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.
Mills Scofield
DECEMBER 5, 2014
This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. While historically easier said than done, the work this company did to increase certainty and decrease risk in new product development is increasingly feasible.
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.
Your Voice of Encouragement
MAY 14, 2010
Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. We're beginning to see, however, that multi-tasking is not necessarily the ideal work style that it's been thought to be.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
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. Develop personal, habitual agility. Instead, it led to more collaborative ways of developing hypotheses, better results, and greater confidence.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
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.
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.
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