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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Agile Handbook Leadership Engagement 111

Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Here is a question for leaders and managers. They would like to see more experimentation in order to increase business agility and entrepreneurial activity. Fourth, change your attitude to risk; don’t minimise risk, manage it. Most CEOs get this. They see the need for innovation and are frustrated with the rate of change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. Drawing from a recent significant build at Lattice, an HR software startup, three key factors emerge as essential for success in managing large projects.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 22, 2024

Braden Kelley is a popular innovation keynote speaker creating workshops, masterclasses, webinars, tools, and training for organizations on innovation, design thinking and change management.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. Most innovation experts often say that traditional management processes are not the way to run innovation projects. And this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders today know that they need to be agile — to change direction quickly in the face of changing or uncertain conditions. But a byproduct of agility is churn: The confusion and demotivation that comes from many such pivots. This can cause inefficiency that bogs down innovative projects and strategies.

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CMOE

MAY 19, 2022

You can’t have strategy without leadership. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure. Why Does Strategic Leadership Matter? Attributes & Characteristics of a Strategic Leader.

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Leadership Strategy Strategy Agile 128

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2024

When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.

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Leadership Agile Company Innovation 142

Leapfrogging

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. Moreover, in today’s fast-paced business environment, agility and resilience are essential for long-term success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture primed for agility and resilience is better equipped to respond to market shifts and challenges, positioning your organization for sustained success. Leadership is Proactive : Leaders are prepared to guide and support their teams through change.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It needs bold leadership. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation. Today you can argue differently, why what you see as needed is not the best managed alone, it needs a collaborative effort, as the final arbitrator is the consumer and they have increasingly demanding needs. Either they adapt or die.

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Leapfrogging

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. This strategy begins with leadership that exemplifies innovative thinking and a willingness to embrace new ideas.

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Leadership Roadmap Innovation Culture 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It needs bold leadership. It calls for bold management to instigate such a transformation. Today you can argue differently, why what you see as needed is not the best managed alone, it needs a collaborative effort, as the final arbitrator is the consumer and they have increasingly demanding needs. Either they adapt or die.

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Collaboration Disruption Innovation Technical Review 273

Leapfrogging

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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Training Leadership Technical Review Agile 100

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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How To Training Project Innovation 288

Viima

AUGUST 25, 2021

To get the outcomes the executives are expecting from innovation, they’d need to build an agile organization where innovation happens at scale. What makes this so difficult for large organizations is that a single innovation just isn’t enough to turn the course of the company. Unfortunately, that’s a lot easier said than done.

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Agile Innovation Course Disruption 105

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. Risk Management and Scenario Planning: Why it Matters: Uncertainty often brings risks.

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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. I go through a whole list of the psychology of why managers don’t like being asked for permission to innovate in another article here.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 9, 2024

Importance of Trust in Leadership In the realm of leadership, trust is not just a soft skill—it’s the very foundation upon which successful teams are built. Why Trust is Vital in Leadership Trust in leadership is the cornerstone of team cohesion and effectiveness.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Collaboration Meeting 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

To understand how change management can be a powerful tool in this process, explore use change management to transform organizational culture. Initiating a culture change demands courage, vision, and a steadfast commitment from the leadership team. As a leader, your role is pivotal in steering this transformation.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

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. As Peter Drucker famously said: What gets measured, gets managed. The answer I received was painful: That’s not what the client asked for.

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Technical Review Innovation Innovation Processes Project 248

CMOE

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Companies often have three levels in the management hierarchy: frontline, mid-level, and senior-level leadership. The leaders at each of these levels perform different duties, but no matter where you sit in the organization, agile thinking matters. Simply endeavoring to implement the agile process will not suffice.

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CMOE

JULY 29, 2021

Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives. What Is Change Management in Leadership?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers. One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership.

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Innovation Technical Review Creativity Leadership 254

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. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. But it’s not always easy to identify them.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 1, 2020

The reasoning is that first, managers crave power and more people to order about and, second, more people create more work for each other. Parkinson’s Law has often been used to victimize the civil service, but it is valid for all organizations devoid of good leadership and permeated by an unimaginative work ethic.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 8, 2016

This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. In the following, I will outline a model that attempts to help organizations implement a dual approach to innovation management. Therefore, it’s titled a model for integrative innovation management.

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Idea Management 100

Planview

MAY 16, 2022

Connection, alignment, trust, and how they relate to strategy and organizational effectiveness – these were the topics on everyone’s minds at our recent leadership team offsite meeting. Prioritizing Connection Within Our Leadership Team. They can engage in difficult conversations and come out of them stronger.

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Leadership Meeting Culture Course 98

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2020

A tough part of managing within larger organizations is in reducing the layers and competing forces, the underlying tensions that innovation (uncertainty) brings out? To the shareholder demanding immediate results but also to the management to hide behind this to create unnatural built-in tensions and often create a shearing effect.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 7, 2022

Lack of leadership, poor organizational culture, and unprepared people lead to failed integration of mergers. The most common reasons for failure are: People struggle to work with long checklists since it is difficult to manage the details. Some activities require an agile approach rather than the waterfall model. ?

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Design Thinking Design Culture Project 156

Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. The agility to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs. Access to a broader talent pool, unbound by geographic constraints.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. The agility to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs. Access to a broader talent pool, unbound by geographic constraints.

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Project Management Software Review Technical Review 100

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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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management. We are achieving a faster adaptation and exploring mentality.

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Technical Review Innovation Software Review Design 209

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The net effect, is it does prompt a greater desire, clarity of purpose, identification, and fit required at the senior management level and in general for innovation management construction. This approach lays out a process to manage the development of the capabilities and competencies needed. Gaining Alignment.

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