Humanizing Agility
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 20, 2024
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs.
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Leadership Alignment Work Mat for making Innovation fully connected.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 18, 2021
I do 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. We call this the engagement- alignment gap. The Leadership Alignment Work Mat resolves the litmus test.
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McKinsey 7S Model Framework for Business Strategy
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MARCH 19, 2025
Style The leadership and management approach within the organization. Optimize workforce productivity and leadership effectiveness. Encouraging cultural transformation and leadership development. Strengthens Leadership and Culture Reinforces management style and shared values.
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70-20-10 Innovation Rule Template
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MARCH 26, 2025
Justify innovation investments to leadership and stakeholders. It fosters alignment between innovation teams and executive leadership while offering a roadmap for innovation scalability and sustainability. Quarterly or biannual portfolio reviews help maintain agility and relevance. Link innovation goals to strategic KPIs.
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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics
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Hoshin Planning System Template for Business Strategy
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MARCH 11, 2025
Engage employees at all levels in strategic execution. Improves communication and engagement Encourages collaboration across all levels of the organization. Facilitates agility and adaptation Encourages ongoing refinement of strategy based on results. This process ensures alignment between leadership and front-line employees.
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First Mover Advantage Template for Business Strategy
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MARCH 18, 2025
A well-executed first mover strategy helps organizations: Establish market leadership and brand dominance. For example, Amazons early entry into e-commerce allowed it to dominate online retail, create a vast logistics network, and build a loyal customer base, setting the stage for its continued market leadership.
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How Inovation Affects Leadership and Reskilling: Industry 4.0 Case
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
Starts with Leadership 4.0. As with most changes in the modern workplace, the biggest transformations begin with the right leadership. Leadership 4.0 leaders will foster a transparent and creative culture that isn’t afraid of agile changes and evolution. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Most of the time, we discuss Industry 4.0
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The Challenging Conditions for today’s Innovation Practice
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 11, 2025
I mean it, innovation is starved, bleeding from a lack of resources, finances and top leadership resolve. We simply MUST attract the leadership of our organizations with a revised, comprehensive value proposition of how, why , what and where innovation needs to “sit” and be central in its value, impact and contribution.
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Technology Life Cycle Template
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MARCH 21, 2025
Technology Life Cycle in Business Strategy Managing technology effectively is crucial for sustained innovation and market leadership. Organizations that proactively track their technologys life cycle can avoid stagnation, capitalize on emerging trends, and maintain a leadership position in their industry.
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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience
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APRIL 3, 2024
It shapes the work environment, influences decision-making, and ultimately drives employee engagement and satisfaction. The Impact of Culture on Business Agility and Resilience Organizational culture is a powerful lever for enhancing business agility and resilience.
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Balanced Scorecard Template for Business Strategy
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MARCH 12, 2025
Learning & Growth Perspective Evaluates employee engagement, training, and corporate culture. Integrating scorecard objectives into leadership reviews and decision-making. For example, Meta (formerly Facebook) continuously refines its Balanced Scorecard to track user engagement, ad revenue performance, and ethical AI development.
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Gap Analysis Framework Strategy Template
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FEBRUARY 24, 2025
For example, an HR department conducting Gap Analysis might assess current employee engagement levels using surveys and exit interviews. For example, a software development team closing a bug resolution gap might implement agile sprint cycles to speed up fixes. Customer feedback and satisfaction surveys Identifying pain points.
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Objectives & Key Results Template for Business Strategy
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MARCH 11, 2025
Improve agility by enabling regular goal adjustments. Enhances Motivation and Engagement Encourages teams to set ambitious, inspiring objectives. For example, Spotify adjusts its OKRs for user engagement based on analytics from streaming behavior, recommendation effectiveness, and subscription retention rates.
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Objectives & Key Results (OKR) Template
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MARCH 5, 2025
Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.
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Discovery Driven Planning Template
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MARCH 26, 2025
User engagement or retention metrics. Educate leadership on the DDP process and its value. When embedded into project planning and strategic conversations, DDP enhances agility, reduces risk, and increases the chances of long-term success. This helps define financial targets that can later be tested and refined.
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Strategic Goals Strategy Template for Business
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MARCH 7, 2025
Strengthening AWS cloud computing leadership. Customer Experience Strengthening brand loyalty and engagement. Failure to Adapt to Changing Market Conditions – Rigid strategic goals can limit agility and responsiveness. Adapt to industry changes with agility and confidence. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!
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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in
Planview
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. Senior leaders are a significant driver in the success rate of an Agile transformation.
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Influence Without Authority: How Agile Coaches Use Data to Drive Change
Planview
JANUARY 28, 2025
In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Agile coaches are tasked with guiding teams through complex transformations, but they must do so without the traditional power to enforce changes. The following are key roles and responsibilities that define an effective Agile coach.
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Key Outcome Indicators Template
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MARCH 5, 2025
Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.
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OGSM Strategy Framework Template
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MARCH 5, 2025
Stakeholder Engagement: By integrating communication strategies, it ensures that all key stakeholders are aligned and involved throughout the change process. It is particularly beneficial in industries that operate in dynamic environments where agility and adaptability are essential for success.
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Revolutionize Your Innovation: Embrace the Power of Lean Startup Methodology
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DECEMBER 10, 2024
By leveraging best practices, such as agile product development and new product development strategies , you can mitigate risks and set the stage for successful product launches and service rollouts. For more on tailoring products to customer needs, delve into our resources on agile product development.
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Leadership Alignment Work Mat for making Innovation fully connected.
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. We call this the engagement- alignment gap. The Leadership Alignment Work Mat resolves the litmus test.
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Context Map Canvas Template
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MARCH 26, 2025
Communicate external insights effectively across departments and leadership. Engage teams from product, marketing, operations, compliance, and customer support to contribute to the canvas. Conclusion The Context Map Canvas is a vital tool for organizations seeking to innovate with awareness, agility, and foresight.
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Benchmarking Template
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MARCH 26, 2025
For cultural or organizational innovation, benchmarking leadership practices, employee engagement, or DEI metrics helps shape internal transformation initiatives. Incorporate benchmarking findings into strategic planning cycles, design thinking workshops, or agile backlogs. Assign ownership, timelines, and budgets.
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SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Ambitions, Results) Template
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FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Enhances organizational engagement Encourages participation and motivation by focusing on strengths. SOAR Analysis in Strategy SOAR Analysis plays a crucial role in strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational transformation. These can include: Expertise and talent Skilled workforce, leadership, innovation culture.
How A.I. can help you better lead projects and teams
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In this article, I am going to show you: The costs of projects and team leadership failing (and the incredible scale of project failure that rarely gets talked about) The reasons why so many projects fail (and how to avoid these pitfalls) How Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Ambiguity leads to confusion and misaligned efforts.
Lessons from Silicon Valley on Innovation and Engagement
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. The current state of technology can tell us a lot about how effective innovation strategy can drive consumer (and employee) engagement. Simply put, employee engagement matters. Key takeaways.
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7 Leadership Coaching Scenarios to Elevate Your Strategies
CMOE
MARCH 12, 2025
Thats why our team of leadership coaching experts prepared a list of varied circumstances that call for coaching in the workplace, shedding light on insights and practical strategies to harness. We start with some key benefits of coaching and then dive deeper into leadership coaching scenarios. Every individual is unique, after all.
Developing Leadership: How to Think Strategically as Leaders
CMOE
MARCH 17, 2025
Engaging in these conversations not only uncovers valuable sources of information but also fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Ask for Outside Perspectives Listening to and accepting outside perspectives is essential for strategic leadership. Recommended: What Are the Five Choices of Strategy?
Unlocking Organizational Potential: Developing Executive Leadership for Culture Change
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APRIL 3, 2024
Culture is shaped by a variety of factors, including the company’s mission, leadership styles, policies, work environment, and the behavior modeled by those at the top. Employees are more engaged, motivated, and committed to the organization’s success when they feel aligned with its cultural values.
Your Guide to Leadership Attributes and Competencies
CMOE
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
This comprehensive guide delves into the key leadership attributes and competencies that define exceptional leadership and provides valuable resources to bookmark along the way. Competencies are a roadmap for what good leadership looks like and for organizations, answers the question, “What does leadership mean for us?”
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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
It needs bold leadership. Ecosystems that produce ultimately new business models often rest on a large capacity for agility, openness, and mutual dependency, sharing and appreciating the values amongst a peer group that all relate to this ‘need for change’ and buys into that collective vision outlined.
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Unleashing the Power of Experiential Intelligence (XQ) in Leadership Training Programs
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MAY 8, 2024
Understanding Experiential Intelligence (XQ) The concept of Experiential Intelligence (XQ) is increasingly gaining recognition in the sphere of leadership development. Importance of Experiential Intelligence in Leadership Development In the context of leadership development, XQ plays a vital role in shaping highly effective leaders.
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Lessons from Silicon Valley on Innovation and Engagement
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. The current state of technology can tell us a lot about how effective innovation strategy can drive consumer (and employee) engagement. Simply put, employee engagement matters. Key takeaways.
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Those that learn to frame the Strategic Innovation discussion are the big winners
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. Each strategic value proposition has significant implications to plan and work through.
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Innovative Work Models for the Future with Simon Hill
The Bliss Business Podcast
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Simon has helped organizations around the world rethink traditional work models, embracing agility, collaboration, and innovation in the modern workplace. How can technology be leveraged to enhance, rather than hinder, collaboration and engagement? FutureOfWork #Innovation #Leadership #TheBlissBusinessPodcast The workplace is evolving.
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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 3, 2016
It needs bold leadership. Ecosystems that produce ultimately new business models often rest on a large capacity for agility, openness, and mutual dependency, sharing and appreciating the values amongst a peer group that all relate to this ‘need for change’ and buys into that collective vision outlined.
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Benchmarking Analysis Strategy Template
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FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Driving continuous improvement Ensuring that businesses remain agile and adaptable in dynamic markets. customer satisfaction, employee engagement) should be analyzed together to form a holistic understanding. Resistance to Change – Employees and leadership may be hesitant to adopt new practices.
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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. Clear strategy leadership, a different organisational culture but with an emphasis more on partner engagement. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality. That is my place.
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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking
Paul Hobcraft
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
We are shifting critical capabilities that are growing the agility to trial, pilot and learn quickly as information flows in. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality. Combining data and human knowledge reveals this collaborative potential and a new set of competitive opportunities.
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Driving Growth through Leadership: Developing Innovative Leaders
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DECEMBER 10, 2024
Fostering Innovation Through Leadership In the rapidly changing business landscape, fostering innovation is no longer optional but a necessity for survival and growth. Employees are more likely to engage with an organization that values and invests in their growth and ideas.
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Unlocking Potential: How to Lead Culture Change for Greater Innovation and Business Growth
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APRIL 3, 2024
Initiating a culture change demands courage, vision, and a steadfast commitment from the leadership team. Learn how to further develop these leadership qualities at develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change. As a leader, your role is pivotal in steering this transformation.
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Emerging Blueprint for thinking through the Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs
Paul Hobcraft
JANUARY 22, 2024
Agile Organizational Structure: Why it Matters: A rigid structure can hinder adaptability. An agile structure allows for quick adjustments to changing conditions. Implement agile methodologies for iterative and adaptive approaches. Actionable Steps: Invest in leadership development programs.
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