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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

When employees have less distractions at work, it increases their productivity and performance, resulting in a better profitability for the organization. With the lack of an office environment, employees working alone could have a sense of isolation, which might lead to low productivity.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 3 – Cloud)

Tom Spencer

Productivity: IT teams can allocate their time to more important business tasks, rather than time-consuming IT management chores essential for on-site data centers. The rise of insurtech has introduced a host of startups to the market, small companies built on digital agility that bring new perspectives to the business of insurance.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 1 – Artificial Intelligence)

Tom Spencer

So with customers expecting more personalized, agile, and on-demand delivery, insurers are now racing to keep pace and deliver more relevant solutions for a changing user landscape. This speed and agility allows the insurance industry to match stride with would be disruptors in the digital age. Inability to attract new customers.

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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change. Image: Pexels. References. Rutledge,R., Marshall.L.,

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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)

Tom Spencer

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change. Image: Pexels. References. Rutledge,R., Marshall.L.,