mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The above quote is just one of the numerous motivational phrases scattered in frames here at MJV Marketing. Our marketing team has grown a lot over the years. MJV Marketing: A World of Challenges. Before Agile, MJV’s marketing team encountered many difficulties in dealing with its routine challenges.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That’s because a defining trait of best-in-class organizations is their ability to quickly pivot in the face of changing market conditions, emerging and disruptive technology, and shifting customer demands. What’s important is your ability to identify when to course correct and successfully execute pivots.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. I sat down recently (and virtually, of course!)

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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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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. Stay flexible, agile and adaptable, and have up-to-date contingency plans in place to adjust course if needed and, in a controlled manner, options to existing business strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 31, 2019

Just one more post about the importance of speed and agility and I'll leave this tired trope alone. Building on these or other platforms, one can get to the market much more quickly and efficiently for digital products. So good digital processes and insights CAN offer more speed to insight, speed to product and speed to market.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

However, adapting to this new environment doesn’t just mean investing in the latest hardware and software on the market. leaders will foster a transparent and creative culture that isn’t afraid of agile changes and evolution. This could mean investing in: Specialist training courses. There’s more to Industry 4.0

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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

MARCH 27, 2018

Of course, this shift requires really big changes in strategy, operations, the organization and in each individuals orientation. Digital is demanding so much in new processes that need to be more agile, responsive, reflective of new insights at increased speed and fluid in the design of those undertaking the solution to react.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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? We need to design our systems to be highly agile. It adjusts and you learn.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 30, 2018

Whether we are talking about change in your global markets, in your industry or in your customer base, change is everywhere. 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.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route. For instance, a company weak in social media could benefit from a marketing student who specializes in social media or user experience.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And what happens when corporations with business models and structures and governing capabilities built for slower change and market dominance meet the agile, nimble competitors and shifting customer expectations at this unexpected crossroads? Innovation has been a watchword for corporations for about 20 years.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Of course, much of what we have will still remain. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition. Now we have to weave them together. This does need a real change but can we achieve it?

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business.

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ITONICS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Once again, the Innovation Alliance successfully trained employees as Agile Innovation Managers. From Ideas To Market. Everyone agrees that the training provided new, practice-oriented incentives and insights (and of course lots of fun). The post Congratulations to the new Agile Innovation Managers 2017!

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 14, 2020

How prepared are you for consistently falling prices Price increases - except of course for the price increases for food and health care. Financial markets - we may need to prepare for wild swings in the markets as an ongoing reality, and dramatic shifts in the availability of capital and the price of money.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

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Huub Rutten

APRIL 6, 2021

Andrew is a senior Director System Engineering in a big manufacturing company: “You should understand Huub, Agile gives a lot of freedom to the development teams. Of course they like that. The company is moving completely towards Agile and management wants all of us to work in an Agile way. It is a nightmare.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 4, 2017

So, the marketing of Design Thinking kicks in, looking to capitalize and add a real momentum. It quickly became simply sold as a process, just like Six Sigma, it became limited by those jumping on the latest concept not being true design thinkers, apart from attending a short course or two. The ramping up begins.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 13, 2016

It's the natural order of economics that when an opportunity is available, everything rushes in to fill the vacuum, and as the market becomes crowded various offerings must differentiate themselves from the others to demonstrate value. This is where terms like "agile" or "lean" can come into play. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Increasingly this means that most companies are likely to hone their incremental innovation skills, which in reality are an extension of familiar activities combining lean, agile and Six Sigma, and I believe will partner with startups and external firms to create interesting or disruptive new ideas.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

Executive commitment - It's hard enough to get the existing products or services to market, let alone try to create new solutions in an uncertain innovation process. You need to find the creative thinkers, the outliers, the people plugged into customers and markets. And, the work isn't free and requires air cover. Want more innovation?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. Consumers are returning to the markets at a record pace, and thanks to the government's largess we have more funds to spend. But we are asking the wrong question.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. Invest in Ongoing Education: Offer opportunities for your team to learn new skills and understand emerging markets.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

As innovators we aren’t simply responding to external change, we are creating change, both for customers and for our companies and markets. Innovation requires increasing agility, flexibility and allowing creativity to flourish on a constant, evolving basis. the inside, proactive change vs external, reactive impact).

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Many employees and executives alike experienced and vividly remember the recession following the housing market crash in the mid to late 2000s. We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But by combining it with anticipation, agility can and does serve a quantifiable purpose.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 23, 2021

For example, February’s focus on startup collaborations, agile mindsets, and innovation in sustainability practices. Covering international innovation, retail and marketing, media and entertainment, and CPG and food, each two-day event is free, although you will need to get a ticket. . Needless to say, that’s had to change.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Of course, once we have our ways to measure we must calibrate this against others, in seeing the outcomes feeding back from our customers and markets but it is a journey that you can undertake as you have the best grasp of what is needed or required. You hear the word “exponential” often.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

If change is so prevalent and competitors are constantly entering and leaving markets, we don't need to worry about change management, we need to be change agents and create change capacity in the business. Of course, concepts like risk tolerance and incentives will also need to be addressed.

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