Daniel Burrus

APRIL 12, 2017

To jump ahead with both confidence and lower risk, you will need more than agility. What was number one on the list of attributes central to effective global market leadership? Agility serves an important role helping companies react quickly to unforeseen change. Agility without learning to Anticipate has trouble doing that.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

If we take the three ‘classic’ strategic thrusts of product leadership, operational excellence, or customer intimacy, then we need to make clear the potentially different emphasis points within any suggested innovation approach that we should take. The need for a real alignment of strategy and innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 18, 2021

I believe the value of working the seven domains of this framework, named the Leadership Alignment Workmat has significant value within and across any organization. Benefits of applying the Leadership Alignment Work Mat. The Leadership Alignment Work Mat resolves the litmus test. We believe C.E.O’s

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. Some people think being agile is a mindset. Other think it’s an innate leadership skill. If you have the right tools, anyone can both build agility into how you think and make it the foundation of your business processes.

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Viima

AUGUST 25, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 2, 2016

This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. Everything invented seems to have been disrupted or seems about too.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. Most startups state that their aim is to be disruptive or to disrupt a specific industry.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 22, 2016

The first intent was to bridge this innovation leadership gap, it needed to gain the leaderships attention that they needed to address this; they were the very people allowing a gap of critical understanding to how innovation fitted into the organizations plans. Agility Innovation / Ovo Innovation. All rights reserved.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a world where exponential change and digital disruptions abound, you simply cannot rest on your laurels and merely rely on what you’ve already built. Instinctually for many, we choose to play it safe and protect and defend the status quo with agility. From there, it’s just collecting money and living a good life.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With technology advancing at an unprecedented pace, consumer behaviors shifting, and new market entrants disrupting traditional industries, your ability to innovate determines your potential for growth and sustainability. Incorporating innovative practices is essential for adapting to market changes and ensuring long-term success.

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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. Organizations that lack the business agility to pivot could risk falling behind and losing their competitive edge.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Think about some of the most powerful and industry-disruptive products and services that have changed the game through today, and try to put them in context with the concept of 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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 15, 2024

Dynamic Ecosystems provide the agility to reconfigure partnerships, leverage emerging technologies, and pivot swiftly to changing market conditions, ensuring lasting competitiveness and relevance. Each layer is interconnected and contributes to the collaborative ecosystem’s overall success.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors and teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. Magazine Great Leadership Speaker. Twitter: johnsonwhitney. Twitter: letsgrowleaders.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2018

Overhaul though, I was a little disappointed, as it lacked the real leadership insights you come to expect, strong personalities did not seem to shine through this year from the speakers and panelists give. So much of our known world will become disrupted, it will challenge society, it will bring about new behavior.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

Organization layers grind against each other, like tectonic plates that force further disruption and upheaval. To bring a better level of clarity to the many left open, fuzzy, and still so unclear areas within organizations, leadership must find better ways to resist their impulses to constantly re-organize.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The agility to adapt to AI advancements is now a vital component of surviving and thriving in the modern marketplace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Long before COVID-19 disrupted everyday life across the globe, the shift to a more distributed, flexible, and agile workforce was well underway. In 2019, more than 4.3 million Americans worked from home at least part-time. Virtual work has grown by 115% in the last decade.

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Faisal Hoque

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Agility has become the new organization currency in the age of AI. Agility, by definition, is an organization’s response to change and challenges driven by macro- and microeconomic conditions. BUSINESS AGILITY INDEX In a follow-on study conducted by my team in 2010, publicly traded U.S. We called this the Business Agility Index.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you actively seek to disrupt yourself, your team, and your organisation to effect sustainable success in the new year, or not, we all need to face, adapt and learn from the range of challenging disruptive events that impacted us in the past 12 months. We have all been challenged by disruption.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Power of Resilience in Leadership: Building Mental Toughness for Challenging Times In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, global interconnectedness, and unforeseen challenges, the ability to adapt and persevere through adversity has become a hallmark of effective leadership.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 4, 2021

We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. New Leadership. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work. New Behavior. They must walk the talk.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

More than two thirds of executives surveyed in IBM’s latest research report said that HR is ripe for disruption – and the time is now to make a move to fundamentally change the way organizations think about their human resources department. Invest in the new role of leadership. Image courtesy of IBM study.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2022

Firstly you have to ask what you are trying to achieve, is it incremental innovation, distinctive, disruptive or even radical? At each start point, we need a diagnostic and climate assessment, we need to gauge desire and commitment and we always need leadership commitment and understanding. Firstly what are you trying to achieve?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand…architecting your business for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty”. It allows us to deliver the resilience and agility that these interesting times demand.”

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Make sure senior leadership is saying and DOING things that send a clear message: trying new things is fine, we understand not everything is going to work, and it’s vital we look beyond our current environment to identify innovation strategy possibilities. 6 Stays Agile.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Startup Innovation in Corporate Growth In today’s rapidly changing business environment, startup innovation is often at the forefront of technological advancement and market disruption. Team Strength : The leadership and team should possess the necessary skills, experience, and drive to grow the business.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 15, 2020

Complacency is even more detrimental in the environment we live in today, dominated by exponential digital disruption. Your hard work and resulting success can create a level of comfort that blinds you to the Hard Trends predicting incoming disruptions. Agility Without Anticipation. Why Is Complacency Dangerous?

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Most of us are aware that both the organisational leadership and cultural paradigms have shifted , due to the accelerating demands of the current global VUCA/BANI operating environment. What is a paradox? Why is it important to navigate a paradox?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Give collaboration enough time.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 13, 2024

Why Focusing on Industry Expertise Over Cultural Leadership in C-Suite Hiring is a Strategic Mistake As businesses continue to evolve, the qualities sought in C-suite leaders must evolve too. The Acquirable Nature of Industry Expertise vs. The Art of Cultural Leadership Industry expertise, while valuable, is often overrated.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They usually focus very heavily on the market and pull end of the spectrum by being very customer-oriented and agile in their innovation work. Without strong leadership, a clear strategic focus, and strong alignment across the organization, it’s quite likely that the situation will only end up in chaos. Clear focus.

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? One of the greatest challenges business leaders and, by extension, their enterprises face in today’s disruptive world is the ability to respond quickly to constant, unforeseen changes like this one. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Agile Adoption of External Innovations: Description: Adopt an agile approach to assimilating external innovations. This expansion enhances the potential for breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovations. Co-Creation with Customers and End-Users: Description: Engage customers and end-users directly in the co-creation process.

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s what an agile mind-set’s made of. Want to know what disruption looks like? One of the greatest challenges business leaders and, by extension, their enterprises face in today’s disruptive world is the ability to respond quickly to constant, unforeseen changes like this one. AGILITY: IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.

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