Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

For the enterprise world, the rallying cry is similar to the classic American Revolution meme, “Join or Die.” To effectively drive enterprise innovation requires effort at every level of the organization, and it requires alignment among many moving parts. Except in today’s age, the corporate chorus says, “Innovate, or Die!”

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Planview

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to McKinsey , this “tax” on development comprises about 40 percent of IT balance sheets, stemming from the intense pressure to enter the market and gather feedback swiftly. All of these features are characteristic of fostering an atmosphere of collaboration that extends beyond the realms of immediate teams.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Team building is hard. . 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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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Here are five classic reasons innovation efforts fail in the modern enterprise: 1. Bungle team composition. Most innovators are optimists. Even failure itself has become a virtue.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives. What Is Change Management in Leadership?

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Planview

APRIL 6, 2023

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. How Do You Appreciate the Value of Business Agility? I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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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 #3. Strategy #4.

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PlanBox Innovation

MAY 10, 2022

Building an innovation management system, on the other hand, helps drive the thinking for the right process to develop as well as the many other critical considerations that normally come into play, such as focusing on the right problems to solve, identifying the grand challenges the company should focus on, and building an innovation ecosystem.

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The Inovo Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“The strength of the team is in each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” A large, global company was reconstituting its corporate innovation team after a period of massive and intense reorganization involving all aspects of corporate governance and business unit operations.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

Now that these product evolutions are everywhere, from automobiles to sub-zero refrigerators, the idea of digital transformation has become a top strategic priority for many enterprises. They are not agile. Why So Many Enterprises Fail to Digitally Transform Obviously, the digitization of an entire company is no easy undertaking.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? As we recognize that the enterprise will need to move towards a design that is constantly evolving, adapting, adjusting and reacting.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

It is often really hard to let go, the environment was something you had become used to, you accepted and become resigned to its weaknesses and constantly exploited its possibilities or even possibly the other way round. Ignoring the power of choice within change is dangerous. Constructing a climate for any transformation is hard.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 16, 2016

Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. The entire business must transition to a growth driven organization.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

RPA scenarios range from something as simple as generating an automatic response to an email to deploy thousands of bots , each programmed to automate jobs in an integrated enterprise management system (ERP), for example. Many RPA problems stem from poor management of expectations. Set expectations. Involve IT early and often.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. Amplifying Agility via Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Due to the increasing centrality of mobile devices, mobile apps are playing an increasing role in digital transformation strategies for large-scale enterprises. Let’s dive in!

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Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

Although every organization faces unique challenges, we see the same excuses repeatedly why established enterprises can’t do “real” innovation. Sales says they just sell whatever the product team delivers. The product team says they struggle to keep up with a long list of features required by product management.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 30, 2017

This cycle should involve the following steps: implementation, connectivity development, ensuring a ‘first and foremost’ focus on innovation, ideation and brainstorming, and finally, implementing a formal innovation management system. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 10, 2016

Then that constant investment in people, networks and relationships, that need to come together and, finally the structures, systems and governance that are flexible enough to make what we work upon as responsive, agile, adaptive, exploitive and exploratory, to end up with great new ideas, things and finally, winning successful concepts.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

IDC predicts that by 2018 more than 50 percent of large enterprises – and more than 80 percent of firms with advanced digital transformation strategies – will create and/or partner with platforms. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Financial organizations of all shapes and sizes are being disrupted by small, agile, innovative and technology-oriented companies which offer convenient and efficient services. Therefore it is crucial for these organizations to select an innovation management solution that does not represent a “weak-link” in their chain of cyber-defense.

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Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 10, 2019

Suppose that the organisation has a history of not being able to come up with breakthrough innovations, cant suddenly develop them. Converting Strategy to behaviour: If the strategy development process results in a 10 slide powerpoint to explain the strategy, we can be sure that the execution of that strategy is going to be challenging.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies.

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Acuvate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

According to a report by IDG , 89 percent of enterprises plan or already have adopted a digital-first strategy by weaving data analytics, private cloud, and mobile technology into their operations. Create a team of experts in agile delivery methods to own and rule integration within your organization.

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Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 31, 2008

first creating wireframes, which are handed off to creative, who hand off comps to tech, and so forth), and you want to explore more contemporary methodologies, such as agile and iterative development. The way that look and feel is developed and applied will vary widely from team to team.

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CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Promotes Strategic Agility. The plan is further divided into annual goals.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you've got to focus on empowering your teams to rapidly experiment.” When data-driven experiments are run (like market surveys), they often take too long, cost too much or deliver little new insight to develop the idea. Encourage bold/crazy ideas 2.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The first article discussed the pros and cons of different UX team structures. For companies that depend on user experience for business success, a strong internal team is essential. In any large enterprise, user experience can still be a new concept. But how do you get there from here? They have deadlines and launch windows.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

This coming April, IFT and Qmarkets will be hosting an enterprise innovation leader breakfast, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of innovation challenges and collective intelligence ( see below for more details). Principle 2: Any experiment when the outcome will not change what you are doing, is also a BAD experiment.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Who were exploiting the convergence of trends catalysed by the expansion of the internet and by the fast pace of exponential technology development making gamification accessible to everyone. At the same time, this period has also created incredible opportunities for expanding our knowledge, developing new mindsets, behaviours, and skills!

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This coming April, IFT and Qmarkets will be hosting an enterprise innovation leader breakfast, which will explore a variety of topics around the themes of innovation challenges and collective intelligence ( see below for more details). Principle 2: Any experiment when the outcome will not change what you are doing, is also a BAD experiment.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities. Get the rest of the executive team on board for strategic innovation. As the CEO, innovation may be part of your plan, but that doesn’t automatically mean the rest of your team is on board. And it’s not just about generating ideas.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 22, 2019

False consensus bias contributes to making bad decisions when we design software. Have you ever heard anyone on your team say, “what if the customer wanted [some feature]?” The development, design, and product management team need to feel like the personas are real people. What are personas? Why use them?

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