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. Set goals around your innovation pipeline.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Strategy Technical Review 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration Creativity Software Review 113

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

A culture that embraces change and is open to new ideas will naturally drive innovation, leading to greater business growth and the development of competitive advantages. Moreover, in today’s fast-paced business environment, agility and resilience are essential for long-term success.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. Do people get on with each other?

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Case Study Study Agile Underperforming Technical Team 84

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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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.

Culture 100

Culture Underperforming Technical Team Agile Leadership 100

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. Breaking Down all the Silos.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team eBook Project 72

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

By adopting a composable approach, organizations can achieve greater agility, adaptability, and scalability in their innovation efforts. They can more effectively respond to market dynamics, experiment with new ideas, and integrate diverse perspectives and inputs into the innovation process.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 148

Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Here’s why adaptation is crucial: Sustained Relevance: Staying in tune with market changes ensures that your business remains relevant to your customers’ evolving needs. Competitive Advantage: By embracing innovation, you can differentiate your business from competitors and potentially capture a larger market share.

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Disruption Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 100

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By fostering innovation in the workplace, you lay the groundwork for your organization to adapt, thrive, and dictate market trends. Companies that prioritize innovation tend to report higher growth rates, better market share, and increased profitability. This includes reviewing how ideas are generated, developed, and implemented.

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Underperforming Technical Team Training Innovation Culture 100

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. We fail to invest in foresight and insight, continually not adapting and adjusting our organizational skill set around a more agile, adaptive, highly responsive innovating and creative organization.

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Innovation Programs Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation. The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? But we are asking the wrong question.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Product Development Marketing 135

etventure

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. We love Agile at etventure – but we also understand it can create stress and confusion. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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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. The integration of AI technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and has disrupted established market dynamics. You must recognize the signals of change and prepare to navigate through them.

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Strategy Strategy Change Underperforming Technical Team 100

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team LEAN 130

Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention. It does not include product development.

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Product Development LEAN Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 75

Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

And in practice, we combine three important ideas: design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile methodology. Methods are needed that focus on the customer experience, allow us to adapt to new information, and help us make decisions based on market-based evidence. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand.

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LEAN Examples Agile Design Thinking 105

Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a Business Planning Manager or Strategy Manager, understanding the role of AI and its potential benefits is essential to maintain a competitive edge in today’s market. AI tools can assist in various strategic facets, such as market research, operational efficiency, and customer engagement.

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Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 100

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Technology – Market . As we can see from the matrix, even though Apple is all about customer experience, their approach to innovation is still very technology-driven and focused on launching and pushing new products and services they’ve been developing and refining for lengthy periods of time.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture Industry 37

Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Many innovation teams are so concerned with being agile and entrepreneurial that they spend precious little time understanding where to point their efforts.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN 100

Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I was reviewing the website of a strategy consulting firm recently, and their focus on strategy and team alignment felt like the same old, same old. And we've taught people, especially in medium and large organizations, that most change is bad - bad for them individually and bad for the company.

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Change Strategy Strategy Artificial Inteligence 129

Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 26, 2015

They'll become products and services when the product or service development process in their organization provides resources for the new ideas, and spend time developing, validating, testing the new products and finally launching them. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Innovation 100

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Still I came away with a 50% achievement mark which was not so bad on the overall innovation intent I had set myself but one area was very frustrating to move forward upon- the subject of risk and how it is treated in innovation management. Blood pressure pills came in handy here also. As a result, promising ideas are often smothered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Report Management 100

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategy should be continually developed and re-evaluated, rather than developed once and put on a shelf. If change is so prevalent and competitors are constantly entering and leaving markets, we don't need to worry about change management, we need to be change agents and create change capacity in the business.

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Culture Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Agile 120

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 24, 2023

This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company. Hinders Responsiveness to Change In a rapidly changing business landscape, agility and adaptability are crucial. Result: This empathetic redesign led to increased market share and strong customer loyalty.

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Design Thinking Culture Design Underperforming Technical Team 108

Matthew May

MAY 22, 2015

A significant portion of my strategic facilitation work is with internal functions, a click or two below corporate and business unit strategy: marketing, human resources, purchasing, and even internal strategy groups. There is good news and bad news in this. Automation? Disintegration?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys and priorities. Branding and Marketing. Innovation. Extreme Creativity.

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Creative Thinking Creativity Company eBook 89

Planview

JUNE 28, 2024

Paired with immediate customer input, product-based models enable increased agility, faster time to market, improved customer satisfaction, and optimized resource allocation. Benchmarking the Shift Last year, we published a report that detailed how people, teams, and companies navigate the adoption of product operating models.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. A world where others, far more nimble and agile, are able to respond as they are more laser-focused.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Industry 140

mjvinnovation

MARCH 26, 2019

In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. There are good and bad things about this approach. The Agile model and its peculiarities. Check them out. The positive aspects of the Waterfall model.

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Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

CMOE

JULY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all. Strategy Promotes Strategic Agility. The plan is further divided into annual goals.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Training 91

Moves the Needle

JUNE 3, 2016

The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. We also know from cognitive behavioral therapy that one of the best ways to change a bad habit is to replace it with a good habit. *This post originally appeared on Mind the Product.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Disruption Marketing 83

Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 9, 2020

The stock market can whipsaw through a thousand points of gain or loss in a day. The markets and economic conditions have already been changing dramatically, even before VUCA. Fourth, be more nimble and agile. Doing good data collection and analysis is important, but so is trusting your team and going with your instincts.

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Underperforming Technical Team Trends Data Agile 100

Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Developers own the code, business owns the proposition, yet design is considered a “service.” One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The team also keeps the design vision up to date, updating it as they learn from customers. Design itself is a product.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Roadmap Design 94

Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Innov8rs | Corporate venture studios offer innovation teams the freedom to operate with the spirit, passion, and resilience of entrepreneurs, all while leveraging organizational resources. However, building successful innovation teams in this context requires careful consideration. What are the key ingredients?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

Can we find ways to be highly adaptable, agile and fluid in grabbing and taking the parts of the innovation system and constructing them into that design and process that works for that specific challenge? We need to innovate, to evolve, to sustain ourselves and maintain our market positions in a rapidly evolving world.

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