Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team How To Collaboration 15

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We run an identification workshop with the project team, to assess the objectives, constraints and KPI?s

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Underperforming Technical Team Design Training Project 43

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

So marketers must develop the same mind-set and skills that allow agile tech and product-development teams to manage complex projects with many unknowns and moving parts. The clothing company found that its fleece-lined jacket was underperforming and quickly substituted another product for it.

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Agile Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Typically, teams in the field are well aware of the digital threats and opportunities within their area of the organization – usually more so than the corporate center.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

How should teams of experts working on knowledge-intensive projects be structured? Teams often struggle with how to get the most value from the members’ expertise, to minimize conflict, to integrate their diverse expertise, and to leverage it during all phases of a project. Another approach is to let teams self-manage.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Software Developers Software Development 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

They've proven remarkably successful for software developers and customer-centric industrial designers alike. They transformed design team morale and purpose in remarkably short time spans. Use cases are integral elements of the increasingly popular Agile and XP software development methodologies.

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Design Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Development 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A lot of companies excel at developing better products, yet these improvements are incremental. If you closely analyze unsuccessful attempts at developing breakthrough products, perhaps the most common trouble you find is not one of the usual suspects, such as lack of top-management commitment. Executing on Innovation. Innovation'

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Radical Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

When decisions based on those heuristics turn out to be bad ones, expectations are confounded and confusion results. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. The world seems suddenly unpredictable.

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Agile Software Developers 12

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her. This core team would become known as the Innovation Catalysts. Klaus Kaasgaard and Dan Wernikoff during a design review.

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