Podcasts about agile strategy

BONUS: Keeping Backlogs Lean With The Now-Next-Later-Never Roadmap Framework with Kent McDonald In this BONUS episode, we explore the art of backlog management with product management expert Kent McDonald. As someone with decades of experience in software product development, Kent shares practical strategies for keeping backlogs lean, meaningful, and focused on outcomes that truly matter. Learn how to escape the trap of bloated backlogs and implement a Now-Next-Later-Never approach that will transform your product management practice. The Problem with Bloated Backlogs "Some teams use backlogs as 'long term storage' devices." Product backlogs often become unwieldy and difficult to manage because teams view them as a permanent repository for every idea that comes along. Kent explains that this "storage mentality" is one of the primary reasons backlogs grow out of control. Another common mistake is diving in too early and splitting items before they're actually ready to be worked on, which multiplies the backlog size unnecessarily. These practices lead to confusion, lost focus, and ultimately decrease a team's ability to deliver value efficiently. The Now-Next-Later-Never Roadmap Framework "You want to group things together on roughly categories of when you will attack it." Kent walks us through the practical implementation of a Now-Next-Later-Never roadmap approach that keeps things manageable. This framework provides a simple but powerful way to organize initiatives based on their priority and timing. Instead of maintaining an endless list of requirements, teams can group work into these four buckets, making it easier to communicate priorities both internally and with stakeholders. Kent emphasizes that these roadmap items should be described in terms of outcomes rather than features, helping everyone stay focused on the value being delivered rather than specific implementations. For more on the origin of the Now-Next-Later roadmap practice, see this article by Janna Bastow. Making "Now" Work in Practice "We only split items in the 'now' column." When implementing the Now-Next-Later-Never approach, the "Now" column is where the magic happens. Kent advises: Only split items that are in the "Now" column into actionable tasks Express roadmap items in terms of outcomes or customer problems to solve Limit the number of items in the "Now" column to maintain focus List outcomes rather than detailed features to avoid having a large number of items Kent explains that the "Later" and "Never" columns serve an important purpose in setting expectations with stakeholders about what won't be worked on immediately or at all. Managing the Movement Between Roadmap Categories "Items can move back and forth, to facilitate expectation setting." The Now-Next-Later-Never roadmap isn't static. Kent provides practical advice on how to manage the flow of items between categories: Revisit the roadmap regularly, ideally monthly Consider reviewing the roadmap during sprint review sessions Use this format when communicating with stakeholders for clearer expectation setting Hold strong on the "Now" items to maintain focus and avoid constant reprioritization This approach creates a dynamic but controlled environment where priorities can evolve without creating chaos or confusion. Dealing with Backlog Bloat "Create a 'museum', a set of items you can look at, but don't look at every day." For teams struggling with already-bloated backlogs, Kent offers bold but effective advice: Create a "museum" for items you want to preserve but don't need to see daily Consider deleting your old backlog and starting fresh Begin by asking: "What are the main outcomes we're trying to achieve?" Focus on getting to a smaller set of bigger items, then sequence them appropriately These approaches help teams overcome the fear of "losing" work while refocusing on what truly matters. Maintaining a Lean Backlog "Backlog items don't age well." Kent's team maintains an impressively lean backlog of just 23 items across three brand websites. He shares the routines and guardrails that prevent backlog bloat from creeping back in: Create a filter to control what gets into the backlog in the first place Keep the Product Owner just slightly ahead of the development team Avoid the anti-pattern of trying to keep all developers busy all the time Remember that backlog items don't age well and lose relevance over time These practices ensure the team stays focused on delivering current value rather than managing an ever-growing list of aging requirements. About Kent McDonald With decades in software product development, Kent is a go-to expert in product management, and agile strategy. He is a seasoned consultant and author of three books on agility, he helps teams cut through clutter to focus on what truly matters. When not optimizing workflows, he's exploring National Parks (52/63) or grooving to some jazz tunes. You can link with Kent McDonald on LinkedIn, or follow Kent McDonaldn on Substack.

Let us know how we're doing - text us feedback or thoughts on episode contentPaul reflects a bit on having just completed the second year of hosting Eight Minutes, and takes a moment to indulge in how the process of developing climate strategy needs to change if we are to keep up with the rapid advances in climate industries. Long term strategic planning may need to be replaced by "agile" strategic processes.For more research:"CCUS Market Outlook 2023: Announced Capacity Soars by 50%" - Bloomberg New Energy FinanceFollow Paul on LinkedIn.

Fundamental Supersize Business Strategy #49: Agile Strategy! Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective: https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness #supersizeyourbusiness #fundamentalsupersizebusinessstrategy #agilestrategy

What's SHE Up To Now Day 2438? Communication Growth, Your Definition, And Agile Strategy! Drop in to get the real scoop--the good, the bad, the ugly, the truth (well my truth anyway). https://facebook.com/beme2thrive #contributiongrowth #foundationalsupersizebusinessstrategy #GROWINGprocess #agilestrategy

Fundamental Supersize Business Strategy #49: Agile Strategy! Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective: https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness #supersizeyourbusiness #fundamentalsupersizebusinessstrategy #agilestrategy

In this episode, Randy delves into the intricacies of sales, mental toughness, and the agile strategy essential for every entrepreneur's toolkit. Drawing from influential reads like "177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class" by Steve Siebold, "9 Figure Mindset" by Brandon Dawson, and "Objections" by Jeb Blount, Randy offers a unique blend of personal anecdotes and actionable strategies to conquer rejection and harness data-driven decision-making. Join us as we explore the crucial skills needed to navigate the importance of setting measurable objectives and embracing continuous learning. Whether you're grappling with sales objections or seeking to refine your business strategy, Randy's experiences and insights pave the way for transformative growth and resilience in the face of adversity.

As February unfolds, Randy introduces a shift in business strategy, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and responsiveness. Delving into the intricacies of 'Agile Strategy', derived from software development, he explains how this approach fosters structured planning with the flexibility to pivot based on new information and market dynamics. The episode also explores the synergy between 'Agile Strategy' and 'First Principles Thinking', a method of deconstructing complex problems to their foundational elements. The episode concludes with insights into Taylor Welch's 'Success Pyramid', a belief architecture for entrepreneurs.

Minter Dialogue with Marty Neumeier To start off this new year, and just before I get back into the swing of brand new episodes for 2024, I wanted to re-release this wonderful conversation with Marty Neumeier (MDE314). Where so many people are needing to have a sense of belonging and find meaningfulness, working for a meaningful brand is one way to find fulfilment. Marty is a world recognised expert on branding, best-selling author of books such as The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip and MetaSkills. At the time of recording this interview, he had recently published a ‘business thriller' called, "Scramble, How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time." He's also director and CEO of the Liquid branding agency. In this conversation with Marty, we talked about the importance of having a designer mindset in business and the challenge of building a superior brand in today's tech-infused world. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Rayyan Karim: The importance of team design and backlog structure in an Agile adoption process Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. In this episode, Rayyan discusses their experience working with IBM at a Brazilian bank. The teams were facing serious problems with delivery, despite having agreed on a strategy. Rayyan discovered that the root of the problem was organizational design. Although the program consisted of 300 people, the teams were organized functionally, which was hindering their success. Rayyan emphasizes the importance of considering the team's design, the backlog design, and clear measurements of success when implementing Agile. They also stress the importance of addressing beliefs and providing an alternative identity for those who may not be sold on the ideas of agility.  Featured Book for the Week: "System of Profound Knowledge" on Deming's work In this segment, Rayyan recommends the resource "System of Profound Knowledge" about Deming's work to help in understanding the true intent and start of agility. The article explores adaptive systems and helps readers understand the change that is happening in the workplace, as well as what a system is and how leaders think. The article also explains the concept of "tamper."    [IMAGE HERE] Do you wish you had decades of experience? Learn from the Best Scrum Masters In The World, Today! The Tips from the Trenches - Scrum Master edition audiobook includes hours of audio interviews with SM's that have decades of experience: from Mike Cohn to Linda Rising, Christopher Avery, and many more. Super-experienced Scrum Masters share their hard-earned lessons with you. Learn those today, make your teams awesome!     About Rayyan Karim Rayyan is and Agile Coach & Trainer and the founder of Design Your Future with presence in the UK and the UAE. Rayyan is known for supporting leading executives of FTSE100 and NASDAQ corporations to create transformational results quickly. You can link with Rayyan Karim on LinkedIn and connect with Rayyan Karim on Twitter.

Galen Low is joined by Simon Severino—CEO & Founder of Strategy Sprints—to break down the processes behind an agile business and how you can make agile strategy a reality for your own.

Many of us have gotten or had to give tough love over the course of our career but few of us have managed to turn it into our own business venture. Today we're talking to Lindsay Waugh, James Fisher and Julie Sheldon of the newly formed strategy collective, Tough Love on How Tough Love Fuels Agile Strategy. Enjoy!

Mit Mario André Brückner unterhalte ich mich über Living Strategy, die auf Ideen des Design Thinking, Scrum und des Inviting Leadership basiert.

We have Stephen Bungay as a guest in this episode! Stephen has been a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group for many years and has been working with many big clients like the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. We talk about what strategy is and the difference between mission, vision and strategy. We ask for some good examples and we also talk about strategies connected to OKRs.   Thanks to www.crisp.se!

Zu Gast in dieser Episode ist Sebastian Ley. Seit 16 Jahre arbeite Sebastian als Unternehmensberater. Zuletzt als Partner bei Porsche Consulting. Im ersten Teil der Folge fragen wir, warum Organisationen heutzutage einen Purpose benötigen und welche Auswirkungen er auf die Innovationsfähigkeit hat. Im zweiten Teil schauen wir uns an, wie etablierte Unternehmen eine Purpose erarbeiten können und wie wichtig dabei die Partizipation der Innovationsverantwortlichen ist. Am Ende der Folge erfahrt ihr wie der Purpose durch Geschichten erzählt und geteilt werden kann, damit er kein Papiertiger bleibt, sondern im alltäglichen Handel jedes Mitarbeitenden sicht-bar wird. Kontaktiert Sebastian auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-ley-581a883b/ Erstelle dir deinen eigenen Trendradar im Trendmanager: https://www.trendmanager.com/de/testen/ Werdet Teil unserer Trendone Business Familie https://www.trendone.com/karriere Die Host: Peter von Aspern https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-von-aspern Sebastian Metzner https:/www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianmetzner Sendet uns gern eine Whatsapp Sprachnachricht an: +49 172 67 82 736 Schreibt uns Feedback per Mail an: podcast@trendone.com

This week on the If You Market podcast we talk with Simon Severino about agile strategy and how it can double companies revenues in 90 days. Simon presents 3 critical levers that can be focused on to take prospects from "we don't know you" to working with you faster than ever. Simon Severino is a speaker, author, business coach and father of 3, and Austrian (he's not Austrian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Montgomery is the founder of Agile Strategies, a boutique OKRs firm, and the author of Start Less Finish More.Dan states the old strategic planning model of predicting and then controlling needs to give way to sensing and responding, and he calls that agile strategy.In this conversation, he hit on many fascinating concepts:limitations of The Balanced Scorecardexecuting vs formulating strategythe retreat to cozy mental modelsthe fit between OKRs and agile strategy multicausal systemsminimal viable strategiesSTEEP frameworkPlatonic valuesCynefin framework

Peter Beaudoin discussed with Liz Nilsen how Strategic Doing can be used to support the Alberta innovation ecosystem For the transcription of this episode please visit: https://www.rainforestab.ca/yyc-blog/podcast-episode-145-transcription Thank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by Rainforest Alberta. The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta. Host: Peter Beaudoin Peter manages strategy and partnerships for an innovative alliance of energy companies committed to reducing environmental impacts through collaborative R&D efforts. Peter worked for more than 20 years in Asia building and investing in a variety of businesses. His most recent role outside of Canada was with the World Wildlife Fund, where he was the Chief Executive Officer of WWF China, based in Beijing. Prior to that, Peter lived in Hong Kong for 15 years working in the technology industry. Guest: Liz Nilsen is associate director at the Agile Strategy Lab at the University of North Alabama. She guides the growth of Strategic Doing, managing the network of affiliate colleges and universities that are teaching Strategic Doing in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs. She also leads the development of new offerings and oversees the training sequence used with faculty and Strategic Doing practitioners worldwide. Formerly in the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, she has led work in the transformation of engineering education, as well as work with NASA. Prior to coming to Purdue, Liz was part of an initiative to embed innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate engineering education. Under Liz's guidance, 50 university teams from around the United States learned Strategic Doing and used the discipline to launch more than 500 collaborative efforts in under three years. Liz has an extensive university background and began her career in nonprofit management. Please be sure to share this episode with everyone you know. If you are interested in being either a host, a guest, or a sponsor of the show, please reach out. We are published in Google Podcasts and the iTunes store for Apple Podcasts We would be grateful if you could give us a rating as it helps spread the word about the show. Show Quotes: "So the university is in, what's called the Shoals area of Alabama, which is best known for music, actually Aretha Franklin and Rolling Stones and all those other people recorded there." "So the first question is what could we do? So what could we do with the assets we already have at our disposal? We try to get rid of those questions that say, oh, if only we had a million dollars, oh, if only we had, you know, a bunch more people, what can we do with what we already have? That's the first question." Credits... This Episode Sponsored By: Community Now! Magazine Episode Music: Tony Del Degan Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan

How to make your company easier to run and immune to competition using 3 specific CEO habits. Simon Severino is the #1 speaker on agile strategy and agile sales. He is an Author, CEO of Strategy Sprints and Host of the Strategy Sprints podcast. He has interviewed powerhouse entrepreneurs like Rita McGrath, David Allen, Nir Eyal, Perry Marshall, Verne Harnish, Brian Kurtz and hundreds more on business, productivity and growth. He helps business owners in SaaS and Services run their company more effectively which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints™ Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon leads a global team of Certified Strategy Sprints™ Coaches that help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. As a member of SVBS (Silicon Valley Blockchain Society), he enables cross-stage capital flows and helps minimize execution risks in technology startups. His team is trusted by Google, Consilience Ventures, Roche, Amgen, AbbVie and hundreds of frontier teams. He is a TEDx speaker and has appeared on over 500 podcasts. He writes for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine about scaling digital businesses. Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram  

The growing polarization of our society, manifested last week in the riots in the US Capitol - is truly what some people call a "wicked" problem - a term that refers not to any intent, but to an exceptionally complex nature that resists solutions. Rebuilding our civic and political life will require deep and focused conversations. In this episode the director of the Lab, Ed Morrison, reflects on what's changed in our civic life in the last thirty years. The conversation took place the day before the riots, but his ideas can help us put the events in the context of agile strategy from a societal vantage point. You'll also hear a bit about what it all might mean for an issue like the pandemic. 

In today's episode Dirk talks with Kaihan Krippendorff, Founder of Outthinker Strategy Network. One of the great strategy thinkers of our time, Kaihan Krippendorff outlines how leaders must adapt their strategic thinking and planning in times of crisis. At the heart of our conversation, Kaihan provides several frameworks for leaders to decide when it's appropriate to pull back, and when to advance. He breaks down the questions, frame of reference, and the tactical steps we all can take to come out of crises stronger than we went in. *Note there are parts of the discussion interrupted by the cell connection. Hang in there… Kaihan's wisdom is worth it! Among the topics explored by Dirk and Kaihan: • How innovative strategies emerge • How strategy differs in times of crisis versus “normal” times • Three immediate questions and actions to begin your strategic planning in crises • Why its a good idea to start all strategy sessions with the “mess”discussion” • Why now is the time to be listening to your employees (hint, they have the ideas that will create your future) Information On Referenced Topics: Kaihan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaihankrippendorff/ Outthinker: https://outthinker.com Kaihan speaking site: https://kaihan.net Driving Innovation From Within: https://kaihan.net/driving-innovation-from-within-book/ Thirty-Six Stratagems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems UnleashWD: www.unleashwd.com

Gidion Peters is the co-founder of the Dutch training & consultancy company Organize Agile specialized in organizational change, agile transformation, business agility and Agile HR. They serve their clients; wide-ranging and including Fortune 500 retail, finance, pharma, telecommunications and engineering organizations as well as the public sector. Their offices are located in New York and The Netherlands. Gidion defines himself as an 'Organizational change specialist and entrepreneur' with a focus on applying Agile and Scrum outside of IT. He leads and consults on Agile transformations worldwide and frequently speak and publish on topics like Agile HR, Agile Portfolio Management, Agile Auditing, Agile Strategy and Agile Marketing & Sales. He is the co-author of books Agile HR – the (un)missable role of HR in agile organizations, nominated for Management Book of the Year 2018, and Scrum in Actie (2015). In collaboration with HU University of Applied Sciences, Gidion and Organize Agile also published The 1st International State of Agile HR 2020, an overview of innovative practitioners of Agile HR across the globe. He believes that everyone can be a changemaker, stable teams are the engine of innovation and the future belongs to flexible organizations. In this episode, we discuss a cultural values map, which you can find here: Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world Social Links: LinkedIn: @GidionPeters Twitter: @gidionpeters

Strategy is something you do once a year, right? Wrong! In this episode, we unpack what it means to have an agile strategy process and discuss how it benefits leaders and organizations. Specifically, we address:  Why might traditional ("waterfall") strategic planning be problematic? Why you should consider an agile strategy process How to make the pivot and implications for leaders and organizations Links and Other Information All episodes of The Agility Conversation: Click here 

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Jeremy Brown about agile strategy and emerging opportunities during the pandemic. See the video here: https://youtu.be/DviJgxrQ9lk. Jeremy Brown (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyryanbrown/) is a veteran of strategy development and change management. He is equal parts introvert, where he totally digs analyzing complex data to spot patterns – and extrovert, where he would enjoy a day at an executive offsite facilitating strategy decisions and team alignment. One of his biggest challenges in life was finding something that equally balanced both sides – you know, getting a little high off of the extroverted dopamine, as well as the introverted acetylchlorine. Helping organizations transition to strategic agility is exactly in this sweet spot for Jeremy. After several years working in traditional strategy shops, he became frustrated at the typical lack of execution of the beautifully-designed and well-researched strategies that he helped develop. That led him to start digging into change management, adult learning, behavioral psychology, and agile methodologies – and he slowly began experimenting with these principles in his strategy work to further execution. The result? He loved the results and wanted to take it a step further. Not wanting to be constrained with the limited business model and political challenges of an established consulting company, he launched strategyNow with the mission of supporting his clients transition to an agile strategy approach and achieve 100% ROI of their strategy portfolios. Jeremy also enjoys raising two courageous daughters, traveling, and spending time in the majestic Utah outdoors.

Links: http://strategysprints.com/sales https://www.stagekings.com.au/ This guy is such a sprinter! Fleming and co lost 2.5 million during Corona. Rebuilt his business from scratch in one week! Stagekings and Jeremy Flemings were designing and producing massive structures for Music and Arts Festivals. They pivoted to delivering WFH desks. Now they are pivoting again to deliver furniture for back-to-the office people. Jeremy is an inspiring leader, and a real sprinter. Check out this episode. Get EXCLUSIVE CONTENT and GIVEAWAYS delivered: --►Email Service: [http://bit.ly/2YYRtDT] --►Facebook Group: [http://bit.ly/2KBtoeI] How to stop procrastinating? How to train prioritization skills? Which are the best productivity techniques to prioritize tasks and projects? The STRATEGY SHOW is where entrepreneurs meet to discuss productivity tools, time management techniques and growth hacking with the most fascinating lead generation companies and their champions in marketing strategies, time to market and customer experience. Your host, Simon Severino - [http://www.strategysprints.com] --- ▼ NEW AT STRATEGY SHOW? WATCH THESE: ▷ How to increase Focus, Freedom and Flow - The Strategy Sprint - [https://youtu.be/66mDK8bjaVo] ▷ GTD: Smart Project Management Techniques – David Allen & Simon Severino - [https://youtu.be/ipP0FmQVuXM] ▷ The Sprint Mindset with Douglas Ferguson - Simon Severino | STRATEGY SHOW [https://youtu.be/vv52ibLxRzs] ▼ FOR MORE EUREKA MOMENTS: Find out more about STRATEGY SHOW and receive free weekly tips & tools from successful experts about how to transform your business model, increase productivity and initiate change ▷ GET your FREE sales audit (an 800€ value) - [https://www.strategysprints.com/sales] ▷ SUBSCRIBE to our channel - [https://bit.ly/2Np2G9S] ▷ Newsletter & free tools - [https://www.strategysprints.com/tools] ▷ Podcast - [https://bit.ly/2FZ4YbX] ▷ Website - [https://strategysprints.com/] ▷ Online forum – where game changers help each other grow - [https://www.strategysprints.com/products/strategy-forum] ▼ STRATEGY SHOW The STRATEGY SHOW discovers how successful game changers develop their business strategy and create positive change. Find out what they are currently creating - [https://bit.ly/2Np2G9S] Want to know more about our team & services? Contact us! [welcome@strategysprints.com] Music: Dixxy - afternoon bike ride

Links: http://strategysprints.com/sales https://www.stagekings.com.au/ This guy is such a sprinter! Fleming and co lost 2.5 million during Corona. Rebuilt his business from scratch in one week! Stagekings and Jeremy Flemings were designing and producing massive structures for Music and Arts Festivals. They pivoted to delivering WFH desks. Now they are pivoting again to deliver furniture for back-to-the office people. Jeremy is an inspiring leader, and a real sprinter. Check out this episode. Get EXCLUSIVE CONTENT and GIVEAWAYS delivered: --►Email Service: [http://bit.ly/2YYRtDT] --►Facebook Group: [http://bit.ly/2KBtoeI] How to stop procrastinating? How to train prioritization skills? Which are the best productivity techniques to prioritize tasks and projects? The STRATEGY SHOW is where entrepreneurs meet to discuss productivity tools, time management techniques and growth hacking with the most fascinating lead generation companies and their champions in marketing strategies, time to market and customer experience. Your host, Simon Severino - [http://www.strategysprints.com] --- ▼ NEW AT STRATEGY SHOW? WATCH THESE: ▷ How to increase Focus, Freedom and Flow - The Strategy Sprint - [https://youtu.be/66mDK8bjaVo] ▷ GTD: Smart Project Management Techniques – David Allen & Simon Severino - [https://youtu.be/ipP0FmQVuXM] ▷ The Sprint Mindset with Douglas Ferguson - Simon Severino | STRATEGY SHOW [https://youtu.be/vv52ibLxRzs] ▼ FOR MORE EUREKA MOMENTS: Find out more about STRATEGY SHOW and receive free weekly tips & tools from successful experts about how to transform your business model, increase productivity and initiate change ▷ GET your FREE sales audit (an 800€ value) - [https://www.strategysprints.com/sales] ▷ SUBSCRIBE to our channel - [https://bit.ly/2Np2G9S] ▷ Newsletter & free tools - [https://www.strategysprints.com/tools] ▷ Podcast - [https://bit.ly/2FZ4YbX] ▷ Website - [https://strategysprints.com/] ▷ Online forum – where game changers help each other grow - [https://www.strategysprints.com/products/strategy-forum] ▼ STRATEGY SHOW The STRATEGY SHOW discovers how successful game changers develop their business strategy and create positive change. Find out what they are currently creating - [https://bit.ly/2Np2G9S] Want to know more about our team & services? Contact us! [welcome@strategysprints.com] Music: Dixxy - afternoon bike ride

Today on Insights Inside, I discuss agile strategies and “the new normal” with David Ward, Group Sales and Marketing Director at Irwin Mitchell. Find out how they’ve flexed their operating model so quickly, and how they’ve maintained their “people culture” in this new digital world.

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Great negotiators are like great athletes in at least one respect: they’re keenly in the moment but at the same time they also see the big picture. Better than their competition, they know how to change the game in their favor. Today Andy Wasynczuk joins us for another episode. Andy’s been teaching negotiation at the … Continue reading 14. Agile Strategy and Negotiation Success →

This podcast covers Chapter 12, “Small Steps To An Agile Strategy” of “12 Steps to Flow: The New Framework for Business Agility,” by Haydn Shaughnessy and Fin Goulding, developers of the internationally acclaimed workshop, Flow Academy. The authors start the chapter by stating a good Flow workplace is one that challenges the idea of big strategy and grand plans. The new method is to build strategy from small steps. How to achieve that will be covered in this chapter. The first problem pointed out is that the core elements that people focus on in strategy and planning are necessary but nowhere near sufficient for success. This necessary-but-not-sufficient problem is typical of the digital world. Many intangible factors, often intangible, have a significant influence but are difficult for traditional strategist to grasp. An old style of marketing is used, e.g., "Build the platform and market the hell out of it." The key problem is the platform is seen as a technology stack rather than a relationship nexus. So why are the issues associated with platforms so interesting to the Flow frame-of-mind? First, platforms invented modern agility, providing the ability to roam into any space choosen with a lot of activity taking place on the network along with having the ability to update with high-frequency and low-cost. Also, products are digital, which means there is no conventional supply chain to manage. Second platforms are almost impossible to plan and this is really critical because execution needs a huge amount of iteration and a commitment to real-time executive direction. For example nobody can say what it will cost to be successful at developing the ecosystem of third-party actors. Consequently, platforms force designers to take small steps. These hundreds of incremental steps requires Flow. Business often gives the impression that there is one big solution, e.g., a new platform, or a single answer to complex problems. This is just wrong. Success in High-Performance Teams In delivery terms, the economy is shifting towards small. Good leaders recognize this and see the critical gains lie in the margins, in the detail. That's why in Flow, work units are only ever a maximum of two days long. These are the micro-units where you can get 1% gains to scale up into something significant. Interestingly enough, incremental changes that scale can apply to strategy as well as to delivery. The short cycle times of two days or less force people to interact more which is good for both productivity and quality. The authors feel this is superior to long planning cycles which can drift away from providing the value required to meet the customer's needs. Small Steps to a Big Platform One problem with setting digital strategy is that many people get the core ideas of agility and scale wrong. With the digital transformation the dominates the agile world companies seek network effects where there is little disruption caused by the platform. The stability or lack of disruption by the platforms is supposedly created through: - open APIs - two-sided or multisided markets - network effects - cloud infrastructure The authors view this is flawed because: 1. Great platforms exist without having an open API 2. The idea of two-sided and multisided markets feel superfluous 3. Network effects are powerful but rare, e.g., Facebook 4. There's nothing special about Cloud services, all companies have access to Cloud infrastructure The real power of platforms lies in the ecosystems that grow around the successful ones. This is a real nightmare for traditional strategists because success lies at the other end of intangible investments in relationships, promotion, content, and likability. Services with no allegiance to the platform can exist on that platform thrive and do well and benefit the platform service at the same time, for example book arbitrage on Amazon services. Customers may pay more after successful in finding what they need. The successful companies are an essential part of the Amazon ecosystem yet Amazon does not prompt, support, or invest in any of them. In fact, they exist because of Amazon's shortcomings. The Very Basic Model for Highly Skilled Business The platform model is deceptively simple having only a few basic components but it would be a big mistake to assume that the basic structure is sufficient. For example there is the App Store for the iPhone. Essentially it is an ordering platform. As a catalog with the transaction engine and fulfillment service. The simplicity, however, is misleading. What's needed are the critical nonessentials in order to be successful in other words, there is all the work required to develop highly skilled relationships, many giveaway tools, wonderful content, and huge advocacy. Without that ecosystem the platform can't survive. It's all about having real relationships. Many companies create platforms without realizing the content and advocacy are key aspects of the project. This means human factors are quite important, a truth that platform designers overlook. To compound things, the human factors are difficult to represent in an ROI plan. Also, with the traditional approach there is a risk of viewing everything in terms of cost savings rather than value. This can easily lead to cutting those critical human factor components. Again, relationships are important. To compound the situation the activities that actually go with building relationships recruiting and nurturing, etc., are not easily planned. They require warmth, trust, care, excitement, and adaptability. Their cost/return is always going to be uncertain. Because businesses have been taught to expect network effects, they underinvest in advocacy, the very thing they need that could bring the benefits of being on a network. Being on a network is only powerful if you know how to acquire great content and generate superb advocacy. People must love what you are doing madly enough to create content around it, build new services to exploiter, recommend features of your service that they will attach their reputations to, and spend their own cash on being part of your ecosystem. The Importance of the Ecosystem because of the challenges associated with attracting and orchestrating multiple parties for your passionate endeavor a Flow approach strategy aims at creating the dozens of small steps that allow entrepreneurs or executives to figure out where value might lie in to accelerate business activity in precisely those directions. Simply put, to do Flow strategy, you have to accept that you cannot know. Instead, you can hypothesize frequently across many actions and be ready to capitalize on the basics truths you discover and can build upon along the way. This is far from the MVP (minimum viable product) frame of mind. Instead, what is needed is a minimum sustainable delivery matrix (discussed in previous chapter) the comprises: - a broad set of features and hypotheses to push through to the customer - structured feedback loops to capture knowledge - capturing and formatting that knowledge in a way that easily translates into discussions that lead to new feature in hypotheses matrices which is where the asset discovery process described in chapter 2 comes into play. This comprises: - customer segmentation - asset discovery - targeted ideation - the ecosystem - stating goals Customer segmentation. In the book they use an example comprising based on a segment that the platform advocate knows to be underserved or in need of reorganization. Asset discovery. Their assets intrinsic to the platform, however, it is important to consider other third-party assets that are critical to success, e.g., content, data, and other assets that can brought it onto the platform by negotiating with partners in the ecosystem or non-partner third parties. It is essential to take into consideration critical nonessentials such as content which are essential for success. Also, it is important to inventory any missing assets which need to be developed somewhere along the line. Targeted ideation. With targeted ideation new services are created by repurposing assets in addressing previously-underserved customer segments. The key is building trust with customers you have and determine how the assets can be repurposed. The approach is freeform, will Wall-based, in iterative with how you see your potential ecosystem along with your goals. The ecosystem. Essentially this is about finding missing assets which are needed to satisfy unmet customer needs. The key is providing sufficient tools for those third-party providers that encourages them to work on your platform. Stating goals. Use an analysis of assets to provide a few goals that comprise the first small steps to a big strategy. This includes: - identifying new customer segments to discover hidden opportunity - identify internal assets that are relevant to those new segments - call out the missing assets and the dark pool - identify an ecosystem that can deliver assets that are missing from your skill set - the eight new tools and content to support an even broader ecosystem, beyond a simple supplier base - learn how to combine these assets in a way that is really appropriate for modern markets, using a Go to Market strategy that builds share-ability and advocacy into the product or service - explore content and advocacy issues, e.g., social strategy, designed to share, effects of the network. Proceed to break the work down based on the stated goals. Once done this is the beginning of an ecosystem strategy for your agile business. Does not have to be written as a strategy. Rather it gets built from the discovery of assets, the iteration of goals, areas of work in units of work, and experience and feedback. Strategy Building from Incremental Steps Keep in mind these key points when building a strategy: - the critical non-essentials necessary for high performance - efficiencies gained by optimizing across hundreds of small steps - optimizing many marginal gains if you apply these thoughts to digital projects than you have the ultimate modern paradox, i.e., highly skilled businesses built out of many small units of activity. To achieve the success work by: - customer segmentation - asset discovery - a Customer Innovation Wall that fleshes out the segmentation. Have an inventory of assets (known, hidden, unknown-but-needed next to that wall). Also, have a chart comprising targeted ideation suggesting tools and tricks needed to engage customers third parties in the ecosystem. This approach is meant to be conversational an interactive without any big planning periods. It is an exercise in value-seeking behavior. Conversations around these walls leads to the emergence of baseline activities. These are referred to as the best next actions for achieving the stated goals. Consequently, the strategy actually emerges from the generation of these best-next activities. This is a classic characteristic the complex situation where the solutions emerge based on the actions of self-organizing teams. CONCLUSION One of the main takeaways from this book should be the awareness that work at all levels of an organization is becoming less about excellence in execution more about adaptability in the face of changing circumstances. When you can accept that order is best created by allowing people to codesign multiple strands of work, and that the big plan needs to be hundreds of small units of work, then you have the capacity to adapt infinitely. You need a passion for change to follow everything that's been stated in this book. You need to believe in a movement built on small steps. Here are the link for previous chapter reviews: episode 0037 of Wrestling with Chaos. the Introduction, The Value Seeking Enterprise, and Chapter 1, Talking About Business Agility: episode 0042 of Wrestling With Chaos. For Chapter 2, The Customer In The Agile Business. episode 0043 of Wrestling With Chaos. For Chapter 3, Disrupting The Cadence of Work episode 0045 of Wrestling With Chaos. For Chapter 4, Taking Advantage of Visible Work episode 0046 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 5, Anti-Project Thinking and Business Agility episode 0047 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 6, Creating Value-Seeking Behavior episode 0049 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 7, The Agile C-Suite episode 0050 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 8 216, Value, The Anti-Plan and Testing episode 0051 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 9, Reinventing Roles episode 0053 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 10, The Customer Wall episode 0054 of Wrestling With Chaos, For Chapter 11, Broadening Your Personal Development Goals For more on the various “Walls” using Post-Its refer to their excellent book, “Flow.” In line with Business Agility and dealing with complex situations, you can download CMC’s free e-book MINDSET – 5 SIMPLE WAYS TO LOOK AT COMPLEX PROBLEMS and learn how to find a simple vantage point from which you can resolve challenges. Your feedback is important. Choose from the following options: • place a review in iTunes, • click on “leave a comment” below, • send any comments along with your name and the show number to support@ctrchg.com Listen to future episodes for our reply.

Nobody enjoys tedious, manual busywork. Precious work time is wasted, instead of spent on completing projects. Makeshift marketing isn’t fun. It’s unproductive and creates inefficiencies due to a disconnected marketing stack. Today’s guest is Jared Rhue, head of business-to-business (B2B) marketing at rewardStyle. Jared describes his strategy of combining a core plan with agile methodologies to improve team collaboration and communication. Some of the highlights of the show include: rewardStyle: Influencer marketing pioneer started from passion for fashion rewardStyle’s revenue model drives more than $1.2 billion annually in retail sales Global Community: More than 250 team members; 50,000 top-tier influencers, and 5,000 retail partners Strategy, Plan, and Review: Jared’s average day at rewardStyle Strategy Steps to Success: Document marketing plan, strategy, and methods Marketers must be agile for ability to ask and listen to audience challenges Short Message Service (SMS): Relevant channel for B2B marketing in the future rewardStyle’s core plan consists of positioning, value proposition, and priorities  Secret to Team Success: Eliminate fire drills/urgent projects created by makeshift marketing chaos Questions to prioritize projects:  Does it support quarterly/yearly Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART) goals? Does it drive annual revenue? Are there dedicated deadlines? What’s the scope of work, and which team members will it impact?  Which projects will need to be deprioritized? Stay on Track with Tasks: Implement marketing organizational management platform and agile methodology   Links:  rewardStyle Gartner CoSchedule Academy How to Get Started With Agile Marketing and Do Better Work  

“... and they rode off into the horizon together. The dynamic horizon.” Don’t you love those stories of market opportunities and organizational capabilities coming together at the end? Unfortunately, our business tactics don’t always give way to a happy ending. That’s where an agile strategy can come in handy. We delve into this idea with Pragma Consulting’s Senior Managing Director, Ralph Fernando. In this episode, we discuss defining your dynamic horizon, tracking early anticipatory indicators, and more.

Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussion among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles.   On this episode of the Digital Enterprise Society podcast Thom Singer and previous guest Nathan Hartman welcome Scott Hutcheson, faculty member at Purdue University and associate director of Purdue’s Agile Strategy Lab.  They have come together to discuss agile strategies, distributive collaboration, and the organizational and human aspects that surround the selection and implementation and use of technologies, as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie in recognizing and understanding the importance of how people interface with the technologies of a company.  They examine the differences between and benefits of organizational hierarchies and networks, how organizations can better navigate the digital transformation, and share what every listener can do to implement this information and benefit the future of their career.   On today’s podcast you will learn:   Organizational transformation in high technology organizations   Overcoming challenges in an agile strategy perspective ● How to help employees feel like new strategies aren’t being forced upon them. ● Balancing strong leadership with widespread engagement ● Encouraging ownership of new technologies will result in higher levels of engagement and adoption. Hierarchies or networks — which structure works best? ● Recognize if a hierarchy or network is the best fit for each function. ● Use the appropriate tools, disciplines and approaches for each. ● Any strategic transformation is best done in a flatter organizational structure. The 10 rules of a complex collaboration ● Identifying and understanding the rules that govern the organizational behavior of workplace ecosystems. ● Question number one — framing questions around appreciative questions. ● Refocusing to outward rather than inward Agile strategy and navigating digital transformation ● Scott’s real-life example of utilizing agile strategy. ● Identifying available assets and leveraging strategic opportunities. ● Understanding the future of organizational hierarchies. Continue the conversation with us in the Digital Enterprise Society Community at www.DigitalEnterpriseSociety.org Resources Shared: Purdue Agile Strategy Lab Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership by Scott Hutcheson Sponsor: Today’s podcast is brought to you by The Digital Enterprise Society.

Running your giving program strategically definitely means thinking out to start of the year, how you're going to approach donors, ask them for gifts and thank them, but it also means putting in place the infrastructure to deal with the unexpected. Missy Kennedy at UNC Wilmington is an expert at this. She's had a lot of success over the past few years engaging the entire campus community and dealing with unexpected needs and challenges that philanthropy could definitely have an impact on. I got Missy on the line to talk about her annual giving program and what she thinks is next for the agile, strategic annual giving program. Check out UNCW at https://giving.uncw.edu/

Nectarios Economakis is one of our old friends from Montreal, Canada.  Nectarios is a strategy and marketing executive with over 15 years of experience. At PNR, Nectarios leads business transformation and strategy for clients. Prior to PNR held positions in marketing agencies where he led search marketing teams. Nectarios was the first employee in business development at Google Montreal. We thought we would have a conversation about digital transformation, agile strategy and what the biggest misconception around it. Where you can find Nectarios: Twitter https://www.twitter.com/nectarios Check out The PNR at https://thepnr.com/ Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed this episode. Make sure to follow Tara at @missrogue & Carlos @carlospache_co  You can also check out Tara's YouTube channel, it has over 200 videos on digital strategy and online audience building.  Truly Inc. is a digital strategy and insights agency based in Toronto, Canada. Visit our website: https://trulyinc.com  Anatomy of a Strategy podcast is recorded in Toronto, Canada in the offices of Truly Inc. Produced by Carlos Pacheco and Tara Hunt. Podcast editing by Joe Pacheco 

Belinda Doveston is delighted to be your guest today and share with you her thoughts on the Competency Gap - that in-between space when you are learning something new that is not yet familiar. She shares her insights on why we need to keep creating competency gaps to accelerate our growth and when there is a dark side to the gap. If you are feeling stuck, personally, professionally or in your business, this is a must listen episode to encourage you to challenge what you know and jump off that cliff towards new learning! For more information on Belinda, visit her profile on Apian Learning and check out her latest course, the first to go live on Apian, Agile Strategy. Also check out these book links she referenced: Uncommon Service by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari   Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

Clear communication is one of our greatest challenges and most powerful opportunities. Yet, let's face it, we learn most of what we know about communication from our parents. Eeeek! In today's episode we discuss communication with John French, and unpack simple strategies to improve the results we get because of better communication. John is one of South Africa's most respected communication strategists and communication skills coaches. Having amassed 23 years of across-the-board experience in the communication training industry, John has created some of the brightest performers in every profession and industry and has radically improved the bottom line of organisations he has partnered with. With a background in Law, Public Relations and Speech and Drama, John has the necessary knowledge and experience to look at communication both holistically and strategically. Communication is a very intricate human science. Over the decades, John has developed training methodologies and communication models to help our clients break through their limiting fears and barriers to achieve communication and career success. Find out more: www.communicationguru.co.za If you would like to join the mailing list for launch news of new courses on Apian Learning: subscribe here. To indicate your interest in the Agile Strategy five-week or three-day programme: subscribe here. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

Tricia Jones joins us to chat about human growth, finding heart in the workplace, leadership and of course....what happens when the robots come. As founder and managing member of a people-development and coaching business, Capacity Builder, Tricia is as passionate about people personally as she is about their development professionally. Her practice is based largely on a set of success minded principles made famous by John Grinder and Richard Bandler through their work with NLP (Neuro Linguistics Programming); as well as the latest positive psychology, emotional intelligence and neuroscience research on how to tap into internal resources to increase individual, team and organisational performance and effectiveness. Tricia’s certifications in Motivational Mapping, Life Coaching, NLP Practice, Logotherapy, StrengthScope and Multiple Brain Techniques ensures that she has access to a full spectrum of resources, which can be uniquely applied to each challenge to provide a fit for purpose solution. Included in her expansive bag of tricks is a battery of self-inventory and profiling tools. She has been using these tools to help individuals and teams alike to identify their energy sources and to design strategies to help them improve their current motivation and performance levels which have had resounding results. For more information, contact Tricia at triciajones.co.za and capacitybuilder.co.za. Go to futureofhr.co.za for more information on the Future of HR Summit and Awards, taking place in Johannesburg on the 12 to 13 June 2019. If you would like to join the mailing list for launch news of new courses on Apian Learning: subscribe here. To indicate your interest in the Agile Strategy five-week or three-day programme: subscribe here. Subscribe To get the latest episode delivered straight to your mobile device of choice, subscribe to one of the options below or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and review. This really supports our efforts to keep bringing you great free content. Thanks in advance!

Marty Neumeier is a best-selling author who has penned such well-known books as The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip and MetaSkills. His latest book is a business thriller called, "Scramble, How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time." In this conversation with Marty, we talk about the importance of having a designer mindset in business and the challenge of building a superior brand in today's tech-infused world. Please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

In this episode we talk with the renown brand strategist Marty Neuemeier about a strategy framework he calls Agile Strategy. Marty’s written many strategy books - design strategy, brand strategy, business strategy - and his most recent book Scramble has a very unique approach to the business book genre. It’s set as a novel - Marty calls it a ‘business thriller’ I haven’t read any other business book like it. Marty tells us about why agile strategy is more likely to create innovation and bold change, what are some things to keep in mind if you want your brilliant strategy to see the light of day, and what anyone - from business executives to design leaders to individual contributors - how we all can use this framework for more effective outcomes.Marty is a keynote speaker at Interaction19 - learn more at interaction19.ixda.orgFollow Marty on Twitter @martyneumeierBOOKS & LINKSScramble: How agile strategy can build epic brands in record timeZAG: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance BrandsThe Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovationBRAND A-ZAn interactive dictionary of 1,000 essential brand termsConnect with UX Cake!Twitter Facebook Instagram www.uxcake.coYou can now support the future of the UX Cake podcast and be a part of the UX Cake community at Patreon.com/uxcake See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Minter Dialogue Episode #302Marty Neumeier is a best-selling author, having published such venerable books as The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip and MetaSkills. His latest book is Scramble, How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time. In this conversation with Marty, we talk about the creative process of converting a business book into a business thriller and the process of self-publishing. On the business side, we look at what are the keys to making an agile strategy work, the importance of design and new leadership skills, and how important the role of the Board is in today's business world. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Spark Growth specializes in Smart Cities/Innovation District development projects, Thought Leadership/ Experience Design, Economic Development initiatives, and cultivating Entrepreneur Ecosystems. Credentials include certifications in Business Incubation Management through the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) and Agile Strategy development through the Purdue University Agile Strategy Lab. Spark Growth co-produces Smart Cities Innovation Accelerators with The Innovator’s Forum, an initiative of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). These agile strategy workshops empower city decision makers to peer to peer relationships, enable them to make more informed decisions, create project scalability, and improve their ROI. Workshops are supported by expert industry partners, offering a broader perspective of successful strategies, who in turn learn firsthand issues cities face, and how to better serve the needs of their city customers. www.sparkgrowth.net https://www.facebook.com/SparkGrowth https://twitter.com/Spark_Growth

“A story lets you address problems in a very human way.” While traditional business books, textbooks, and case studies help us learn key concepts, they often miss what’s going on behind the scenes. The story arc or narrative. This week, author, designer, and brand advisor Marty Neumeier returned to the On Brand podcast (listen to his first episode here) to discuss his latest book Scramble — a business thriller about agile strategy! About Marty Neumeier Marty Neumeier is an author, designer, and brand adviser whose mission is to bring the principles and processes of design to business. His series of “whiteboard” books includes Zag, named one of the “top hundred business books of all time,” and The Designful Company, a bestselling guide to nonstop innovation. An online presentation of his first book, The Brand Gap, has been viewed more than 22 million times since 2003. A sequel, The Brand Flip, lays out a new process for building brands in the age of social media and customer dominance. His most recent book, Scramble, is a “business thriller” about how to build a brand quickly using “agile strategy.” In 1996, Neumeier founded Critique magazine, the first journal about design thinking. He has worked closely with innovative companies such as Apple, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, HP, Adobe, Google, and Microsoft to help advance their brands and cultures. Today he serves as Director of Transformation for Liquid Agency in Silicon Valley, and travels extensively as a workshop leader and speaker on the topics of design, brand, and innovation. He and his wife divide their time between California and southwest France. Episode Highlights A business thriller about agile strategy? “Well, ‘thriller’ might be a bit much,” admits Marty. “Nobody dies and nobody shoots anyone! Scramble is the story of a CEO who used to be an architect so he’s a designer. He faces a headwind and agile strategy comes to the rescue.” So, what is the story arc of agile strategy? “Agile has been made into an orthodoxy by some — I’m not one of them. It’s about making prototypes, working fast, and elaborating later.” Watch your Ps and Qs. Marty’s latest work is all about multiplying the Qs of strategy with the Ps of design thinking — problemizing, pinballing, probing, prototyping, and proofing. “If you follow this path, you’re going to come out with something very different.” Designing vs deciding. “Design is the way forward. We have to redefine designing. If you’re changing a situation into a better one, if you’re planning a change — it’s design.” What brand has made Marty smile recently? Marty is a huge fan of the MINI brand. So much so that he actually went out and bought a MINI after singing its praises so often. To learn more, go to martyneumeier.com/scramble for special extras just for listeners of the On Brand podcast. As We Wrap … Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Pia Silva gave us a shout on Twitter for our episode that featured — her! Thanks for joining us and for listening, Pia! On Brand is sponsored by my new book Brand Now. Discover the seven dynamics to help your brand stand out in our crowded, distracted world. Order now and get special digital extras. Learn more. Subscribe to the podcast – You can subscribe to the show via iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, and RSS. Rate and review the show – If you like what you’re hearing, head over to iTunes and click that 5-star button to rate the show. And if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review. This helps others find the podcast. OK. How do you rate and review a podcast? Need a quick tutorial on leaving a rating/review in iTunes? Check this out. Until next week, I’ll see you on the Internet!

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: How organizations can improve their product performance and overall performance is as important to product managers as it is to senior leaders. Making improvements has become more challenging as the business environment for most organizations is changing more quickly and contains greater uncertainty than in the past. Organizations that better respond to these changes can create a competitive advantage and one way to accomplish that is through Strategic Agility. Dan Montgomery is a practitioner of Strategic Agility and shares with us simple and practical tools in this interview. He is also the co-author of The Institute Way: Simplify Strategic Planning and Management with the Balanced Scorecard. He has helped several organizations create strategic plans and add agility.

Product managers operate in an environment of uncertainty and change, requiring the use of Strategic Agility How organizations can improve their product performance and overall performance is as important to product managers as it is to senior leaders. Making improvements has become more challenging as the business environment for most organizations is changing more quickly […]

Product managers operate in an environment of uncertainty and change, requiring the use of Strategic Agility How organizations can improve their product performance and overall performance is as important to product managers as it is to senior leaders. Making improvements has become more challenging as the business environment for most organizations is changing more quickly […]

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

Technology roadmapping was originally developed by Motorolain the 1970s, as a means for aligning technology programmes with product developments. Since then it has been widely adopted widely, at firm and sector levels. Dr Rob Phaal looks at how roadmapping has been used to emphasise cross-functional strategic dialogue, decision making and action, providing a light-touch iterative approach for developing strategy.