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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. So, what is it exactly that makes an organization innovative and agile? Key Principles of an Agile and Innovative Organization .

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5 steps to have an agile HR in your company

mjvinnovation

In times of exponential change, the agile approach is dominating the market. Have you heard of agile HR? The term Agile is no longer used only in the area of ??Technology. Today, Agile Methods are transforming the way companies hire, develop and manage their employees.

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How to Embed Agile Thinking at Every Level of Your Company

CMOE

The leaders at each of these levels perform different duties, but no matter where you sit in the organization, agile thinking matters. The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies.

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6 Agile Transformation Challenges Facing Post-Pandemic Leaders

Planview

One thing has become clear for organizations in this pandemic era – change is hard, and if you don’t have a transformation plan, you’re more likely to fall victim to one of these common Agile transformation challenges. Read Next: 9 Agile Transformation Metrics for Executives to Watch.

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. Company transformations are promoted and sold with the promise to make the company more agile, whatever that may be.

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. Company transformations are promoted and sold with the promise to make the company more agile, whatever that may be.

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. Company transformations are promoted and sold with the promise to make the company more agile, whatever that may be.

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From end to end: why the union of Design Thinking and Agile has been so successful

mjvinnovation

Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. Agile: Make Tangible and build. Since you have a well-defined idea (through Design Thinking), Agile will clear a path towards your idea by removing obstacles that stand in your way. Agility is a mindset.

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4 Ways Agility Protects the Status Quo (And 5 Reasons Anticipation is Better)

Daniel Burrus

Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions. Does that make agility an extinct dinosaur? Why Agility Is No Longer Enough. Agility needs to be balanced with a new key strategy—becoming #Anticipatory. Countless organizations have long prized agility as the best way to deal with the speed of change and disruption. Being agile would not have helped.

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Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban and Design Sprint: how to combine agile practices and gain more efficiency

mjvinnovation

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. The practice is very common within agile logic. We suggest reading our ebook “Design Thinking and Agile” so that you can go deeper into this subject and understand how these methodologies work together!

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Agile Sprint: how it brings efficiency to your business

mjvinnovation

Agile practices transform business in multiple directions, providing powerful models of product and service creation, project management, and much more. In this article, you will understand what agile practices are, what benefits this approach offers to your company. You’ll also understand how Sprint’s approach, derived from Agile, can boost results. What are Agile Practices. More agility. Agile

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How agile practices can solve remote team management problems

mjvinnovation

In this article, you will reflect on the challenges of remote team management and how agile practices can help you make the transition efficiently. Agile’s best practices to manage your team remotely. Sprints are the key to managing an Agile team.

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The Book that Harvard Suggested New CEOs Read is Emerging as a Key Reference to All Innovation Teams

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Agility. Change. Disruption. Marketing conferences and business media are so dominated by calls for radical new approaches in the digital and data analytics age that there is a temptation to believe that all innovation strategies must also be new. But hang on. Marketing thought leader Ronald Brown is rapidly capturing the attention of leading executives, academics and marketers by reminding

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EFFECTING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE AND LEARNING

ImagineNation

Project management: that provides rigour and discipline, through taking a human-centred, and agile approach that allows people and teams to make the necessary shifts in assigning and delivering commercially astute, ambitious, radical, and challenging breakthrough and Moonshot projects.

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CONTROLLING THE CONTROLLABLES

ImagineNation

Both of these are causing disruptive and unpredictable workforce changes, the need for new working practices, and a different set of mindsets and behaviours founded in cultivating an independent will, mental toughness, and emotional agility.

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What goes around, comes around, in Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Let me provide a quick introduction along with some brief explanations : Innovation for me always needs common reference points. By not adopting a common set of innovation reference points you can remain often unproductive, consistently re-adapting, re-working and plugging gaps that could be better invested in managing the many aspects of complexity you always find in a better thought-through innovation management structure, one that focuses on advancing your activity.

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DEVELOPING A HUMAN-CENTRIC FUTURE-FIT FOCUS

ImagineNation

Referring to new research on the organizational practices of 30 top companies, they highlighted how businesses can best organize for the future – and it is all initiated by developing a human-centric, future-fit focus.

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

This is what I refer to as “legacy thinking.” As you probably know, legacy technology refers to old forms of technology that are simply no longer optimal. Like legacy technology, legacy thinking refers to thinking, strategies and other actions that are outdated and no longer serve you to the extent that they once had. One example is agility—the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions.

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

Paul Hobcraft

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? Often it is present in the existing, as commonly referred too as “weak signals”, these are often hidden amid the noise of delivering on today. We need to design our systems to be highly agile. There is huge value in applying the three horizon framework into your thinking.

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Change Your Thinking, Improve Your Results

Daniel Burrus

You may be dealing with what I refer to as “legacy thinking.” As you probably know, legacy technology refers to hardware and/or software that we have been using for many years and depend on, but that is not as cost efficient or productive as newer systems. Like legacy technology, legacy thinking refers to thinking, strategies and other actions that, in their own way, are outdated. Take agility.

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MANAGING BOTH THE FUTURE AND THE PRESENT

ImagineNation

Helping people create vital new reference and landing points for a future that they may not have previously imagined, and by; Supporting them in being comfortable with the discomfort this brings.

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Innovation Passion led me here

Paul Hobcraft

There is no one “magic” reference point, simply one book to refer to, or certainly one visual that solves our needs. Having an innovating passion. So many multiple strands constantly need to be pulled together to build a complete innovation picture.

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Oh, The Things you Can Thunk

The Human Factor

It is all part of what I refer to as the science of thinking. agility decision making destination focus Innovation Strategic Agility/Planning strategic plan Using Your Brain winning destination modeling goals Holly G. Green Pause-Think-Focus perception Science of Thinking strategic agility The Human Factor Using Your Brain to WinSeuss has always been one of my favorite authors, especially his book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think.

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The Trichotomy: Dual Corporate Innovation and Transformation

Innovation Excellence

It puts in a nutshell what he refers to as the "hardest challenge in business today". Build Capability Feature Of The Week Growth Innovation Strategy Adaptability Adaptive capacity agility Corporate Scaleup Disruptive capacity Disruptive Innovation Dual Corporate Innovation Dual Innovation Dual Transformation Innovation Capability Innovation Management Integrative Innovation organization design Organizational Ambidexterity Three Horizons

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Oh, The Things you Can Thunk

The Human Factor

It is all part of what I refer to as the science of thinking. agility decision making destination focus Innovation Strategic Agility/Planning strategic plan Using Your Brain winning destination modeling goals Holly G. Green Pause-Think-Focus perception Science of Thinking strategic agility The Human Factor Using Your Brain to WinSeuss has always been one of my favorite authors, especially his book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think.

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Anticipatory Minds don’t Ask about the New Normal, they Forge the Next Normal

Daniel Burrus

I refer to this as my Both/And Principle. From virtual museum tours to five-star curbside pickup of a steak and lobster dinner, some tremendously innovative ideas emerged out of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

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What to innovate now

Jeffrey Phillips

Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model. This is a great mode that I constantly refer back to with my clients, to convince them to think about innovation beyond product innovation.

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

mjvinnovation

In this case, it can be: Social analysis: briefly refers to the measurement of non-transactional data on various social media and websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Agile

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Reference Doblin’s Ten Types chart and get a sense if your innovation projects are over-balanced in a particular set of types. Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.” The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. We were at a social event.

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Linking sense of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

So here are my points of focus with a number of reference links that I have selected and written upon in the past. Dip in, take a look, and go further by viewing the key reference tabs provided on the right-hand side. Linking innovation needs constant evolving and recognizing.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

The article I reference is in Inc. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. It does.

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Three Playgrounds for Dual Innovation and Transformation

Integrative Innovation

It puts in a nutshell what he refers to as the “hardest challenge in business today”: Simultaneously strengthening today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Here is a chart, shown by Scott Anthony from Innosight during a worthwile talk on “Dual Transformation” in July this year.

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Empower Operational Employees to Innovate

Gregg Fraley

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Creative Problem Solving, aka “CPS” refers to the Osborn-Parnes model of Creative Problem Solving. The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. 85% of CEOs put Innovation as a Top Three priority. Consider a Brown Bag Innovation Training or Immersion in Innovation Concepts.

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10 Popular Innovation Exercises to Try

InnovationTraining.org

In the same wheelhouse as design thinking (and agile), a lean startup approach offers a way to quickly ideate, test, and create prototypes. Frameworks like design thinking, lean startups, and agile offer a whole “collection” of innovation activities or exercises.

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Crisis Manager or Opportunity Manager? You Decide.

Daniel Burrus

No matter how agile you might be in putting out fires, constantly reacting to problems and issues is not only exhausting, it can become an unending cycle. What do I mean when I refer to an opportunity manager? Leadership Strategy Transformation Agile Anticipatory Organization business opportunity Crisis Manager Dan Burrus Daniel Burrus Lean Opportunity ManagerWe all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves.

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Change Your Perspective to Win

The Human Factor

I often refer to this as teaching employees the business of the business < [link] > Change Perspective. agility Using Your Brain winning Your Brain. Green Pause-Think-Focus perspective Science of Thinking strategic agility The Human Factor Using Your Brain to WinAs a leader, your perspective on winning may be very different from the that of your employees. If someone offered you a trillion dollars for counting to a trillion by ones, would you accept the challenge?

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Digital Innovation Units: Recommendations, Trends and Conclusions

Integrative Innovation

The orchestration does not follow the picture of a symphony orchestra, but the concept of jazz improvisation: In the best case world class musician (= different digital units) create a fresh interpretation (= innovation) live on stage (= agile) with their audience (= customer-centered). This allows the best founding teams in the world to find what they need most: access to pilot and reference customers with a big name in the target industries.

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Getting back to the Future about Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

We have actively collaborated and designed tools and frameworks over the years that we believe had some of our insights “baked” into them to offer valuable reference points to help us all work through connecting innovation in hopefully better ways.

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

It moves from many “strands” of systems into one of building on one “single point of reference” that ecosystems achieve by being built and designed for a more cohesive set of innovation activities.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

We call rapidly growing startups that have found what is commonly referred to as “product/market fit” and a viable business model a ScaleUp, because they now find themselves facing an inflection point that signals an even more daunting stage of maturity.

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The Dwindling Shelf Life of Market Insights?—?And What To Do About It

New Markets Advisors

As a point of reference, it took a mere 19 days for Pokémon Go to reach 50 million users. The other key reason to maintain stable Jobs research is that it allows teams to be more agile. market-research agile innovation jobs-to-be-done customer-insightThe Dwindling Shelf Life of Market Insights?—?And And What To Do About It We often talk about how the world is changing faster than ever.

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Is Your Organization Changing Fast Enough to Win?

The Human Factor

When Welch made this pronouncement many years ago, he was referring mainly to individual organizations. Green Pause-Think-Focus Science of Thinking strategic agility The Human Factor Using Your Brain to WinOne of my favorite quotes from Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, is, “When the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Operating in unpredictable environments relies on an agile organization , following an adaptive, evolutionary and more bottom-up approach, resembling complex adaptive systems, e.g. in biology.