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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

But you'll need to focus on at least one other major change barrier, and that's your corporate culture. For decades, we've nurtured a careful, risk adverse, wait and see culture in most businesses, which is reinforced by compensation models, personnel recruitment and promotion, little tolerance for risk and uncertainty. Need proof?

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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance

Leapfrogging

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.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

Agile” and “Waterfall” offer us very different approaches to project management. Agile design, on the other hand, begins without a clear endpoint, assuming that any presumptions about results may bias or limit our opportunities and options. Core Elements of Agile. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures.

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How to Embed Agile Thinking at Every Level of Your Company

CMOE

The leaders at each of these levels perform different duties, but no matter where you sit in the organization, agile thinking matters. The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. Simply endeavoring to implement the agile process will not suffice.

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The Path to Innovation: Implementing Effective Team Collaboration Practices

Leapfrogging

Organizations with strong collaborative practices often see improvements in productivity, efficiency, and agility. Responding to Modern Work Trends The modern workplace is characterized by rapid technological advancements, distributed teams, and a shift towards more agile and dynamic work structures.

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Qmarkets and OmniStrada Partner to Empower Asian Businesses with Continuous Improvement Culture & Capabilities

Qmarkets

Together, we will help businesses across Asia implement continuous improvement processes and nurture an innovation culture to drive efficiencies, build resilience and unlock growth potential. With a network of experienced and reliable partners and specialists, it believes in LEAN, AGILE, and PRAGMATIC strategies.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. This transaction is pending the final approval of Imaginatik shareholders by January 31, 2019.

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