Engaging Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Third, train the entire organization and ramp up a motivation campaign. Develop personal, habitual agility.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 5, 2014
How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? As an 11-time champion, says Jackson, he was always looking for “what creates the bonds” between players that can meaningfully separate them from their competition.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2017
While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Go and See.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2012
CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2015
Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.
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