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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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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

In nearly all cases, the ideas for these changes stemmed from some vision of greatness for the health and prosperity of the company or nonprofit. Strategies to Enhance Change Readiness Organizations can enhance their change readiness by: Encouraging Continuous Learning: Providing learning and development opportunities helps teams stay agile.

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Thinking on your Feet|Women In Consulting Blog

Women in Consulting

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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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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Why the Rewards for Ambitious Problem Solving Are About to Get Bigger

Harvard Business

In recent years, we’ve come to associate the practice of innovation with speed and agility, but accomplishments that truly move the needle can’t be achieved quickly or through mere iteration. One reason for the emphasis on agility and iteration in recent decades is that technology has been fairly stable. .

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Assymetry versus Strategic Funding

The Nonprofit Consultant

As I wrote in my comment on Tom's blog, I love the concept that being small and agile is a competitive advantage in the corporate world. Unfortunately, in the nonprofit world, we tend to be behind the curve in these types of trends. Tags: competition assymetry Nonprofit mergers management business.

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Is Your Employee Ready to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business

Perhaps this person volunteers and recently ran a campaign for a nonprofit. Erick Tai, head of engineering and co-founder at Reflektive, the San Francisco-based agile performance management software company, says he tries to gauge his employees’ interest in management on their very first day on the job.