Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. But how can you tell when it is needed?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

More than two thirds of executives surveyed in IBM’s latest research report said that HR is ripe for disruption – and the time is now to make a move to fundamentally change the way organizations think about their human resources department. Invest in the new role of leadership. Image courtesy of IBM study.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As we peer into the abyss of AI’s limitless potential, we must equip ourselves not only with agility but with structured methodologies, visionary strategies, and a commitment to professional standards. In the past, agility served as a lifeline, allowing organizations to pivot quickly in response to unforeseen disruptions.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week, we take a look at Innovation Leadership - how has the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) evolved into the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), and how important is leadership in the age of crowdsourcing anyway? The Evolution from Management to Leadership. The Importance of Agile Leadership.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

That could be a new product, of course, which is what people usually think of. To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). Magazine Great Leadership Speaker. Let’s get started.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 11, 2023

Of course, this is not limited to having less scrap as a manufacturing company or offering fewer refunds to dissatisfied customers as a retailer. Yes, cost savings by way of using an Anticipatory Mindset to get in front of disruption is certainly a prominent factor as a business or organization. Accessible Software-as-a-Service.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. Other functional areas of the business started to also apply that thinking to how they can deliver with agility. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto , we are living in a drastically different world.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route.

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Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change. Experimentation is intentional, informed, and controlled – it’s taking calculated risks to test a hypothesis, and is encouraged in an Agile environment. Strategic drift is not malicious.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 26, 2022

They paint a picture of safety by staying the course in their lives, and by all means, they will protect and defend it to the very end. It lets you more accurately predict what’s to come to stay ahead of disruption caused by stagnation! This one is almost too simple to be such a catastrophic disruption of a company’s status quo.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As long as you keep improving at that consistent pace, your competitors can only catch you if they move even faster – or if they change the game entirely by disrupting the market. And, any gross margin you generate can of course be funnelled back into your business to help you innovate even faster, which makes this a virtuous cycle.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 21, 2021

Instead of a customer paying hundreds of dollars a month for more channels he or she may not watch as a “perk,” TV networks are splitting off on their own and transforming the broadcast industry just as much as Netflix disrupted Blockbuster all those years ago. Capitalizing on Disruption. Anticipate to Become the Disruptor.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Most startups state that their aim is to be disruptive or to disrupt a specific industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 15, 2016

Then I reviewed Deliottes report on how leadership within Boardrooms is being disrupted and equally struggling to get their ‘collective heads’ around disruption and how innovation can, or cannot , dig them out of the threats they are facing. Both reports, as I was reviewing them, left me a little depressed to say the least.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. The “disruptive innovation” era is over.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Others are being disrupted. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.” You can’t have a complete lean innovation practice without the agile component. Competition is now global.

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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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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Addressing this disparity is essential as business leaders navigate a landscape where the implications of tech debt are interwoven within the fabric of their broader responsibilities, fostering informed decision-making and cohesive collaboration between leadership and the IT domain.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Overhaul though, I was a little disappointed, as it lacked the real leadership insights you come to expect, strong personalities did not seem to shine through this year from the speakers and panelists give. Of course, it will be a very uncomfortable journey I fear. Being fully connected-up will teach us to be adaptive, agile and alert.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 21, 2021

The increased complexity and endless disruptions of the modern world brought on by the transition to the digital age means uncertainty is everywhere. It’s not failure at all, of course. They may be design thinkers, agile developers, or people who have worked in startups before. Some people call it agile. See who shows up!

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

The likelihood of that happening is, of course, dependent on your definition of innovation. Original: Horizon 1 describes the work necessary to protect and extend existing revenue sources that can be done in the near term, as a regular course of doing business. Innovator’s take: Horizon 3 is breakthrough or disruptive innovation.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

It’s one thing to tell people to “go disrupt yourself”, give them great books to read, share examples, etc. Through some wonderful research over the course of more than 3 decades, Richard Byrd and his daughter Jacqueline Byrd developed a very robust approach to understanding why some of us are more innovative than others.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Earlier McKinsey research found that companies prioritizing business building perform better, grow faster, and are more resilient to volatility and disruptions. In general, business building allows incumbents to blend startups' agility and rapid growth potential with their resources and established wisdom. Easier said than done.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 1, 2020

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. This global pandemic has quickly taught us a lesson in exponential growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 19, 2016

The energy sector is ripe for disruption (again GE specific). Disruptive Innovation: the solution and the challenge. In Dr.Schwab’s constant conversations with global CEO’s the acceleration of innovation and the velocity of disruption are for most hard to comprehend or even anticipate. More on that later.

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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? A recent survey from consulting group EY ( EY Ecosystem Study ) shows a 12.9%

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ImagineNation

JUNE 3, 2019

In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning game. When designing courses, I always centred the meta-design around defining an agreed set of desired core emotional states (feel), mindsets (think) and capabilities (act). New best practices.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

This requires risk taking, of course, since no one can foresee the outcome or results of such initiatives. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Engine 2 efforts are disruptive and potentially game changing. Accenture: 2015 US Innovation Survey. Source: Accenture.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

Just trying to stay your own course is tough enough but with all the diversity of views it must be even more overwhelming for others who are asked to take on a role within innovation. Agility Innovation Specialists. Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation. Its areas of focus: [link].

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 26, 2020

Businesses and organizations are transitioning away from “crisis” mode and into “the new normal” with the understanding that we live in a VUCA world where disruptions are part of the norm. Contact us online to get started designing your training session, or browse through our online courses today.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Of course, before going to the CFO, you would have identified his or her greatest pain and presented the idea or concept in a way that solved that challenge. However, because you’ve anticipated the likely objections, you would reply, “I’ve already run this by the CFO because I knew it was important.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

How to reverse this course and arrange a win-win-win situation (for the corporate, the innovation units, and the customers)? Crossing The Chasm: Two Competing Value-Creation Systems According to Linda, corporations can drive meaningful growth by disrupting themselves from the inside out or the outside in.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You get the impression those in Europe’s leadership are beating back the waves of progress, not embracing them- it is all self-serving. Yet we see growing polarization as people can’t see the future as the European leadership itself, bickers and argues. Of course, the Brits are to blame!

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 13, 2017

That kind of mindset runs counter to a competency that many organizations wear as a badge of pride—agility, which is the ability to react to change quickly. In their eyes, spotting fires such as disruptions and problems quickly and putting them out as fast as possible is the best way to deal with the increasing pace of change.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve learned from the collapse of Kodak, Blockbuster, RadioShack and other once-prominent organizations that a corporate culture designed to uphold and manage existing success can actually become the arch nemesis of an enterprise that needs to be agile in order to evolve to meet the needs of quickly changing global markets.

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CREATORS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We have created this list because we wanted to present all the great individuals we have encountered in our GovTech work all in one place but also inspire the next generation of GovTech leadership. Of course, we are aware that we might have missed some incredible people? “I There is space for many more people?—?startups,

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