Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation, yet already we’ve seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working systems, more targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and more acceptance of mobile and web apps as productivity tools.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideation From closed to open: The way ideas are generated is changing.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Was agility the driving force behind Uber’s dominance in ridesharing?

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 9, 2017

Chances are, you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions. In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Put them in context with the concept of agility. Agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition. Not at all.

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Braden Kelley

APRIL 23, 2015

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Change Management Professionals’ (ACMP®) annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, titled appropriately Change Management 2015. The event represented a convening of nearly 1,000 change management professionals from around the globe, … Continue reading →

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Planview

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But in case you can’t wait until next year’s event, we’re sharing some of the key content to catch up on. Our all-day executive event explored advanced strategies for digital product delivery, and leaders from companies leading the shift presented breakout sessions. We had nearly 4,400 registrants in all.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment. They have the ability to adjust quickly and effectively to changing circumstances.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

That’s how you keep moving forward and stay in the ring as things shift and change around you. Knowing how weaving innovation into your plan keeps you on your toes is your ticket to staying sharp in this quick-change world. Hit up events, dive into workshops, and get your team on board too.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an agile coach certification program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions. How do they go about humanising agility?

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 8, 2020

While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. Pandemic or not, the escalating exponential pace of disruption and change should not be surprising. Agility Isn’t Enough.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 23, 2021

And you should keep a close eye on the potential in-person summits as they’re subject to change. Normally, the Innovation Roundtable’s event convenes presenters from around the world. Needless to say, that’s had to change. The event structure is an experiment and one that promises some fascinating results.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 3, 2024

Organizations must embrace innovation ecosystems to harness the power of innovation and drive transformative change effectively. Build Relationships: Actively engage with ecosystem stakeholders, establish partnerships, and participate in events and initiatives. What are Innovation Ecosystems?

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

For me, the “cascading effect” for innovation is “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. The richness of innovation lies not just in the well planned, but in the sudden discovery, the pursuit of a game-changing innovation concept often stumbled upon.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

This does need a real change but can we achieve it? It is often an environment that we must encourage to become a ‘feeding frenzy’ of experimentation, learning and being adaptive, fluid and agile. We need a change, we are facing such constantly changing environments and challenges.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Ori Lahav, president of the non-profit IAPCO (International Association of Professional Congress Organisers) offers advice to event planners who must remain flexible during Covid-19. Is the public ready to return to in-person events? This is one of the enablers currently for local and regional events that are returning.

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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.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 11, 2024

Environmental Factor: The ability to adapt quickly is often facilitated by open communication channels, collaborative decision-making, and agile organizational structures. Continuous Learning and Innovation: Characteristics: Learning is not a one-time event but an ongoing process.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 3, 2023

How many constantly upgrade their skills, not just attend events? Organizations need balance, and innovation tends to constantly push to upset this need; that’s its nature as it seeks to change. Something needs to change as the ground is shifting beneath our executive feet. We are all operating in a different era.

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Braden Kelley

JUNE 27, 2017

On July 12, 2017 I will be speaking at Change Management Review’s Virtual Change Management Summit 2017™, a curated collection of brand new pre-recorded global webinars bringing thought leaders and senior practitioners in the change management profession together. The purpose … Continue reading →

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 13, 2024

We all recognize that markets are changing, complexity is growing, and challenges are more formidable to manage without extended help. This requires all businesses to face rapidly changing business environments to design their response rates and abilities to react differently. How radical will this be?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

You can learn from others, you can adapt but you need to clearly understand where you are in your own evolution and capacity to undertake change. How they evolve, in new growth, in their changing business model, in their innovation, in their capabilities to manage the “spread” of activities required to transform.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2018

Firstly we need to revisit any work we are thinking about changing more on an “adaptive enterprises and systems” way of thinking. We need to find ways to deal with unpredictable, discontinuous change and make this more predictable for us to manage.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

What simple thing can a company do to change their conversation / perspective about innovation? But it can also be a new process, a new combination, a new workflow – really across the board changing the existing order of things, but in such a way that new value is created. I asked them all: What is your definition of “innovation”?

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. Far too much IM solution providers think their models, components, upgrades and yearly upgrades as the big event. Innovation software is no different from the tides of change sweeping industries.

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Planview

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PI Planning in Agile is often held quarterly, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to lay out the product delivery cadence. When scaling agility to your whole organization, it’s important to have an overarching cadence to keep teams in sync. What is PI Planning in Agile? Challenges to Efficient PI Planning in Agile.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 1, 2020

The best place to start is looking at this great framework from the present context, one where we are in disorder, possibly in chaos or seemingly chaotic, is recognizing not just how events are “hitting us but how we need to get out of them.”We Our purchasing habits need to change from constant consumption to more reuse.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to reframe disruption to increase the possibilities for game-changing inventions and innovations to succeed in an uncertain and unstable future. Finally, safely exit your comfort zone, unlearn, learn, and relearn variations in how you feel, think, and act to remain agile, adaptive, and innovative during uncertain and unstable times.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. It is no wonder we’re growing increasingly pessimistic about making a positive change to a different transforming model within organizations. Every time we begin to call on innovation, we face negative forces.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 15, 2020

The same can hold true for newer employees in an organization, as changing may seem like a risky proposition in the early stages of their career. Change Isn’t Complacent. In this ever-changing world of digital transformation, either you are the disruptor or the disrupted , placing your future in someone else’s hands.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing. Firstly, we need to ask, “Why change the innovation narrative? My work over the past few years is gaining the experience and insights to attempt to tell this story of needed change.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While lean process improvement originated in manufacturing, it has evolved into a vital strategy for sectors ranging from healthcare to technology, where speed, precision, and agility drive competitive advantage. Kaizen Events : These are short, focused improvement sessions where teams target specific areas for rapid enhancements.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

How can we establish Innovation as the vital link to a process of change and strategic direction options? Innovation can drive change, change is required. Without innovation, we progressively die, as we provide no option for change, no prospects of new, different growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

In the event, I was asked what the difference is and why we should shift from today’s traditional innovation models to this interconnected one where innovation ecosystems are the foundation. Agile Adoption of External Innovations: Description: Adopt an agile approach to assimilating external innovations.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 15, 2018

The most impressive presentation I reviewed in 2017 was the one from Munich Re, held on 21st November 2017 under their investor day event. The Insurance industry has been struggling to adjust and adapt to the rapid changes occurring yet so many are hanging onto the traditional way of doing things.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 20, 2019

This transition into an "as a service" world changes the ownership model, the customer experience model and the revenue model, all at the same time. I asked a question to many companies about this topic in a recent event. Established companies will need to become uber agile and able to change quickly, something most are not able to do.

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