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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Leveraging AI for Upskilling During Transformations
Leapfrogging
MARCH 27, 2025
Benefits of Integrating AI in Training and Development Incorporating AI into training and development programs offers numerous advantages that can significantly improve the upskilling process. Explore this further in our section on virtual reality and AI for training.
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McKinsey 7S Model Framework for Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 19, 2025
For example, Amazon continuously evaluates its 7S elements to ensure its customer-centric strategy is supported by agile systems, an efficient logistics structure, and a culture of innovation. Increases Competitive Advantage Creates an agile, well-integrated organization that responds effectively to challenges.
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Don't break the rules - become flexible and agile
Jeffrey Phillips
JULY 26, 2019
Rather, what we should be working on is changing not "the rules" but how we think about business, how business operates, and how we best engage customers and their needs. Not rules but engagement Rules are restrictive and binding, they keep ideas, people and processes in line.
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70-20-10 Innovation Rule Template
Leapfrogging
MARCH 26, 2025
Getting Started with the 70-20-10 Innovation Rule Implementing the 70-20-10 model requires deliberate planning, stakeholder engagement, and a dynamic approach to innovation portfolio management. For example, core innovation might follow an agile project cycle, while disruptive innovation could use design thinking or open innovation models.
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SMART Metrics Template for Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 14, 2025
Increasing motivation and engagement Helps employees and teams stay accountable for their performance. Facilitating agile adaptation Allows for adjustments based on performance trends and market changes. Train 80% of employees in digital transformation strategies within one year. What tools or systems will track data?
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Balanced Scorecard Template for Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 12, 2025
For example, Teslas Balanced Scorecard may include objectives related to financial growth, customer adoption of electric vehicles, battery efficiency innovations, and employee training programs. Learning & Growth Perspective Evaluates employee engagement, training, and corporate culture. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!
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Objectives & Key Results (OKR) Template
Leapfrogging
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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Evaluating the Impact of Organizational Change Using AI
Leapfrogging
MARCH 27, 2025
This personalization enhances engagement and reduces resistance to change. Incorporating AI into your post-change analysis processes can transform the way you evaluate and manage organizational changes, leading to more successful outcomes and a more agile organization.
Key Outcome Indicators Template
Leapfrogging
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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Help Clients Achieve Operational Efficiency with AI
Leapfrogging
MARCH 3, 2025
As a business consultant, this means you can transform traditional processes into more agile, responsive, and efficient workflows. By leveraging these AI-driven components, you can help clients achieve optimized processes, making their operations more efficient, agile, and responsive to market demands.
Key Performance Indicators Template for Business Strategy
Leapfrogging
MARCH 14, 2025
Supporting continuous learning and adaptation Helps businesses stay agile and responsive to market shifts. For example, Netflix uses KPIs like viewer engagement, retention rates, and content performance to optimize its streaming platform and improve user experience. Establish regular performance review meetings.
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OGSM Strategy Framework Template
Leapfrogging
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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Design Thinking Toolkit Template
Leapfrogging
MARCH 21, 2025
Whether improving an internal workflow, designing a new customer experience, or developing a groundbreaking product, Design Thinking provides a repeatable framework that helps organizations stay agile and competitive. Provide training sessions to familiarize teams with the methodology.
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Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 20, 2024
Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery. Scenario Selection: Identifying and selecting the right scenarios is crucial, especially where ecosystem engagement and the use of generative AI can be central.
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Technology Life Cycle Template
Leapfrogging
MARCH 21, 2025
Engage early adopters and industry visionaries to generate interest and initial traction. Implement agile business models that allow for rapid adaptation to technological changes. Allocate resources for training and support to facilitate a seamless transition. Secure funding or partnerships to support early-stage development.
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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience
Leapfrogging
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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Enhance Your Client’s Growth Strategy Using AI Tools
Leapfrogging
MARCH 3, 2025
This agility ensures that your clients can stay ahead of the competition. With AI, you can: Develop highly personalized marketing campaigns Optimize product offerings based on customer preferences Enhance customer engagement strategies For instance, AI tools can analyze customer data to identify buying patterns and preferences.
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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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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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How Consultants Can Use AI to Drive Organizational Change
Leapfrogging
MARCH 3, 2025
Increased Efficiency : By automating repetitive tasks, AI frees you up to focus on more strategic aspects of your consulting engagements. Training and Deployment : Train client teams to effectively use AI tools, promoting an organizational culture that embraces technological innovation.
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Predicting and Addressing Barriers to Change Using AI
Leapfrogging
MARCH 27, 2025
This dynamic approach ensures that your change management efforts remain agile and responsive to evolving circumstances. This might involve enhancing communication plans, providing additional training, or involving key stakeholders in the change process. AI can identify skill gaps and recommend personalized training modules.
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Enhancing Consumer Insights with Artificial Intelligence
Leapfrogging
MARCH 21, 2025
This agility is particularly important in fast-paced markets where consumer preferences can change rapidly. This allows you to create targeted marketing campaigns that are more likely to engage and convert. You may need to invest in training your team or hiring experts to ensure a smooth integration process.
Why Innovation Is Key to Staying Ahead in Strategic Planning
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Flexibility : Innovation gives your business the agility to dodge and weave with market changes. Implementing Agile Processes for Rapid Innovation Deployment Slapping agile techniques onto your strategy game plan can turbocharge how fast you launch new, shiny solutions.
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4 Fantastic Agile Sprint Retrospective Templates
InnovationTraining.org
JANUARY 22, 2021
These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Facilitating Agile Retrospectives Workshop. This board is directly from a Miro team member and is designed to help facilitators of retrospective sessions to guide their agile team effectively through the process.
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Everything is changing faster- can we respond differently in our Innovation work?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 5, 2020
Time takes on a different meaning; we are cutting out those (unproductive) meetings, the train, car, and flight times, and we have the luxury to do what? I was pondering some thoughts around the quest for growth, the demands for change, and the need to become nimble, agile, and more dynamic in what we do. We still seem to be trapped.
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Unleashing the Power of Experiential Intelligence (XQ) in Leadership Training Programs
Leapfrogging
MAY 8, 2024
It allows leaders to draw upon a rich reservoir of past encounters to navigate complex situations with agility and informed confidence. Incorporating XQ into Leadership Training Programs Experiential Intelligence (XQ) is a critical component of effective leadership development.
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How Inovation Affects Leadership and Reskilling: Industry 4.0 Case
Idea to Value
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
leaders will foster a transparent and creative culture that isn’t afraid of agile changes and evolution. They’ll keep their people engaged, even when they’re concerned about the arrival of new processes and tech. Ensuring On-Going Opportunities for Job Training. That is ongoing training opportunities.
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Your Future Lies in Occupying the Innovation Job and Using the Skills it Provides
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 11, 2019
Yet we are recognizing it will also giving rise to a number of emerging jobs yet to be identified or formulized to be trained in. We need to manage reskilling and upskilling to mitigate against both job losses and talent shortages but prepared the future workforce to be more nimble, agile and fluid. We need increased flexibility.
The 7 Levels of A.I. usage: How advanced are you?
Idea to Value
MARCH 14, 2025
It also improves data security and consistent use of tools, since often enterprise-level AI tools have options to only use uploaded data within the organisation, reducing the risk of it being spread outside agreed locations or used to train the AI models themselves. The aim is to save time on repetitive tasks while testing the benefits of AI.
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How A.I. can help you better lead projects and teams
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Regular updates, clear documentation, and stakeholder engagement can prevent misunderstandings. Poor Stakeholder Engagement: When key stakeholders arent aligned or involved, misunderstandings and lastminute changes become inevitable. process automation, and agile methodologies can drastically improve success rates. Leverage A.I.
Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment
Boxes and Arrows
JANUARY 31, 2010
I had worked with SCRUM before, done training with Ken Schwaber (author 1 and co-founder of the Agile Alliance) and knew a few things from experience about how to achieve some success integrating a design team within SCRUM. Where did Agile come from? Agile can be thought of as a risk-management strategy.
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So Where Is Innovation Heading?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 27, 2018
We are seeing blurred boundaries, digital is raising the stakes and fear of missing out, it is upping the speed at which others are competing with new concepts, ideas, and engagement with customers. The encouragement of having open feedback loops, both internally and externally, engaging the customer needs exploiting.
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Strategic Planning and the Demand for Innovation
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Provide Resources : Make sure your team has the tools, training, and time to work their magic. Quick Reflexes (Agility): Ever seen a cat dodge a falling vase? That’s agility. Team Vibing (Employee Engagement): Feel the excitement in the air? Strategy What’s It About?
Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Within the value proposition, we actively shape these journeys, building adaptability, agility and innovation for long-term success in the changing business environment we all face today. A landscape and the navigation skills that provide the adaptability and agility needed for successful innovation in the current business landscape.
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Working through the current disorder we find ourselves in
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 31, 2020
Unlock and seek out opportunities to learn, to be trained in new thinking, different techniques and methods. Set about your own organized training and education program, understanding that this moves in steps of learning, so take this in stages of absorbing the lessons and then find creative ways to apply them.
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Why generalists will become more valuable
Jeffrey Phillips
MAY 5, 2021
Younger people have had more specialized training and businesses have gone through business process re-engineering, ERP and outsourcing to optimize practices, so younger workers have had less opportunity to cross corporate silos or gain broader expertise. Finally, two external factors will have impact on this phenomenon as well.
Unlocking Potential: How to Lead Culture Change for Greater Innovation and Business Growth
Leapfrogging
APRIL 3, 2024
Embracing culture change also positions your organization to better navigate uncertainties and challenges, making it more agile and resilient. To delve deeper into leveraging cultural strengths for these purposes, visit leverage organizational culture for greater business agility and resilience.
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HUMANISING AGILITY
ImagineNation
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. 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.
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Innovation fails because humans have emotions
Idea to Value
MARCH 26, 2020
Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. The original process showed how an idea should first follow design thinking principles, before being turned into a solution using agile development, and finally being piloted and launched.
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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design
Ecosystems4Innovating
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Exploring Ecosystem Collaborations : Engaging with external ecosystems, industry networks, and thought leaders can provide valuable insights, foster cross-pollination of ideas, and uncover opportunities for strategic partnerships or collaborative innovation.
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Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Generative AI design.
Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
This is a work in progress only, so let’s continue on that journey: Achieving an Ecosystem AI-driven innovation engagement process Thinking through any engagement process, one that is required to break through traditional innovation processes needs to break down the new areas of discovery.
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What Will the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Be on Digital Transformation?
IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
While the standard techniques, such as training and VPNs, will help, innovation will be crucial to anticipating threats and handling potential risks. Innovation teams will be called on to build events and find platforms that engage, delight, and educate to make these hybrid events successful. And those that do will travel fewer miles.
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Your Digital Transformation Guide: Key Tools and Strategies
Qmarkets
MARCH 19, 2025
Companies that fail to evolve risk losing market share to more agile competitors that use technology to optimize operations and enhance customer experiences. By integrating machine learning models, businesses can make smarter decisions in real-time, leading to improved operational agility and better service delivery.
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