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Are These Agile Transformation Blind Spots Holding You Back?

Planview

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. I sat down recently (and virtually, of course!)

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GFi Innovation — Fall Training Course Schedule

Gregg Fraley

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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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

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.

Agile 79
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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Of course, not all friction is bad. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. But they are manageable.

Strategy 130
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The great GE innovation experiment

Jeffrey Phillips

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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Drift Happens: Strategic Drift and What to Do About It

Planview

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.

Course 52
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Modern leadership styles and innovation: The boss doesn’t always know best!

Wazoku

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.