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Scaling Agile Through Cascading Missions

Moves the Needle

I had a conversation recently with a few industry professionals who were expressing concerns about the idea of scaling agile. Their objection was that not everybody can be agile nor needs to be. Market penetration. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Developing an Agile Strategy. Strong Relationships Enable Agility.

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We Can’t Stop Disruption

Moves the Needle

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. These departments market, sell, distribute, and support the product. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”.

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How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade

New Markets Advisors

And new entrants have been finding scrappy ways to ensure that they have sufficient funds, information, and talent to compete with incumbents. Facebook continues to hold nearly 20% of the digital ad market while Facebook-owned Instagram (5%), Twitter (1%), and Snapchat (1%) lag behind. It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. While we often prioritize the dynamic elements of agility?—?the

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Caught in the Headlights of Disruptive Innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. So I had some time on my hands so I decided to go back over the whole area of disruption to get a broader understanding and how this is driving so much within our innovation activity at present. Moritz reviewing disruptive innovation.

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Six Insights for Innovating Amid Disruption

Yet2

In many ways 2020 defines the idea of disruption: the entire world went into lockdown, markets fluctuate, and every university and R&D department raced to innovate. These funds must be ready and available when the disruption hits. Want more information?

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Future-Proofing Financial Market Innovation – Fighting Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? When someone comes out of left field with an idea that turns your market sideways, how are you going to get your whole organization to adapt on a dime? HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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9 Patterns of Disruption: The new cooking recipe for business disruption

Idea to Value

A light bulb went on for me as I was reading a series of reports from Deloitte University Press on disruption. I felt this nine patterns of disruption has the same huge potential to frame and dialogue around the potential within disruption. A new framing of connecting disruptive innovation. They have defined the nine patterns of disruption as shown in the graphic below. The nine patterns of disruption (according to Deloitte). Expand market reach.

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What This Video Of A Drone Fishing For Tuna Can Teach You About Disruption

Faisal Hoque

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? When someone comes out of left field with an idea that turns your market sideways, how are you going to get your whole organization to adapt on a dime? HOW TO PRACTICE AGILITY.

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Strategic Agility – 3 keys to getting clear in ambiguity

The Human Factor

In today’s hyper-paced and chaotic world, few things are more important to success than the ability to respond quickly to sudden changes in external forces, market conditions, or customer needs. I call this strategic agility. – agility goals Holly G.

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Why Financial Organizations Must Fight Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Strategic Agility –The Next Big Thing is Here

The Human Factor

In today’s hyper-paced world, few things are more important to business success than the ability to respond quickly to sudden changes in market conditions or customer needs. Whether the disruption comes from the introduction of a new technology, a new competitor that nobody saw coming, or drastic changes in economic policy and trade agreements, the companies that go to the head of the class are usually those that respond the quickest. I call this strategic agility.

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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

According to Andy Rowsell-Jones, VP at Gartner, “The CIO’s role must grow and develop as digital business spreads, and disruptive technologies, including intelligent machines and advanced analytics, reach the masses. When the Internet arrived 20 years ago, it necessitated roles such as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Product innovations do not stay relevant for long enough to sustain the traditional product-to-market cycle of 12-36 months.

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Building the Innovation Business Case

Paul Hobcraft

Much of the information is imperfect, the returns are often fuzzy and the doubters ready to block and deter new ideas from entering the commercialization process.

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Disruptive innovation: a risk worth taking?

Idea Drop

Type the word ‘disruptive’ into Google and suggested synonyms include ‘troublemaking’, ‘unruly’, ‘riotous’, ‘undisciplined’ and ‘turbulent’. Disruptive innovation is a divisive topic. Disruptive innovation gets a lot of bad press. Disruption is not destruction Disruption does not have to take an ‘all guns blazing’ approach and therefore does not have to mean destruction. The catch is that disruptive innovation only works when it is done well.

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Why Financial Organizations Must Fight Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services.

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Leading In A World of Disruption

Daniel Burrus

In recent years, leaders have added agility — being able to change quickly based on external circumstances — as an organizational competency. But digital disruption from the outside-in has been coming at an ever-increasing speed, and it’s only getting faster. The pace of disruption forces agility, causing leaders to react, crisis manage, and put out fires on a daily basis. For many leaders, disruption is a familiar foe.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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5 Steps To Structure A SaaS Marketing Team In 2021

The Human Factor

This team-building drill becomes harder when you are recruiting your SaaS marketing team. This will ensure you have a comprehensive team that is equipped to support every facet of the marketing needs of your SaaS company. . 5 steps to structure a high-performance SaaS marketing team.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

At some point, digital disruption comes for every organization. While some companies might be flexible and lucky enough to ride a wave of disruption and survive , if you are able to predict and prepare for it accordingly you might be able to use it to thrive. Unless well planned and executed, digital disruption – the inevitable deluge of new tools and processes that is part and parcel of refining digital business processes – can be akin to managing a natural disaster.

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QUANTUM PHYSICS, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS

ImagineNation

If they measure something about the photon in the lab such as how fast it moves then immediately one knows the same information about the other photon. Trishna has a BSc (in Life Sciences) and MBA (in Marketing) by qualification but an artist by choice.

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

Companies across multiple sectors have launched collaborative efforts to gather disruptive new ideas, harness new technologies, and achieve greater sustainability. The conservative micro-adjustments to market changes and extensive research measures employed by large corporations has, in turn, meant that specialized startups are being increasingly sought after for their ‘predictive’ qualities. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration.

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The Rise of Product Management – Part II

Moves the Needle

To succeed, companies must at some level be digital ready: Development team is agile, with an eye toward making the whole company agile. The PMs will be a conduit for expanding agile beyond Engineering. Evidence informs decisions – leaders should yield to data and insights.

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INNOVATION TEAMS DONT INNOVATE!

ImagineNation

Delivering these, as smart and multi-disciplinary teams in ways that are timely, agile, and disciplined that potentially support and bring significant value to customers, the market, and to the organisation.

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HOW ENTREPRENEURS CAN UTILISE SOFTWARE

ImagineNation

Managing Disruption. No business is immune from disruption. Whether this is changes in a commercial marketplace, a focus on new and emerging technology, or large-scale societal upheaval caused by completely unforeseen circumstances, disruption is inevitable.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. I had never heard of Agile. Blog post Disruption Proof

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

An AI could be “sitting” on your board of directors, at the right-hand of your CEO, informing and guiding major decisions. An AI could be assisting virtually everyone throughout your business – operations, RD&E, sales, customer relationship, marketing, manufacturing, supply chains and innovation. The ‘point-of-the-spear’ for many companies, especially those in B2C businesses, is the digitalization of marketing and customer relationships.

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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

The third fused electronics and information technology to automate production and allow us to enter a digital age. It is how we connect, learn and share information will lead to fresh insights and new discoveries. So much of our known world will become disrupted, it will challenge society, it will bring about new behavior. Being fully connected-up will teach us to be adaptive, agile and alert.

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Upskilling to drive growth in the new economy

ImagineNation

On the other hand, emerging professions also reflect the continuing importance of human interactions in the new economy, giving rise to greater demand for care economy jobs; roles in marketing, sales, and content production; as well as roles at the forefront of people and culture”. .

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Simplifying strategic alignment – building resilient and sustainable organisations

ImagineNation

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. I since evolved Compass Learning, more than six years ago, into ImagineNation where our focus is on enabling people and organisation to be, think and act differently to adapt and grow through disruption.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

Be the warning point of change- be that in scope, markets, delays or changes. The central place that alerts and informs a focal point and required passing through point for everything around innovation.

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Re-think Your Next Re-org

Moves the Needle

Companies not hitting their targets or attempting to achieve some type of transformation, such as cultural, digital, or agile, are all potential reasons for reorganizing portions of the company. And one that results in speed, agility, and custom focus. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

Still, its need is to be far more fluid, adaptive and agile in what it processes and manages, especially in today’s challenging world, adapting to today’s challenges and working towards the future. We need both informal mechanisms and formal ones.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

In the 21 st century it’s harder for large corporations to create disruptive breakthroughs. Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Over the last decade, Intel missed two important disruptive trends. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups.

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Explore in the Core

Moves the Needle

Understanding Market Needs. There is no blueprint yet for building, marketing, selling and delivering new value for customers. The first step is (or ought to be) understanding the market needs. All these events ripple across the business landscape, disrupting the markets.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

There is a time where each business has to become highly adaptive, agile, open and mutually dependent on others to deliver in this ‘connected’ world to exploit these conditions and explore the opportunities that will emerge. As we learn the value and power of these tools we become more fluid, more flexible and agile but equally more influenced. The Business Model seems to have a reduced shelf life, we are witnessing more disruption and transformation of existing formats.

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Applying the Three Horizon Thinking to a Fresh Perspective of Innovation Design

Paul Hobcraft

The 3H informs the decisions to be taken, by recognizing their importance to the future and ‘frame’ resource allocation, identify current capability gaps to resolve. I would argue this fits within a constellation of partners all working towards delivering innovation that is highly valuable, radical, disruptive and distinctive. We need to innovate, to evolve, to sustain ourselves and maintain our market positions in a rapidly evolving world.

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Becoming a RAD Organization

Moves the Needle

The goal of the book Disruption Proof is to help leaders and founders of companies to create what I call RAD companies, which stands for being resilient, aware, and dynamic. There was very little market risk. Blog post Disruption Proof

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Lead the Possible, Not the Probable

The Human Factor

We look at what has made us successful so far, and attempt to make a few tweaks by asking business-as-usual questions that don’t address changing market realities. Given our new market realities, what would we do differently if we started the business over from scratch? source.

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Social Networks and Big Data: the best strategy for getting to know your customers

mjvinnovation

However, many companies still do not know what to do with this information – or even measure it correctly. This whirlwind of information needs to be adequately captured, organized, processed and analyzed. Information used for social media analysis can be. Agile

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Are You Preparing to Win in 2021 or Just Continuing to Work Hard?

The Human Factor

Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. Market activity. Inform.

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GE and its Global Innovation Barometer 2016

Paul Hobcraft

This year the barometer decided to explore the perceptions of the (informed) public for their thoughts on innovation’s growing impact and in particular, the future of work and they interviewed 1,346 to gain some useful insights and pointers that separate business and the citizen in their understandings. The Emerging markets are more fearless in embracing innovation. The energy sector is ripe for disruption (again GE specific).

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