Idea Drop

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In years past, many businesses have succeeded with an agile, reactive approach to business where they respond to climate, competition, and social circumstances in an “after the fact” way. This focus was predominantly on responding to disruptions as they came in, putting out fires to solve issues. How do you do this, though?

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Startup Innovation in Corporate Growth In today’s rapidly changing business environment, startup innovation is often at the forefront of technological advancement and market disruption. Team Strength : The leadership and team should possess the necessary skills, experience, and drive to grow the business.

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Collaboration Innovation Agile Technical Review 147

Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 22, 2020

Being anticipatory is a multifaceted offense in a world of rapid digital disruption. In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major disruptions within your industry that you yourself can introduce, such as Airbnb did to the hotel and timeshare industry or Uber did to the taxi and rideshare industry.

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Disruption Trends Leadership Technology 64

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Within our successful management of ecosystems, those agile and highly responsive will survive and have higher chances of thriving in the face of uncertainty. What do we need to build differently than we have today in innovation systems, and how and where do ecosystems come into play in design and thinking? Think dynamically.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 19, 2023

I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s innovation purpose.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Because change is inevitable in business, leaders must be equipped with the right competencies, specifically change-management leadership skills. What Is Change Management in Leadership? Change management is a leadership competency that involves being able to effectively lead, manage, and achieve change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to innovation leadership, keynote speakers can: Show how leaders can set a precedent for innovation within their teams. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 9, 2020

Similarly, today, where we are riding the wave of disruptive change; COVID-19, and range of chaotic global events, we have the chance to be mindfully present to sense and see the best learning opportunities and creative possibilities that the disruptive waves offer us, as they arise. The waves of disruptive change are the masters.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 30, 2023

What will happen with certain businesses or industries if the economy shifts, if technology disrupts, or if a new product or service falls flat? There is no doubt that uncertainty breeds fear, anxiety, and even a type of mental agility that treads water until you feel all is clear. Yes, we do live in constant uncertainty.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If we take the three ‘classic’ strategic thrusts of product leadership, operational excellence, or customer intimacy, then we need to make clear the potentially different emphasis points within any suggested innovation approach that we should take. The need for a real alignment of strategy and innovation.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. Lego: An Exponential Thinker in Agility and Anticipation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. A mission-driven, agile culture that prioritized relationships was also a common feature of prepared schools. Factor 3: Strong and flexible systems.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 21, 2018

In some cases, it’s about identifying opportunities for major digital disruption that you yourself can introduce (think Uber, Kickstarter and other innovations that set entire industries on their ear.). But being anticipatory also means being aware of outside disruptions that may impact you—and how to prepare accordingly.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 13, 2024

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. From generative AI to digital currency, these digital disruptions are definitely leaving their impact. The word “disruption” is a key stumbling point for many.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It can reveal what it takes for an innovation system to be persistent. A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 11, 2023

Much of what cost savings has to do with these days is found in processing power, bandwidth, and storage — the Three Digital Accelerators that I have identified as the cause for accelerated digital disruption since the eighties. Being a Positive Disruptor Can Be Costly, But Being Disrupted Is Worse. Accessible Software-as-a-Service.

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Daniel Burrus

MARCH 27, 2019

They have learned from a large list of high-profile Fortune 100 companies that were great at both agility and execution but experienced dramatic downturns. Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough. They know there is no longer a middle ground.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors and teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. Magazine Great Leadership Speaker. Twitter: johnsonwhitney. Twitter: letsgrowleaders.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. Re-thinking in a disconnected and disruptive age. Introducing System 3 thinking. Critical art of re-thinking. Thinking, fast and slow.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to the Hierarchy: The Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs is a construct of collaborative ecosystems, navigating complexity with agility, openness, and shared vision. Interconnected solutions and systems contribute to overall growth and competitiveness. We are navigating complexity in a rapidly changing environment.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 12, 2022

Let’s think about these two concepts in relation to my Anticipatory mindset versus an agile one. Agile mindsets are those of protecting and defending the status quo, often coupled with a tremendous effort to put out fires as they ignite. In a sense, they are preventative in nature.

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ImagineNation

MAY 9, 2019

With a national election for a new Australian government about to take place in less than a weeks’ time, it raises key questions around the impact of collaborative, autocratic or competitive leadership styles. Many voters, like myself, to question as to what leadership style might be best for our country’s future.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

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. Unconventional stretch collaboration requires connection, cognitive dissonance, and conflict.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Whether you consciously or unconsciously copy something from who you perceive as being your competition in business, this occurs because a company has disrupted you. This then causes an agile reaction in you as a business leader, scrambling to lead from behind and keep up with the rate of change while looking at the disruptor as a threat.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Importance of Team Collaboration in Today’s Business Landscape The business world today is characterized by constant technological disruptions, the rise of virtual workplaces, and the globalization of talent. It’s essential to establish a system where team members can provide feedback without fear of repercussions.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 15, 2020

Complacency is even more detrimental in the environment we live in today, dominated by exponential digital disruption. Your hard work and resulting success can create a level of comfort that blinds you to the Hard Trends predicting incoming disruptions. Agility Without Anticipation. Why Is Complacency Dangerous?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

How many times do you see organization set the deliverables in often ‘woolly’ undefined or impossible ways to truly measure, unable to meet the very system they impose of capturing and measuring what this means, so it is dumb-sized. Organization layers grind against each other, like tectonic plates that force further disruption and upheaval.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 13, 2021

With such an all-encompassing sector, it’s no surprise that disruptions run rampant, though even during COVID-19, many manufacturing businesses were deemed essential, keeping their doors open and employees on-site. Agility Alone Is Antiquated. Learn to Anticipate Instead of Avoid. and the aforementioned augmented reality (A.R.).

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Strategy #4.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

In 2001, the Agile movement suggested a new way of approaching that work more efficiently. Other functional areas of the business started to also apply that thinking to how they can deliver with agility. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto , we are living in a drastically different world.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Strategic leadership is prevalent and nurturing, and valued- what are ours? Impact of innovation expected through strategic leadership. Investment x activity x focus x disruption = return on innovation expectations. Encouraging co-production of concepts (ideas, components, systems, R& D).

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The Human Factor

APRIL 20, 2017

“Disruptive innovation” seems to be one of the more popular buzzwords in today’s business lexicon. Fast-forward to today, and several years have passed since Apple has come up with a truly disruptive product. It’s hard enough to disrupt an industry once, much less on an ongoing basis. Many companies pursue it.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week, we take a look at Innovation Leadership - how has the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) evolved into the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), and how important is leadership in the age of crowdsourcing anyway? The Evolution from Management to Leadership. The Importance of Agile Leadership.

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