Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Managers and leaders are recognizing that fostering team collaboration practices can yield a more agile and responsive organization. Increased Agility: Teams that collaborate well can adapt more quickly to changes in the business environment, maintaining a competitive edge.

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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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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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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.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 13, 2024

From generative AI to digital currency, these digital disruptions are definitely leaving their impact. When it comes to the concept of disruptions in this world, we tend to focus on all the new digital tools that are creating ripples in headlines. The word “disruption” is a key stumbling point for many.

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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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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. Agile is a word adopted from software development, which is really just about stripping away a slow, steady development process replacing it with short "sprints" to complete a few features at a time.

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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

This definition risks making innovation an end unto itself rather than an output serving the organisation’s strategic interests. A fresher narrative of ‘A Culture FOR Innovation’ treats innovation as the desired outcome enabled by thoughtfully combining various cultural elements and initiatives.

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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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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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The Human Factor

MAY 2, 2018

Running a successful business, no matter how big or small, starts and ends with effective leadership. These leadership principles apply to all types and sizes of businesses. From my perspective, here’s what effective leadership looks like in a small business. Get clear on winning. Teach employees the business of the business.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

It truly doesn’t matter which definition you land on. The desired outcomes are more important than the definition. But leadership should be agnostic about how they achieve the desired outcomes. It is the integration of human-centered design, rapid experimentation, and working agile. It’s how to deal with uncertainty.”.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Perhaps not in how we humans evolve - but definitely in terms of how businesses and technologies evolve. Today, we need to think more about "built to change", more agile, more nimble and more creative than in the past.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 17, 2018

Enabling organizations – strategic roadmaps, IT optimization, operating model definition. Area of expertise: Lean & Agile Management. Agile Engineering Practices. Leadership. Solving complex problems – capability transformation, large-scale program delivery and turnaround. DevOps Practices. Business Strategy.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 13, 2020

5) Encourages leadership teams to tackle challenging circumstances with practical innovation. Transforming into a learning organization is indeed a time-consuming process, but you will notice that the benefits you achieve will definitely outweigh the work that you have to put into it.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation depends on finding the most innovative people, who by definition are rarely the more efficient people. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma. Efficient people run day to day operations really well and defend those products and practices.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Executives must agree on a common language and definition of innovation and communicate frequently and clearly about it.

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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. Institutionalize Agility.

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Measuring innovation becomes a key focus, with an emphasis on balancing leadership’s need for certainty with employees’ concerns about potential consequences. Follow insights on two contrasting perspectives on measuring innovation: leadership’s desire for certainty and employees’ concerns about potential repercussions.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 7, 2023

Periodically observe behavior like agile ceremonies, without taking over. Embracing Leadership, Not Project Management Delegation is not about becoming a project manager. This requires an understanding of the desired outcomes, and a clear definition of what success looks like. Increase the frequency of check-ins.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups are more agile because fewer people decide. Tart-up strategies assert that a fix is definitely in order but it doesn’t have to be a big change. They can lead to cost leadership. Established companies have a cash flow from their current business, assets or goodwill to mortgage, a proven record with banks.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. However, there's no definitive solution or preferred way to measure them. How to make them work?

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 30, 2016

Future leaders need to emerge not from managing existing assets well but in managing in increased uncertainties, being more adaptive, agile and responsive to changing needs. HR can become a powerful connector, platform provider for building networks, relationships and being a key component to building the learning that innovation requires.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 30, 2016

Future leaders need to emerge not from managing existing assets well but in managing in increased uncertainties, being more adaptive, agile and responsive to changing needs. HR can become a powerful connector, platform provider for building networks, relationships and being a key component to building the learning that innovation requires.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. In good agile practices, the client and the team define together the deliverables of each sprint.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

A conventional definition of digital transformation describes it as “the novel use of digital technology to solve traditional problems. This definition is basically true, but it is not particularly insightful or instructive. Leadership Buy-In and Adapting Processes Top Down is Critical. Digital Transformation is Key.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Required is a “grease and glue” model of leadership. –based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 13, 2020

5) Encourages leadership teams to tackle challenging circumstances with practical innovation. Transforming into a learning organization is indeed a time-consuming process, but you will notice that the benefits you achieve will definitely outweigh the work that you have to put into it.

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etventure

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

During the last couple of years the MVP has become the holy grail of agile product development – but there are still a variety of different interpretations about what “MVP” really means. The Challenges of Waterfall vs. Agile: Many companies have a careful method of product development – that is deeply embedded in their culture.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

12:57) The principles of The Agile Manifesto and their similarity to ISO 56000 is discussed as a set of principles rather than as a traditional standard the ISO establishes . (14:31) The definition nicely illustrates the general nature of the standard. ISO 56008 – Innovation Operation Measurements – Guidance, 2022(TBC). (07:05)

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Brunner

JUNE 3, 2020

In fact, these definitions have been blown to shreds, at least for now. Whether you are a leadership brand, a challenger brand, or a niche brand doesn’t matter. Are you surrounded by people who are street-smart, agile and willing to take a risk? For every established mega-brand, there has been a startup.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In general, business building allows incumbents to blend startups' agility and rapid growth potential with their resources and established wisdom. “If In other words, balancing these two dimensions – the ‘now’ and the ‘new’ – is the trick for leadership to succeed at building businesses. If our startups grow, we grow”.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While it's true there is no "i" in "TEAM", there is definitely an "i" in INSIGHT, INTERDEPENDENCE, and COLLABORATION. WORKSHOP: Agile Leadership/Agile Teams. Which is precisely what Idea Champions' now-available-for-the-first-time-on-the-internet Teamwork Cards are all about. WORKSHOP: Team Innovation. Who We Are.

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Yet2

MARCH 18, 2021

They were good solutions, fit scope, and were definitely actionable. At the lowest level, individual innovation teams at Nomad Foods use an agile development method running two-week development sprints. Ready Resources. Last October, we submitted a couple tech leads to one of our clients. This lets teams stay nimble and focused.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 26, 2020

Design thinking workshops can help your organization gain empathy, definition, alignment, and ideas from your own colleagues who make up the future of your workplace – in whatever form that may take. Training for the Future of Work & FOW Workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

. “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances” – (a wikepedia definition). Christensen that began back in 1995.

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Moves the Needle

APRIL 8, 2021

At some point, the Innovation Industry co-opted the original Horizon model, confusing the definitions of the horizons. The likelihood of that happening is, of course, dependent on your definition of innovation. New: A company cannot be faster or more agile than its core internal processes. What Happened to the Horizon Model?

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