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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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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. To buy in to Agile, leaders need to understand what’s in it for them.

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Agile Leadership

CMOE

Speed and agility are the ultimate competitive weapons. If you create a culture of agility, you create a significant competitive advantage that is hard to replicate. Realizing the benefits of agility across the enterprise requires individual contributors who can adapt and change as well as agile leaders working in all functions.

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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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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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Returning to the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

Economic and Strategic Advantage: By keeping the emphasis on it being a practitioner’s approach , it moves thinking and design closer to a more immediate economic advantage through adaptability, innovation agility, and ecosystem sensing. Governance failures are a significant contributor and impact 85% of all Ecosystems that fail.