Agility Innovation Leadership Time to Market 
Engaging Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them?
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 9, 2013
When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2013
Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. There is no time for complacency. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2015
How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2015
In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.
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