Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s interesting to reflect that in 1997, the Agile Manifesto had not yet been published. Also, while human-centered design certainly existed, the practices of “design thinking” reaching tech companies to any real degree was still a decade away. I had never heard of Agile. We were Waterfall. It’s merely released.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Team Member Task Role John Doe Market Analysis Lead Analyst Jane Smith Product Design Head Designer Alex Johnson Quality Assurance QA Coordinator By ensuring that each team member knows their role, teams can operate more efficiently and with greater cohesion. Share both successes and challenges openly to learn from each experience.

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ITONICS

JULY 24, 2019

The Innovation Campus is aimed at managers, professionals, and innovation drivers across all industries and combines project-based learning modules with expert lectures from practice. In addition to design thinking, agile organization and leadership, methods and tools of trend and future research are also taught.

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We tuned in to recent webinars by Sopheon’s Mike Bauer and Paul Heller to get answers to that billion-dollar question. In this first article summarizing their webinar series, we’ll explore what InnovationOps is, the jobs to be done within innovation management, as well as critical enablers for success.

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Planview

AUGUST 18, 2023

Strategic portfolio management is designed to drive today’s complex, cross-functional initiatives. SPM makes it easier to identify and swiftly address dependencies, risks, and constraints Respond to disruptions more quickly and effectively: Far from a reactive endeavor, SPM boosts the company’s agility.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

Inquiring as to how might we ensure that we capture the best of what we’ve learned and keep the digital momentum going through developing a future-fit focus within the post-COVID-19 world? Seeing the world with fresh eyes – unlearning, re-learning, creativity and innovation. What is a future-ready organisation?

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

In last month’s blog, Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture – as a manifestation of learning & exploration we explored what it means to take a reflective stance, to use the experience of failure to support ourselves and others we interact with, as a pivot point and a manifestation for learning and exploration. Playfulness at work.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Some use Agile methodology, some use design thinking, but whatever method they’re using, we see that there are a few distinct activities associated with innovation and that’s how we created our IdeaScale stages. We did a whole webinar on this subject alone. What are the stages of innovation? Prototyping.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 1, 2021

Simultaneously, they need to ensure that they capture the best of what we’ve all learned to keep the digital momentum going and initiate the shift to quantum, by exploring, identifying, and unleashing the possibilities of a post-COVID-19 world. Both Human and Customer-Centric. Being human-centred.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In this origin story, the beakers would be labeled “agile” and “user experience (UX)” because the user champion borrows some of the best ideas from both disciplines. From agile, it takes the idea of the product owner (or in this case, product champion). But what if the users played a bigger role in UX design?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Also, by agreeing to, the most effective communication, decision making, and problem-solving processes, all of which were designed to cultivate trusted relationships.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

From Claude Montana to Thierry Mugler, from Giorgio Armani to Franco Moschino, from Jean Charles de Castelbajac to Christian Lacroix, there were many designers who shaped the aesthetics of the era with their creations and shows” – whose creativity, still impact us across the arts and other key industries today. A unique moment in time.

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ImagineNation

JULY 7, 2019

Power of learning through networking. It’s also one of the most useful, easy and accessible ways of learning. This meaning becomes learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions. Because, it’s the way we reflect, think, relate, learn and organise that either moves us towards this frequency or away from it. “To

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 8, 2019

Adapting agile principles, Amazon launched the Beta version of Amazon Custom in a short time frame, allowing existing customers to provide feedback directly. Check out this fascinating webinar to learn how PMI has managed this‘self-disrupting’ transformation initiative. Nestle: Powering Agile Ideation With Startups.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Its uniqueness lies in designing a distinct ‘Playing Field’ between the explorative (radical or disruptive) innovation domain, managed by corporate units and the exploitative (mostly incremental) innovation domain, managed by BUs. miss to offer a comprehensive set of dimensions for an adequate design of the interface.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. User-centric design principles, however, do not replace the fact-finding mission we all need to take as UX designers; they merely serve as a starting point for making design decisions.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Outlining an inclusive vision, mission & strategy that support speed, agility, learning, collaboration, teaming & networking – as the key levers for effecting organizational productivity & performance improvements. Encouraging boldness over caution – taking risks, failing fast & learning.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 4, 2018

At ImagineNation we know that organizations who invest in becoming agile to speedily adapt to changing market demands, by embracing a strategic, systemic & human centred approach, achieve mastery over the interface between people & digitization in the Digital Age.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2019

Adapting agile principles, Amazon launched the Beta version of Amazon Custom in a short time frame, allowing existing customers to provide feedback directly. Check out this fascinating webinar to learn how PMI has managed this‘self-disrupting’ transformation initiative. Nestle: Powering Agile Ideation With Startups.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Operating from intuition, being willing to experiment and learn from their failures, they often found themselves at odds with their boards, investors, and people. What are the key learnings towards creating high-performing and faster-moving teams? By creating an environment that liberates and amplifies that energy.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

My ongoing entrepreneurial learning journey. I outlined some of my many mis adventurous occurring in the first ten years in the management consulting & learning & development space. I also shared details describing my first three learning’s as a serial female entrepreneur.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

What if there is a way to create coherence, align people’s hearts & minds as well as build an environment that generates learning & results in organizational re-organisation & transformation? Join the next free monthly webinar in our Making Innovation a Habit Series – “Leading a Culture of Innovation.”

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. Want to learn even more about this unique finance process improvement project? There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

For the past decades, companies have been defining their strategy following a traditional approach: On the one hand, they analyzed trends, selected the most relevant ones, and designed their strategy based on a “clear view of the future”. This is what we call strategic agility. Join webinar. Download brochure.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Left, right, and center, traditional organizations are replacing Waterfall project management with Agile planning. In a recent Webinar , Planview’s Marcus Klein, Group VP of Product Management, and Naomi Lurie, VP Product Marketing, talked about how PMOs are evolving.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

This means that I have been able to observe, engage with and participate, from both Israel and Australia, in the evolution of Presencing and Theory U as powerful resources and vehicles for effecting profound transformational change and learning. Intentional change and learning.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2024

Read on to learn how customer-centric subscription services can help bridge your strategy and implementation gap and how you can avoid common pitfalls. Design the Program with Customer Needs in Mind First things first, there are real pain points when shifting to a PS subscription model. Use this to lead your organization to success.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2020

It also increases their emotional agility, confidence, and competence in responding to Covid-19 and future challenges. Glued together via a team charter (ground rules for communications, decision making, and problem-solving) in much the same way that the individuals on a single team are able to be effective, agile, and collaborative.

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Planview

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In a recent webinar with Planview, Forrester covered some best practices for effective product portfolio management —with a customer-centric approach. Forrester states that four fundamental principles should influence the design and management of any product portfolio. It’s an “all hands on deck” scenario. Orientation.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 30, 2021

The market has demanded agility, innovation, and productivity. If you still don’t know how to set up squads, check out 4 steps now to ensure a productive, efficient, and agile team! The origin of squads comes from the evolution of agile methodologies, more specifically, the Scrum method. What is the Squad Methodology?

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Higher education is poised to help produce the next generation of user experience designers, but we can’t do it alone. Before discussing ways that higher ed can help produce UX designers, let me discuss obstacles that we academics face, obstacles that make it difficult to nimbly respond to industry realities.

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Inceodia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Make 2020 your year to innovate Learn more in this free webinar. There are two reasons for this: 1) a simple design that elegantly solves a problem for your customer will be the preferred solution, every time; 2) clear evidence of customer validation of your idea will be hard for your leadership team to ignore. Sign-Up Now.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Innovation teams transform creative discoveries and ideas into new platforms and business models in timely, agile, and disciplined ways that bring significant value to the market and organisation. The time it takes to design or customise, and implement them. Education and learning interventions. Transform creative discoveries.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

However, project managers will need to learn new skills related to this rapid transformative change and digital collaboration and evolve to become, according to Nieto-Rodriguez, strategy implementation specialists, according to us at Be-novative Design Thinking facilitators and growth managers.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 21, 2019

Apple’s vision, for example, is to keep delivering exceptional design, whereas Amazon is focused on customer experience. Tim Kastelle – innovation author, speaker and consultant says you should: “T reat new initiatives as a series of experiments, which are designed to gather knowledge about your market.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It would have been very easy, & comfortable continuing enjoying the benefits of my regular glamorous global international trips to the fashion capitals of the world, my high designer wardrobe, my designer boyfriend & architect designed inner city home. Clarify, enact & embody your passionate purpose.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Innovation and vitality (agility) to create differential growth against a backdrop of declining aggregate growth. It was hosted by SOL (Society for Organizational Learning) and presented by Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge and other key people involved in the development and evolution of Theory U and Presence.

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