Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here does lie a true competitive component and so many organizations seek to apply someone else’s practice so they can end up as “same” practice. We are facing such an unprecedented change and technology is re-writing the rule book in everything we are going to do. Agility, adaptability & innovation. Theory Y management.

Learning 162

Learning System Agile Competition 162

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 9, 2018

Panayioutou says that Coke needs people who can spot trends, help Coke analyze what customers want and create more agility and speed. But she goes on to say they need good thinkers, people who are good collaborators and who have good learning agility. She needs people who can understand the new strategy and help implement it.

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Agile Innovation Disruption Competition 125

Daniel Burrus

MAY 11, 2017

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. Not at all!

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Agile Disruption Trends Strategy 70

Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Innovation must be rooted in improving competitive advantage, customer needs, employee expectations and now, sustainability. Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani Bova.

Innovation 270

Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 270

New Markets Advisors

MAY 29, 2019

For years, Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath has been telling us that the traditional strategy of finding and exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is becoming outdated. The world is evolving too quickly for competitive advantages to last for a meaningful amount of time. Or so the argument goes.

Agile 40

Agile Competition How To Roadmap 40

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. The intent of the e-book is to offer a practical, direct takeaway of design thinking, the present practices and where it is possibly heading. You might like the idea but will the boss?

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Design Thinking Design Creativity Training 238

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. It can give you a real competitive advantage by translating what you learnt in applying analogies to solutions that solve your customer problems. Turning “yes but”….into

Industry 215

Industry Trends LEAN Innovation 215

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Before Agile, MJV’s marketing team encountered many difficulties in dealing with its routine challenges. An Agile Coach for Agile Marketing. Agile methodologies have always been part of the MJV framework in its external projects. How did we solve this problem? MJV Marketing: A World of Challenges.

Agile 52

Agile Marketing Course Design Thinking 52

mjvinnovation

MARCH 5, 2020

In this article, you will see what exactly agile coach does, what benefits it can bring and how to take it to your company. What an Agile Coach does within an Agile team. Agile Coach helps train corporate teams in agile methodology and oversees team development to ensure effective results. Skills of an Agile Coach.

Agile 52

Agile eBook Software Developers Software Development 52

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

The question isn't even: should we become more agile or more nimble? The answer to that one is "yes" as well, and (shameless plug) I wrote a book about how to become more nimble, agile and innovative. How good is your competitive intelligence? The real question isn't: should we change?

Change 113

Change Agile Industry Marketing 113

Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups are more agile because fewer people decide. The mindset of competition and customer satisfaction in known areas is different from that of creating new business models. The company became the world’s leading bookseller, marketing, packaging and distributing more books in print than any organization ever before.

Strategy 142

Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 142

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Brought to prominence by Professor Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma , this important theory provides an explanation as to why large, established companies eventually get overtaken by smaller ones, and it introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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Company Innovation Brainstorming Underperforming Technical Team 254

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. I see companies recognizing that speed is the differentiating competitive advantage in business.

Competition 52

Competition Technical Review Software Review Agile 52

ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Transitioning from competition to co-petition within ecosystems, fostering genuine collaboration across boundaries to co-create solutions on a global scale. Moving away from competition towards co-petition in ecosystems, embracing collaboration across boundaries to co-create global solutions.

Innovation 52

Innovation Entrepreneurship Exercises Trends 52

CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

Markets, rivals, and the business environment all change too fast, are too complex, and are too competitive on a global scale for you not to be looking forward and leading your part of the business in a proactive way. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter? Identifies new business processes that are key to future success. Driving Change.

Leadership 128

Leadership Strategy Strategy Agile 128

Leapfrogging

JANUARY 27, 2020

Amazon’s management system is designed for speed, agility, and scale. The principles that Amazon abides by and how you can adapt them for your business is the focus of a new book, The Amazon Management System by Ram Charan and his co-author, Julia Yang. They become rigid, slow, and risk-adverse.

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Agile Data System Culture 100

Matthew May

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Luckily, a new book by Daniel Markovitz entitled Building the Fit Organization lends that helping hand. In it, he proposes six core principles that embody the discipline needed to bring your business to a level of fitness that will enable it to achieve peak performance, which he defines as strength, speed, and agility.

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LEAN Agile Course Exercises 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups. Here’s a Q&A with Matt that highlights the key points in the book.

Strategy 130

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Lastly, they have such limited ability to adapt to change and drag down performance when you are at the point of time when you need to improve performance as your competitive landscape seems more threatened than ever. Then the last in a long list of legacy problems we never achieve the potential of organizational agility and efficiency.

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System Design Innovation Data 191

mjvinnovation

APRIL 9, 2020

In this article, you will reflect on the challenges of remote team management and how agile practices can help you make the transition efficiently. There are many agile methodologies incorporated in the management of even the most varied remote teams. Sprints are the key to managing an Agile team. Follow this! Regular check-ins.

Agile 52

Agile Management Meeting Software Review 52

PlanBox Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

As yet, we can only surmise how quickly customers will book air travel again or how soon they will return to places like shopping malls. A proven way to do this is through the agile process. Deployed as part of a company-wide commitment to innovation, an agile approach can be transformative. Be Bold and Experiment.

Agile 52

Agile Company Ideation Innovation Processes 52

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. The idea was conceived by Eric Ries and brought to life in his book The Lean Startup back in 2011. Competition is now global. While agile focuses on build velocity, lean focuses on customer traction velocity.”

LEAN 105

LEAN Examples Agile Innovation 105

Leapfrogging

APRIL 25, 2022

The first business plan focused on creating a platform for a whole series of “Easy” online booking portals, like EasyCuts for hairstylist appointments and EasyPutts for golf reservations. That’s what creates competitive advantage. Balance Vision with Reality. The original idea behind “EasyEats” (aka OpenTable) was much bigger.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Agile System 130

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

We'll know we've reached peak innovation insanity when someone writes the "Chicken Soup" for innovators souls book. This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play.

LEAN 100

LEAN Innovation Agile Software 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

It was pervasive; it was flung about in workshops and articles, books and business meetings, from Cape Town to Cairo, Seoul to Singapore, in different industries, in different sizes of firms. Take a ‘hot’ business word of today: transformation. For years, I stopped using the word ‘transformation.’ Transformation: 1.

Meeting 100

Meeting Innovation Big Data Competition 100

mjvinnovation

MAY 16, 2019

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. What are Agile Practices. Check it out! How Sprint Works.

Agile 40

Agile Software Review Software Developers Software Development 40

Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

No one had the right recipe, and when that happens, you can try every strategy in the book, but it wont save you,” he explains. However, this integration must be carefully managed to avoid stifling the ventures agility. “Ultimately, leadership and governance failed.

Marketing 52

Marketing Technical Review How To Agile 52

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

A key need of this digital transformation is going to be asking the question of how can we build in ‘greater agility’ and what is presently stopping us from achieving this. Finally, one book written by David L. It needs very hands-on engagement throughout the whole process.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Roadmap Agile Engagement 100

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Learning to become anticipatory versus being agile and reactionary will prove to be far more effective in helping you think exponentially, skip your biggest problems with ease, and ultimately envision and bring to life amazing new ideas with the confidence that certainty provides.

Trends 97

Trends Disruption Agile Design 97

mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keep reading to see how successful executives are achieving results in their everyday business through incorporating agile methodologies like SCRUM! The agile mindset. Before we get into the agile mindset, we need to remember that it is linked to Agile Philosophy. continuous delivery of quick results. High quality.

Agile 40

Agile Project How To Software Review 40

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One that is characterized by sudden, even violent success or an event, some moments of brilliant dominance, followed by a dramatic change in conditions as others have spotted the same opportunity and you hit a rapid decline, the race to the bottom of competition constantly negating one another. The VUCA world is a brutal place to operate in.

Change 100

Change Agile Design Competition 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Do you remember the brilliant book of Peter Senge :The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization” This book needs dusting down, searching out, purchasing as essential reading, as it gives us some more clues on System thinking as many of our problems are reoccurring ones.

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System Innovation Design Resources 147

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

method could work for your team, click here to book a free strategy video call , or if you prefer email click here to contact him directly. This is why Agile is becoming so popular for teams which need to rapidly iterate, such as in software-development or design teams. method) about how the L.I.V.E. ———-.

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Project LEAN Management Innovation 264

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 8, 2022

I have always been a fan of the book “ The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture ” by Frans Johansson. I always find it interesting when different though-strands seem to collide. You can put that down to serendipity, fate, luck or just being in the right spot at that time.

Innovation 130

Innovation Artificial Inteligence Tools Innovation Management 130

Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Any time you can make the competition seem like they are offering yesterday’s features and functions, and you are offering tomorrow’s, you can accelerate growth well into the future. . The majority have embraced the idea of agility as the best way to turn rapid change into an advantage. Order Daniel Burrus’ book today!

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Agile Trends Disruption Internet of things 69

Acuvate

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Lets explore how this groundbreaking technology is reshaping manufacturing and why businesses must adopt it to stay competitive. From self-healing machines to cognitive supply chains, these systems enable factories to operate with unprecedented efficiency, agility, and environmental responsibility.

System 40

System Disruption Artificial Inteligence Data 40

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 29, 2015

Asking these questions offsets that attitude of simply accepting the established approach from the very beginning.Speed, scale and agility are required and many of our existing innovation practices do not adapt to these increasing demands. Each business has a need, to grow, to add value, to beat or at least equal competition, or should do.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Software Review 100