Planview

MAY 16, 2022

To me, this includes being connected as people around a common purpose; those people being connected to a shared strategic vision; and that vision being connected to the market and context it is in (which, of course, changes over time). Prioritizing Connection Within Our Leadership Team. Who learns anything in that environment?

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Think about some of the most powerful and industry-disruptive products and services that have changed the game through today, and try to put them in context with the concept of agility.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Click on the course title to register. It’s fall and it’s time to go back to school. REGISTER NOW. REGISTER NOW.

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Guide 4 Innovating

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Agility holds a special interest for me. I named my consulting business Agility Innovation Specialists and constantly am looking to emphasize that agility is really important to managing innovation. My takeaways from this: “Learning agility is a reliable indicator of potential for leadership roles.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If we take the three ‘classic’ strategic thrusts of product leadership, operational excellence, or customer intimacy, then we need to make clear the potentially different emphasis points within any suggested innovation approach that we should take.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". As change accelerates and there's an increasing need to be agile or nimble, getting smaller and faster is key. All business must be fast, agile and innovative.

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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. Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

turns HR into its own agile consulting organization that focuses not only on delivering services, but also practices design thinking to push innovative solutions, tools, and transparency into the organization. Invest in the new role of leadership. Build and apply capabilities in agile and design thinking (more on this below).

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Wazoku

JULY 29, 2019

But not all businesses are run in this way and leadership comes in many different forms. Let’s explore the nature of modern leadership in business, look at how extending crowdsourcing beyond the executive teams impacts a business and how this all ties into building and fostering a culture of innovation. The nature of modern leadership.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. In the world of Agile, reflection comes in the form of a formal retrospective that is done with the team after an important stage, event, or project. This is a great session for a leadership program.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. Key Principles of an Agile and Innovative Organization .

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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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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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The Human Factor

MAY 2, 2018

Running a successful business, no matter how big or small, starts and ends with effective leadership. These leadership principles apply to all types and sizes of businesses. From my perspective, here’s what effective leadership looks like in a small business. Get clear on winning. Teach employees the business of the business.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 15, 2023

Through OKRs, an organization can effectively chart its course, defining the objectives it wants to achieve (the North Star), and the key results that will indicate progress. In this context, agility is not merely relegated to tech development but permeates the entire business.

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PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 27, 2023

Following are the seven steps to help you prepare for eventual certification, providing your organization with the upper hand that leaves your rivals in the dust while you burn rubber towards market leadership. Step 2: Leadership “Don’t lead the pack unless you know where you’re going.”

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. For example, most students are digital natives who have grown up with a different technological perspective than individuals in leadership.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Of course most of us read it and thought - hmm - that's interesting. Today, we need to think more about "built to change", more agile, more nimble and more creative than in the past. And if you can't innovate, you will perish.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

52% of projects veer off course —either going over budget, missing deadlines, or not meeting the set expectations. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation. Conversely, the leadership for ISO 56001 isn’t as clear-cut. That’s concerning. Their skill set?

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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. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play. This is of course a combination of process, type, outcome and degree. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. to work so well in agile.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Also, I have a huge amount of respect for leading people strategist Josh Bersin who I know is also a strong proponent of human-centred leadership. Well, there’s one controversial word that I use in almost every keynote to senior leadership audiences who want to talk about building a culture of innovation.

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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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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. This means having leadership that trusts and motivates everyone to share, collaborate on, and prototype their ideas, no matter how crazy they may initially sound. Read the Full Story.

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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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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

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. So agile in fact, that he drove his senior leadership team crazy. And I found one. The Innovation Equation.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Drag in the business context often manifests itself at the strategic level and can be experienced by such adverse indicators as sluggish market moves, inability to change direction with agility, and companywide misalignment of strategies and objectives. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With the right combination of visionary leadership, an engaged team and a determination to do things properly—plus timing and opportunity—Kroger’s small team scored an influential early win with Project Jigsaw. Defined as the movement of value from customer insight to product delivery, flow is a fundamental prerequisite to Agile success.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Over the course of a dozen or so workshops, I have heard participants make a couple common observations. For those that score themselves highly, the consistent reason why comes down to leadership. The organization’s leadership wants the employee to continuously challenge the current way of doing things. Design thinking.

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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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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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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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Ecosystems4Innovating

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. Clear strategy leadership, a different organizational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality.

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