Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way. Agile: you do not make Agile; you become Agile.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keep reading to see how successful executives are achieving results in their everyday business through incorporating agile methodologies like SCRUM! The agile mindset. Before we get into the agile mindset, we need to remember that it is linked to Agile Philosophy. What are the main functions of a SCRUM team?

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mjvinnovation

MAY 16, 2019

Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In this article, you will understand what agile practices are, what benefits this approach offers to your company. What are Agile Practices. Check it out! How Sprint Works.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 8, 2019

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. The practice is very common within agile logic. The multidisciplinarity of the team exists for a reason.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

I was asked recently to write a short post about the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed. It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022. Get alignment and clarity about your success criteria. Everyone is born creative.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Time, in several dimensions When I am talking about time I am actually talking about several different "kinds" of time.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I've been thinking a lot lately about innovation in corporations, first, because that's what I've been doing for close to twenty years, and second, because I kept wondering when the switch would flip and we'd see more consistent innovation from large corporations on a continuing basis.

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Wazoku

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

At this year's Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen, I moderated a roundtable discussion on some of the challenges businesses face when trying to build a more agile organisation, grow a culture of innovation and navigate leadership and mindset. We think about innovation in 3 horizons: 1-7 years, 7-25 years or 25+ years out.

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The Human Factor

MAY 4, 2020

I call this strategic agility. – Developing strategic agility starts with getting clear on winning even if it is for very short term timeframes. Very few of them are sitting around thinking about your EBITDA targets! Feedback has always been an essential ingredient of high-performing teams. And then…what else?

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2023

About 20 years ago, three market forces converged that radically changed information technology forever. One of my partners talked about having a stack of forms for people to use when the system went down. That only comes when the individuals planning the implementation think critically about everything.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 15, 2020

No one is quite sure what the future holds - many have ideas or predictions - but there are few definitives. We'll get signals over the next few quarters about what to change, but so will everyone else. There are also different attitudes about change - some are ready to change, and were pushing for it before COVID. Why change?

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Planview

AUGUST 12, 2022

And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts. A product-focused strategy and mindset can create agile organizations, increase productivity, and drive innovation.

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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. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Rise of Continuous Value Measurement: In the swiftly changing terrain of today’s business world, the definition of value is not stagnant but constantly evolving. It involves laying out clear assumptions about the expected value a particular initiative will deliver.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It's about that time of year where we begin to look back, to think about what we've accomplished and what lies ahead. I think most management teams believe they can accomplish incremental innovation in house, and they are happy with that result. Digital transformation almost goes without saying.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

By entrusting team members with achieving objectives that impact the greater organization, leaders create a sense of ownership. Teams and their leaders should collaborate to define their missions, outcomes, and metrics that measure progress toward the desired result. A major new feature release might be out of scope.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

The debate is about whether or not to fund innovation work, and if the decision is positive, how much to spend or invest in innovation. The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? But we are asking the wrong question.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. As so many organizations are embarking on this journey towards becoming more innovative and agile, there’s unfortunately a lot of fake agile and innovation theater out there.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Jim Collins’ definition of the Stockdale Paradox teaches us that our faith that we will prevail in the end must be balanced with confronting the brutal facts of a situation—and given the challenging reality that we have all been living through since early 2020, this idea now seems more relevant than ever. So we changed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Note that what my clients are asking for is to create an innovation capacity that outlasts a product need, or market gap, or executive team member. First, make innovation important to the CEO and the executive team. How do you make innovation important to an executive team?

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

It seems so funny, looking back on a meeting I attended about 20 years ago. He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. You don't need to worry any more about someone moving your cheese. Of course most of us read it and thought - hmm - that's interesting. What to do?

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The Human Factor

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I call this strategic agility. Strategic agility is the ability to quickly and appropriately respond to or drive change while maintaining flexibility and focus. Developing strategic agility starts with getting clear on winning. Very few of them are sitting around thinking about your EBITDA targets! And then…what else?

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 2, 2023

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

Most big companies think technology when thinking about innovation, regardless of whether or not they’re technology companies. Marketing tends to have their own way of talking about innovation. Is there any Fortune 500 company that doesn’t talk about their innovation capabilities in their “About Us” section of their website?

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The work undertaken is often seen as a drain, not repeatable, and poor on the efficient definition of understanding we have in place today as the work undertaken, not yielding the returns if the concept is more radical due to time horizons or business model constraints. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management. That is my place.

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. But while business leaders often use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, it’s often little more than a buzzword—and a fervent wish. HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 21, 2020

It is essential to rethink routines and reorganize spaces to create an environment of productivity and definitive performance. Unlike high-touch, the focus of these customers are the search for automated solutions and a preference for ARUs (Audible Response Unit), voice and chatbots that offer more agile service.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The 2020s will be remembered for many reasons, but I predict this will be the decade when building innovation ecosystems will become “the thing” to do — just as significant and powerful as the six sigma initiatives were in the 1990s and agile practices in the 2000s. It’s quality over quantity just as it is effectiveness over efficiency.

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IdeaScale

MAY 19, 2021

It Teaches You About Perspective. What about a silver medalist in the Olympics? This is the key lesson about failure: Almost all failure is context-specific. And by what definition? The question is how your team handles this when it happens. of the time. Cringing yet? Are they a failure?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Accelerated Value is all about enabling customers to achieve their desired business outcomes as quickly and as effortlessly as possible. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Innov8rs | As innovation leaders and teams we are tasked to enable our organizations to innovate at scale. He regularly speaks and writes about innovation to business audiences and hosts a weekly podcast on innovation. The Jobs in Innovation Management For starters, this does require a change in how we think about jobs.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We caught up with the founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital, Ariana Smetana, to find out more about the business and how it helps companies to implement open innovation initiatives. Ariana Smetana, founder and CEO of AccelIQ Digital Could you tell us about your career journey and how you became involved in innovation?

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