The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. From our unique position looking across the whole thought leadership landscape, we believe there are some key trends that will help to shape 2021.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. If you want people to work remotely for weather or health event, they need high bandwidth access in their homes. If people have a weather event such as snow, they need time to shovel.

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1 to 1

JULY 2, 2013

1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Steve Kraus, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Pegasystems about the key themes that emerged from the PegaWORLD 2013 event, including the need for companies to become more agile and flexible in their approach to delivering on what customers are looking for. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. We create policies because some event(s) occurred in the past. Those events created problems for someone or many someones. However, too often, policies create rigidity, not resilience.

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1 to 1

JUNE 9, 2021

Do you think retailers will be able to maintain the agility that they demonstrated in 2020? Not agility. And what this worldwide event has done is completely flipped that on its ear, that those retailers who are able to be most agile are those who are able to maintain relevance in consumers’ lives.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Cultural agility is vital because, with over 60 global society cultures identified and numerous variations in regions within the national cultures, it is virtually impossible to be experienced in every situation. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Tell Stories.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Risk management being an integral part of project management involves predicting all possible risk-bearing events and planning responses to them. In this case, these events won’t ruin the workflow and there will be no risks for delaying the delivery of the product and/or spending extra costs. Effective risk management.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. They don't have a program manager (as in Agile and Lean Program Management ). And, because there was a specific marketing event, the managers wanted the teams to complete the work in about six months.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. The faster we learn, the more often we can link the decision to the actual events and decisions that might have created those events. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Lack of Agility Not even the most well researched and well-designed strategies can predict all the events that could hinder strategy execution. But there seems to be little recognition for other factors such as agility and teamwork.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2022

As companies and strategies become more complex, leaders often need to start collaborating and integrating more to achieve the benefits of both agility and scale. Intraday feedback allows that person to ride the adrenaline rush of the event a lot longer. Be specific.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

Lasting organizational change is a process that must be respected, not an event that can be forced quickly upon people. The Bottom Line Companies that excel at embracing new ways of working are agile enough to face new challenges and open enough to take advantage of new opportunities. Don’t expect that change will happen overnight.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This tendency can have significant consequences in a workplace reliant on knowledge sharing and interpersonal communication for organizational agility, underscoring the heightened importance of fostering psychological safety (Edmondson, 2018). “A Gerpott et al.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2021

The strong agility for workforce changes that most businesses developed during the pandemic will help them respond to similar future crisis if crisis-led learnings and practices are preserved in their organisations. Endnotes 1. 2021 Gartner Hybrid Work Employee Survey, Gartner, Aug.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2021

With no time for planning, we were forced to innovate, to be agile , and be more human. The organization is now looking at the office and company events as a way to bring employees, and their families, together. When it comes to the way forward, there is no “right” path. As the COVID-19 crisis enveloped the globe, Eric J.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Conduct a retrospective with a timeline of events and how people felt at the time those events occurred. The events are on the top. Those lines are how people experienced the exact same events. This image is a timeline from a real retrospective I facilitated many years ago. The customers loved the product.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

What you make of events is more important than the events themselves. For many of us, though, holding steady really means slipping—as we ignore the threat of competition from younger, more agile innovators, bypass opportunities for greater reward, and sacrifice personal growth.” Don’t wait for a catalyst.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Analogously, the business environment is composed of firms and individuals who compete for limited customer dollars and investment capital and endure a continuously changing landscape resulting from economic, social and political events occurring in the background. Don’t aspire to be perfect – No organism is the perfect creation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

While nimble startups chasing the next trend are exciting, the truth is that companies rarely succeed by adapting to market events. That can’t be done through agility alone, but takes years of preparation to achieve. One company that’s become famous for its agility is Google. Agility is overrated.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). Some projects —even when people can plan for an entire quarter's worth of product—require frequent kaizen or retrospective events. I've focused this series on product feedback loops, not project feedback loops.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Business, operations, and HR leaders may be focused on longer term, complex roadmaps for non-technology changes, such as agile and DevSecOps teams development, digital talent, and program and project governance that require deep connections across business.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They aspire to teach abstract concepts to their employees, such as “agility,” “collaboration,” and “coaching.” Organizations need to retool learning, changing it from an obsession on individually focused and content-driven events to learning that is deeply contextual, social, and embedded into real work.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 25, 2014

Recently I worked with 6300 leaders of AT&T in a series of events and as any organization working towards a 2020 vision of enhanced customer service, increased agility and competitive advantage the one common solution is through the people.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Reddy’s employees be proactive with their customer requests and solve any problems in an agile way. At the internal launch event, Dr. Reddy’s employees learned about their purpose and were invited to be part of realizing it.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

So, in the event that this question has not yet been brought to the discussion agenda with your team… Imagine waking up to… realize that a popular TV show used your product for the plot line of a beautifully crafted story, whereby one of their most beloved characters dies. Well done, Crock-Pot! What if this happened to you?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 16, 2021

Consider a short kaizen event to understand why the work is large. If the work is large and ranked lower than everything else, maybe stop the larger work and finish all the other work. Then mob on this larger piece. However, the team knows now that they can act. The duration doesn't get even longer before the team acts. What About the Data?

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. The variability and unpredictability of events are too high for rigid directives. Patrick Smith/Getty Images. It’s for techies.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 25, 2018

On one hand we have major challenges with world and local events (politics, traumatic events) – on the other we have major progress being made with movements led by change makers (diversity, equality, protection laws). There’s no question we are living and working in head spinning times.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2017

strategy can anticipate every future event. Too much oversight from top leaders can deteriorate into micromanagement and, in this way, suppress the kind of agility and cross-functional coordination needed for success. However, there are times when flexibility is needed in order to adjust to new and changing market demands.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

See the roadmap series starting with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 3, Flow-Based Roadmapping to see how to integration options into your various roadmaps. In addition, the lower your WIP needs to be, so you can complete something useful before external events force you to change. (I And the smaller your stories.)

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