Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. To foster a strategic mindset among your leadership team, consider the insights from 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. Innovation projects should be valued like insurance policies.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. The resounding success of TSYS’ Project WOW provides invaluable lessons for leaders in the financial sector looking to drive continuous improvement across all fronts.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Inspired CEOs, Senior Leaders, and Human Resource Directors invoke the word religiously and God-knows-how-many hallways and conference rooms are plastered with cheesy posters of earnest looking people rowing a boat together. WORKSHOP: Launching Project Teams. WORKSHOP: Agile Leadership/Agile Teams. Who We Are.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. We all sketch before we design, but too often the sketches go in a drawer when the project starts, often never to be seen again. Agile teams can lose the long term direction by focusing on small sprints.

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Technology Created

AUGUST 24, 2014

He won six division championships, two conference championships and two Super Bowls. But one of the best things about the coach was his leadership, something sorely missing in today’s consensus-driven culture. And his leadership began every year the same way in the first moment the team was together.

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Planview

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Whether it was at one of our Ignite Innovation Summits or our recent Horizons conference, a common theme connecting many of my conversations was this: While innovation programs built on ideas alone can be successful, they are typically not sustainable. All of a sudden, they were no longer tied to long-term, high-risk innovation projects.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Embracing Flexibility and Agility In a rapidly changing business environment, staying nimble is more than a virtue—it’s a necessity.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

Leaders must change before they have to, and they must enable their organization to surf the incoming global shockwaves with intelligence, agility, strength, and command.”. “When they do, leaders and organizations can actually accelerate performance,” adds Sweetman. His projects have received prizes in the areas of leadership and change.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Meetings can take place in a variety of environments, from a traditional conference room to a more unique offsite or virtual setting. When it comes to building an innovative meeting format that works for your team and project, allow the following approaches to serve as inspiration! Agile Stand-Up. Idea Sharing.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2017

On a crisp early November day, innovators from around the world convened for Open Nation, IdeaScale’s annual conference celebrating innovation. Wing Tang of IKEA sat for a fireside interview (the fire was projected) with IdeaScale CEO Rob Hoehn to talk about how the spirit of inclusion that drives their crowdsourcing efforts.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I’ve made the mistake many times of assuming too much–assuming that help was wanted, or even needed; assuming that people understood the terms I used, like ‘deliverable’; assuming that everyone bought into the value of design in general, or on this specific project. Clients may come with projects that are about to launch.

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Innovation Conference Education & Networking.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Idea campaigns can work, but only if it’s done with a focused question, and, that focus is connected to a mandated project. And that’s a good thing. Who’s getting the training? This creates cynicism.

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