ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

This reading was in anticipation of an Agile Facilitation training my executive team and I are going through next week, as part of Return Path’s Agile Everywhere initiative. Sutherland gets credit for creating the agile framework and bringing the concept scrum to software development over 20 years ago.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. Next, use theoretical frameworks and logic to structure the problem by decomposing it into all possible solutions.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

In order to grow, startups need a much more focused, realistic and agile approach to goal setting that builds momentum and establishes a pattern of success. For startups, agility is a must. The problem is, by setting outrageously lofty, long-term and immeasurable goals, the satisfaction of that carrot often never materializes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With Nicole’s first-hand experiences and insights, we explored how this Fractional CMO trend is not just a fleeting fad but a strategic maneuver that’s reshaping the contours of business leadership in today’s dynamic landscape. John Jantsch (07:01): Do you work from a framework? And what makes it work is it has scope.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. In our age of disruption, you must be agile and courageous. Hint: That should be all companies.)

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Nonprofit boards that are performing marginally will find it difficult to attract and retain quality talent for the board and executive leadership positions. Over time, your board will find that it’s challenging to accomplish what it needs to, and board performance will surely suffer.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Classic innovation frameworks and IT-centric team composition are not going to get it done. Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. The end result is a framework with 3 columns and 6 layers as depicted in image 1.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

In other words, we can learn, build and measure at any stage because the lean process shapes a malleable framework that integrates iterative and incremental progress at its core. Lean scholars recognize the plethora of business and managerial frameworks available for entrepreneurs, such as agile, waterfall, and lean.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The vast majority of recent innovation research has focused on entrepreneurs: why are they more innovative and agile than larger organizations? We have formalized the entrepreneurial approach into frameworks like “lean start-up” or “design thinking” with the goal of implementing it beyond start-ups. Entrepreneurs. Conclusion.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

A brand marketer on my leadership team years ago referred to it somewhat derisively as a “tweener” function, one of those things that’s not quite marketing and not quite product. And she believes in Agile Marketing , which is always a plus in my book (and I find rare in marketers). It’s a glue function.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Then there is Agile for engineering. Then there is Agile for engineering. Why build a framework? And really the list is too long.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many have fine-tuned frameworks with a high level of sophistication. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Leverage the innate agility. A Practical Solution for Medium Sized Companies to Grow. The 80/20 Solution for the MisFortune 10,000. The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. That lowers risk.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. Which is better – themes or frameworks?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Can I blend frameworks? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. They may know frameworks, like Design Thinking or Agile, and a few tools, but very few have the extensive training and experience at hands-on facilitation required to make a difference.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

In this post let me share with you a common sense framework I use in my consulting engagements to figure out a home for web analysts. The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1. What do you think I am missing in my four pronged framework? Everyone wins.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The good news is that when you arm yourself with an arsenal of turnaround frameworks, you can face these roadblocks and get past them so you can move onto the next stage. For RBOs during prospecting, deploy a simple but powerful three-step framework: 1. Acknowledge and relate to the objection.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 22, 2019

Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Framework training is useful, but you can get into the weeds and get killed if you don’t have other fundamentals sorted out. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Charan’s framework for success in a crazy world full of digital and other disruption is this: Perceptual acuity (I am still not 100% sure what this means). Skill in making the organization steerable and agile. A mindset to see opportunity in uncertainty. A mindset to see opportunity in uncertainty.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 15, 2019

It’s worth noting that Improv is “framework neutral.” ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. All those frameworks have imaginative holes that Improv games fill. People always say “get out of the box” This is How!

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Or why, in an entirely different industry, did German software giant SAP blow up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replace it with small teams? It’s how companies become agile. What balance of central authority and peripheral autonomy works in such a logistically complex organization?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This meeting was a biannual gathering of all the leadership involved in the corporate-wide initiatives to out-innovate their new disruptors. It was a testament to John and Avika’s leadership that even off duty people were passionately debating how to solve these problems. Give the Topic Areas a Common Framework.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So you could still be agile and respond. And so I think it's just like an easy construct that people can really wrap their heads around, even if they know nothing about branding or marketing, I just kind of give that to them as a, as a framework. Because usually if there's a change in leadership, there's a need for that change.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

So you could still be agile and respond. I just kind of give that to them as a, as a framework. Because usually if there's a change in leadership, there's a need for that change. So if you're always thinking in the realm of that, you have kind of those three facets of the brand, it really dimensionalizes it.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Deliberate concept blends, combinations, are not a defined part of existing innovation frameworks. Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and older frameworks like CPS (aka Osborn-Parnes) are all attempts to find the system, the process steps, that will assist in repeating innovation.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

Happy Hacking The kickoff started Friday afternoon, during which Daimler leadership gave some context behind the hackathon. The goal for hackathon participants is to create a solution to increase the speed and efficiency of DTNA technicians in order to get their customers’ trucks back on the road as fast as possible.

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