What’s Wrong with Agile?

Agile allows businesses to make great strides, adapting quickly to market changes and a competitive marketplace, while promoting flexibility, a high standard of work, cost reductions, and technology-business goals alignment. But it has not been the savior that enterprise has hoped it would be. But let’s give credit where credit is due. Agile has propelled Continue

How Corporate Learning Ecosystems Predict Future Corporate Agility

The survival of any company depends on its ability to respond to changing circumstances, in other words to learn from the market ecosystem and change based on that learning. Establishing continuous, data driven learning methods within teams and ecosystems is a powerful leading indicator of future agility and corporate performance. Most learning methods employed today Continue

WHY IS THE “AGILE MISS” SO PREDICTABLE & PERVASIVE?

With innovation speeding up and company life cycles getting shorter, the ability for a company to quickly respond to market conditions has never been more important. Many look to Agile as the solution. But Agile, in its current form, is not the game-changer that most companies and leaders so desperately need. Twelve years after the Continue

Digital Leadership Requires Ecosystems, Not Machines (Part 2)

The “organization as machine” philosophy has become fundamentally flawed in today’s knowledge age, especially in the digital environment. Dismantling the centuries-old “organization as machine” model and replacing it with a new management technology that unleashes the creativity and productivity of humans is the greatest opportunity and challenge now faced by companies seeking the much needed Continue