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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

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. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

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? Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." While the definition of agile is still very broad, at the core are values of flexibility, individual interaction, focus on outputs, and collaboration over more rigid planning-driven approaches.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

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.