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How Agile Managers Use Uncertainty to Create Better Decisions Faster

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do. Agile teams don't assume they make a final product the first time out.

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Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Practices

LSA Global

A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. Change management consulting experts define agility as the capacity of an organization to anticipate, respond to, and capitalize on internal and external changes.

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Finite Attention Spans and Employee Agility Driving Corporate Training Trends

Clarity Consultants

Continuous Learning = An Agile Workforce LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report looked at the factors most important to job seekers when evaluating a new career opportunity. When viewed in the context of an unstable or uncertain job market, continuous learning is essential to creating and maintaining an agile workforce and operations.

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Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency

Brimstone Consulting

The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. Working with the technology organization leadership, Brimstone designed a comprehensive, integrated approach to create context-specific solutions for the organization.

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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption

Brimstone Consulting

Agile strategy can transform your organization. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success. Agile Strategy. The bridge from strategy to execution often fails due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Agile strategy is fast, flexible, and time competitive.

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Want Business Agility? Use These Seven Innovation Principles

Johanna Rothman

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Instead of optimizing for a team's agility, we can encourage management agility with flow efficiency.

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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption

Brimstone Consulting

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success. Agile Strategy. The bridge from strategy to execution often fails due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Lack of engagement.

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