LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In behavioral economics, change friction refers to factors or obstacles that increases the effort or time required for individuals to make a decision or complete a task. They can introduce agile methodologies, flatten hierarchies, and foster cross-functional collaboration to break down silos. What Is Change Friction?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive. References: Amrollahi, A., & & Rowlands, B.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. At the speaker's dinner, I sat across the table from someone who said he focused on the problems of the portfolio and management in agile transformations. Maybe I could learn something.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Enhanced Organizational Agility If there’s one thing that the pandemic showed us, it’s that adapting to changing market dynamics is essential. Remaining agile, innovative, and competitive in a rapidly changing business landscape can make a world of difference. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Strategies to Enhance Change Readiness Organizations can enhance their change readiness by: Encouraging Continuous Learning: Providing learning and development opportunities helps teams stay agile. References Graham, J., Tailored training programs can equip employees with the necessary tools to adapt. Woodmass, K., Bailey, Q.,

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So many of the rules/suggestions/laws in The Mythical Man-Month refer to the lessons Brooks learned in the 1960s. Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3]. References Harrin, E.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams. Let’s change how we refer to people. At minimum, everyone’s work has a customer of some sort. That means everyone is part of a team, and that includes managers. Not just technical teams, but management teams.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That's another form of centralization and what organizations refer to as economies of scale. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) If you're part of a team, read Create Your Successful Agile Project or the Project Lifecycles book.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed. References: Blanchard, K. How strong are the follower's demonstrated or transferable task knowledge and skills? Cook Publishing Company.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). References. Big data provides organisations with the potential to achieve competitive advantage.

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LSA Global

JULY 11, 2023

Encourage and Reinforce Desired Behaviors Psychologically, positive reinforcement refers to rewarding and reinforcing desirable behavior to increase the likelihood that the desired behavior will be repeated in the future. Remember, you are asking people to forge new ways of working that require creating new neural paths.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Never refer to a human as a resource. Never refer to a person or people as an FTE (Full Time Equivalent). Never refer to a person or people as an FTE (Full Time Equivalent). I do this in agile organizations as a matter of course.). “Resource” is a mechanistic term. In addition, see the flow efficiency series.

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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 References Clark, T. Gerpott et al. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler. Edmondson, A.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The business world is often referred to as a brutal battlefield where only the fittest survive. Companies like Kodak and Nokia are often referred to as the dinosaurs that failed to adapt to the changing environment. By adopting an agile work culture, organizations can focus on training, collaboration and constant improvement.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

Hmm, I might need to write a post about supposedly agile teams and their costs to fix defects.). Notice that the origin is bugaboo or bugbear, referring to monsters. When managers focus on dates and features, they ignore the effect on defects and the actual cost to release. The initial cost to release might be low.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In other words, organizational structure refers to how an organization arranges its employees and tasks so that their work can be performed and achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. A team-based structure is one in which a group of employees works together as a team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But if employees have long been valued and rewarded for behaviors such as practicality, consistency, self-reliance, and prudence, why wouldn’t they find it uncomfortable to suddenly embrace behaviors such as innovation, agility, collaboration, and boldness? amriphoto/Getty Images. Innovative. Collaborative.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The cloud – which refers to storing, managing, and processing data via a network of remote servers instead of locally on a server or personal computer – is quickly becoming a critical source for innovation. Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For reference, an NPS of +50 is considered very good. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. Yes, a customer who gives a low rating doesn’t like you. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

This kind of challenge is often referred to as “repairing the airplane while you’re flying it.” At the other end of the spectrum, companies can first focus on removing the structural hurdles that prevent them from moving with speed and agility over the long run. Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. Applying a phase-gate process can help you address this issue. Retrieved from: [link]

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

These verbs all refer to a state of existence—not an action. .” Think “do-be-do” (Or, go listen to Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night. With any luck, I made the link to start where he starts to sing that phrase. If not, go to approximately 2:17). I call them existential verbs.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. References: Ahrend, G., Culture is acutely critical during notable change, such as M&A, and executive leaders increasingly work with and lead multicultural teams. Diamond, F., & & Webber, P.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

The front office refers to the customer-facing section of a firm. Breaking down backlogs with back-office accuracy and speed – Here’s how an agile team cleared a health insurer’s report backlog in record time. What is the front office?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Some change management consultants prepare organisations to transform the way they do things in order to become more efficient and effective versions of themselves – for example, Agile Coaches and Lean Consultants. References. Disney Accelerator ) or acquiring innovative start-ups through corporate venture capital (e.g. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Some change management consultants prepare organisations to transform the way they do things in order to become more efficient and effective versions of themselves – for example, Agile Coaches and Lean Consultants. References. Disney Accelerator ) or acquiring innovative start-ups through corporate venture capital (e.g. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics). After the neurological admission in 2016, Ash was referred to the Agile Psychological Medicine Clinic. This would require building a feedback loop in the treatment process to ensure the system could adapt and change.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In the Agile 20xx conferences, that section is called “Information for the Program Committee” or some wording like that. If I think I'll run out of time in the session, write a blog post or article and refer to that content in the session. You're not quite done yet. Complete the Other Parts of the Proposal.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas. Because of the uncertainty over outcomes (and customer reaction), what is to be built, and the cost of change, investments in the top two quadrants are more suited to agile approaches (such as scrum) for software development.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

By deep work, we mean the term coined by Cal Newport, as per his definition deep work refers to: “Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. This resulted in a crippled residue of productive time and dramatically shortened opportunities for deep work.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Digital thread refers to the sharing of product lifecycle data up and down the extended supply chain via a communication framework. It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. References. Digital thread. Profozich, Gregg. Retrieved from: [link] . Richardson, Mike.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

and Create Your Successful Agile Project.) Each of the colored boxes refers to a different feature set. I am sure I'm not the only person who's seen this problem in agile teams, especially when they use Scrum. Let's imagine we have a product goal for the next release of our whiz-bang product. (I

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