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Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture?

LSA Global

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? But if that organization does not also have a healthy degree of cultural flexibility, they may not survive. Do you have an adaptable enough corporate culture to thrive during times of change? How people think, behave, and work matters.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

To overcome inertia, businesses should foster a culture of innovation by creating space for employees to challenge the status quo and propose new ideas. A culture of collaboration and accountability might be nurtured by creating a bonus-pool that is distributed equally among all employees rather than to a particular individual or department.

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How to Leverage Change Friction to Change Behaviors at Work

LSA Global

We know from change management simulation data that change resistance manifests in various forms, ranging from entrenched habits and routines to cultural inertia and structural barriers. New strategies and changes must go through your culture and your people to be successfully implemented. When things are farther away from us (e.g.,

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Agile Development’s Biggest Failure Point—and How to Fix It

BCG

Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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