning an entire organization to nimble practices and mindsets. Evolve to Servant Leadership.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The source of competitive advantage is disruption, and whoever manages to survive it will differentiate themselves within the invisible hand of the market. Understanding what your PMF is means gaining one more tool to analyze your company’s performance in a competitive environment. Decipher your user once and for all!

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 31, 2017

It is no surprise either when that having such an engaged workforce can and does become a true competitive advantage. 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. Building an Engaged Team.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Competition is now global. What is the Definition of “Agile”?

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

This requires companies to proactively or reactively innovate their business models in order to remain competitive. The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Cases in point: Lego and Burberry.

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The Human Factor

AUGUST 16, 2016

Keeping your definition of winning a secret – either on purpose or by default – does not support a culture of accountability. This ignites the competitive spirit and desire to win in most people, and is one of the fastest ways to prompt their brains to think about something. No Secrets!

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is because innovation by its definition is not clear on what the final outcome should be. The most accepted definition of innovation is: Innovation is turning an idea into a solution which adds value to both the company and the customer. Unfortunately, innovation projects usually have none of the above criteria. works: L.I.V.E.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

In short, the key words of SPOT are : understanding, immersion, consolidation and problem definition. Spot : 3 weeks -1,5 months / Play : 1 – 3 months and Go : 1-3 months (with the agile method Play and Go often overlap). and what is the value proposition of Shake my firm, and how it differentiates from competition?

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