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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

The only problem may be that you’re getting little engagement from senior management, and they hold the keys to driving positive and enduring change in the organization. Consider these eight tips to get senior leaders behind your Agile transformation and help them fully engage. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook.

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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. The underlying design and technical expertise that makes these products distinctly Apple remained constant.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Innovation cannot be fully delegated to others—it will only be considered an important effort in a team or company when the leader is actively engaged. Be willing to collaborate with other units and promote your team members’ ideas to others in the organization. How a leader spends his or her time is always noticed by others.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. Bring the “voice of the customer” into the decision making and idea generation.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. Be a role model, and act in ways that promote a safe, trusting, and collaborative environment. It is often said, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.” And the costs are real.

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Future Trends 2021: Purpose & Co-creation

Be-novative

and the answer can serve as the beacon for all organizational decision-making in 2021 paired with collaboration in an online world. Purpose answers an all-important question, “ Why does a company exist? ”?—?and The office space is no longer the limit for 12–20 people that can fit into a workshop room.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

hackerearth

Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation.