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

Planview

Read Next: Agile Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned (so far) on our Agile Journey. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Many executive leaders don’t need to learn all the theory behind Agile. Identify and Train Key Business Owners. Focus on selling Agile to executives by showing them how they can succeed with the approach.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Ask, “What can we learn?” Be willing to collaborate with other units and promote your team members’ ideas to others in the organization. Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Communicate and celebrate successes.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision?

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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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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

IdeaScale

Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation. A leader might have learned from the VC role to let go of struggling projects, where customers don’t respond as expected or where the market does not respond positively, in order to move the resources to fund innovation winners.

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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.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. Some of the principles in the book include a plan for systematic learning, listening to customers, testing to learn, de-risking your business model, and canvassing your plan.

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