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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. While those skills are useful, they are not enough.

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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Organizations searching for efficiency tend to hire and promote employees who conform to group norms and encourage unity. Evidence suggests that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. According to US Department of Labor statistics from 2017, 47% of the workforce in the United States is women.

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What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups

Tom Spencer

My experience working with a start-up that has found a way to test the enzymatic degradability of different plastics with a hundred times increased efficiency was instructive in spotting the mistakes failed trailblazers often make. Start-up in the Plastics Industry.

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Taking Control of Technology

Chad Barr

Back in 2011, IBM’s “Watson” computer beat out Jeopardy! The question of whether technology controls you, or you control technology, comes down to one factor: Your ability to smartly leverage whatever technologies make you more efficient. But in the process, these professionals end up hurting their productivity.

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Economies of Scope - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

by Tom Spencer on November 14, 2011 · 0 comments  ·  Image Source. Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. For example, SMEs currently account for more than 99% of businesses in Europe ( Economist Intelligence Unit 2011 ).

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Organizational change resilience is responding productively to significant disruptive change and transforming challenges into opportunities. Examples include social media usage and engagement, organizing survey results, and operational efficiency data trends. This video provides some practical insights into scenario planning.

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