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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

The concept of “agility” in business originated from the field of agile software development. Agile software development involves “sprints” in which teams define short-term goals (typically two weeks), work diligently to achieve them, and then apply what they learned from the sprint to their next sprint’s goals.

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Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

Innovation in Practice

In Cragun and Sweetman's upcoming book, Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption [Greenleaf Book Group Press, July 2016] , the authors propose a simple formula, common principles, and set of tools for individuals and organizations facing disruptive and radical change.

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Digital Innovation Units: Recommendations, Trends and Conclusions

Integrative Innovation

Infront Consulting and business magazine Capital recently published their second joint annual study (in German) on the Digital Innovation Unit landscape in Germany. Company builders that operate decentralized isolated to explore and develop disruptive innovations that are beyond the core business have been a rarity so far.

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Culture of Innovation Lessons from CSAA

Planview

CSAA has proven that an established company can in fact transform its culture and turn it into a competitive advantage, which Harvard Business Review highlights in this article. They were named one of the most innovative healthcare companies in the world by Fortune Magazine. Established enterprises are transforming their cultures.

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What Executives are Reading This Week

MSSBTI

“If we don’t change, our business will continue to decline, but our people resist,” or “We are facing a disruption and we need to change, but our culture does not permit it. Harvard Business Review / Matt Brubaker and Chris Mitchell. Eades reviews the unchanging fundamentals of leadership as well as what matters the most as a leader.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. the company had.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

Schneider National, a transportation and logistics firm based in Green Bay, Wisconsin was losing deals due to a lengthy response time to. Make abnormal flow visual so every employee can easily tell when flow has been disrupted. customer requests for proposals (RFPs). Ignoring Your Most Precious Resource.

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