Leapfrogging

MARCH 11, 2025

Facilitates agility and adaptation Encourages ongoing refinement of strategy based on results. Marketing teams (customer education on sustainability). Measure Performance and Adjust Strategies Tracking progress against strategic objectives ensures that businesses stay on course and make necessary adjustments.

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System Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 130

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience. A culture that is adaptable, innovative, and collaborative can better withstand market fluctuations and respond to challenges swiftly and effectively.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But all of this innovation activity seems somewhat quaint, like planning to take your Model T out on the highway, or bringing a pocket knife to a gun fight, in light of what's happening in the market. Product innovation is of course necessary for survival.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In a nutshell, the pace of innovation is simply the speed at which an organization can improve their existing products and services, but also at which it is able to introduce new ones to capture the needs of the constantly evolving markets they operate in. The difference is profound, as you’ll soon see. The perfect example of this is SpaceX.

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Competition Innovation Software Marketing 293

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

Innovation stands in service to strategic goals such as growing market share, differentiation, and disrupting adjacent markets, serving the consistent changing and demanding customer needs, or by honing the delivery process by spotting these and then exploiting them rapidly and effectively.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

How to Dig Up Innovation Gold : Market Recon : Get real with market waves and hear the buzz from customers. Keep Learning: Offer courses and sessions so your bunch stays sharp and on par with the times. Market Grip : Keep tabs on your spot in the market night thanks to your killer offerings.

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Strategy Strategy Innovation Artificial Inteligence 113

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The above quote is just one of the numerous motivational phrases scattered in frames here at MJV Marketing. Our marketing team has grown a lot over the years. MJV Marketing: A World of Challenges. Before Agile, MJV’s marketing team encountered many difficulties in dealing with its routine challenges.

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Agile Marketing Course Design Thinking 52

Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions. How do they go about humanising agility?

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Agile Creativity Learning Change 52

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy.

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LEAN Agile Industry Analysis 195

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 31, 2019

Just one more post about the importance of speed and agility and I'll leave this tired trope alone. Building on these or other platforms, one can get to the market much more quickly and efficiently for digital products. So good digital processes and insights CAN offer more speed to insight, speed to product and speed to market.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

However, adapting to this new environment doesn’t just mean investing in the latest hardware and software on the market. leaders will foster a transparent and creative culture that isn’t afraid of agile changes and evolution. This could mean investing in: Specialist training courses. There’s more to Industry 4.0

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 27, 2018

Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react.

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Innovation Radical Innovation Agile Design 185

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? We need to design our systems to be highly agile. It adjusts and you learn.

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Design Technical Review Innovation Agile 232

Planview

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.

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Agile eBook LEAN Industry 59

etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Software Developers 56

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Of course, much of what we have will still remain. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. Now we have to weave them together. This does need a real change but can we achieve it?

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Innovation Design Agile Innovation Processes 178

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And what happens when corporations with business models and structures and governing capabilities built for slower change and market dominance meet the agile, nimble competitors and shifting customer expectations at this unexpected crossroads? Innovation has been a watchword for corporations for about 20 years.

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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 instance, a company weak in social media could benefit from a marketing student who specializes in social media or user experience.

Collaboration 174

Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Innovation 174

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

Whether we are talking about change in your global markets, in your industry or in your customer base, change is everywhere. The question isn't even: should we become more agile or more nimble? The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative.

Change 113

Change Agile Industry Marketing 113

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

So, the marketing of Design Thinking kicks in, looking to capitalize and add a real momentum. It quickly became simply sold as a process, just like Six Sigma, it became limited by those jumping on the latest concept not being true design thinkers, apart from attending a short course or two. The ramping up begins.

Design Thinking 238

Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 238

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

Agile 52

Agile Roadmap Competition Strategy 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

Agile 52

Agile Roadmap Competition Strategy 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

Agile 52

Agile Roadmap Competition Strategy 52

Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

Agile 52

Agile System Software Change 52

Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

Agile 52

Agile System Software Change 52

Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

Agile 52

Agile System Software Change 52

Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Increasingly this means that most companies are likely to hone their incremental innovation skills, which in reality are an extension of familiar activities combining lean, agile and Six Sigma, and I believe will partner with startups and external firms to create interesting or disruptive new ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Disruption Internet of things 147

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 14, 2020

How prepared are you for consistently falling prices Price increases - except of course for the price increases for food and health care. Financial markets - we may need to prepare for wild swings in the markets as an ongoing reality, and dramatic shifts in the availability of capital and the price of money.

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Agile Trends Marketing Course 100

ITONICS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Once again, the Innovation Alliance successfully trained employees as Agile Innovation Managers. From Ideas To Market. Everyone agrees that the training provided new, practice-oriented incentives and insights (and of course lots of fun). The post Congratulations to the new Agile Innovation Managers 2017!

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Agile Innovation Management Management Training 49

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

Company 253

Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 253

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

Executive commitment - It's hard enough to get the existing products or services to market, let alone try to create new solutions in an uncertain innovation process. You need to find the creative thinkers, the outliers, the people plugged into customers and markets. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover. Want more innovation?

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Innovation Agile Culture Product Development 129

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's the natural order of economics that when an opportunity is available, everything rushes in to fill the vacuum, and as the market becomes crowded various offerings must differentiate themselves from the others to demonstrate value. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.

LEAN 100

LEAN Innovation Agile Software 100

CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Creativity, agility, and communication help them identify new opportunities and adjust their course effectively. Grow Profitability and Market Share with Strategic Thinking At its best, strategic thinking aligns your efforts with broad organizational goals for growth.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Ideation Resources 52

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

As innovators we aren’t simply responding to external change, we are creating change, both for customers and for our companies and markets. Innovation requires increasing agility, flexibility and allowing creativity to flourish on a constant, evolving basis. the inside, proactive change vs external, reactive impact).

Innovation 124

Innovation Agile Change Learning 124

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. Consumers are returning to the markets at a record pace, and thanks to the government's largess we have more funds to spend. But we are asking the wrong question.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Innovation Processes 135