Agile Leadership

Agile Leadership: A dynamic approach that emphasizes adaptability, team empowerment, and continuous improvement in leading change.

More Innovation Glossaries

AI Automation

AI Automation: The integration of artificial intelligence with automation to enhance system efficiencies and decision-making processes.

Partnerships

The act of carrying on a commercial project with partners

Innovation Leaders

Innovation Leaders: Individuals driving organizational change through pioneering strategies and creative solutions.

Top Agile Leadership Resources

Business Leadership – 7 Ways Mass Forms a Catholic Business Person

Business Leadership – 7 Ways Mass Forms a Catholic Business Person

Innovation blog discusses how attending daily mass has positively influenced the author's perspective on business, and how it can inform the lives of Catholic businesspeople.

View
Charisma is Important for a Leader, But There are Other Qualities to Consider

Charisma is Important for a Leader, But There are Other Qualities to Consider

Charisma is important, but not the only trait a leader needs. Good leaders listen, surround themselves with smart people, delegate responsibility, never stop learning, and see the bigger picture.

View
Creative Job Titles – 7 New Titles for the C-Level

Creative Job Titles – 7 New Titles for the C-Level

Creative job titles at the C-level, including Chief Recreation Officer and Chief Meme Officer, are becoming increasingly popular.

View
Daily Business Reflections - A Sample of a New Project

Daily Business Reflections - A Sample of a New Project

Daily business reflections provide insights into strategic approaches and ideas to become a better leader in your career.

View
Developing an agile innovation strategy | Idea Drop

Developing an agile innovation strategy | Idea Drop

Agile methodology and innovation go hand in hand, but many fail to acknowledge the compatibility. Agile innovation is about adapting and thriving on an ongoing basis, and it requires an agile strategy to achieve it.

View
Exploring the Power of Pause with Leadership Thought-Leader & Korn Ferry Senior Partner Kevin Cashman

Exploring the Power of Pause with Leadership Thought-Leader & Korn Ferry Senior Partner Kevin Cashman

Explore the Power of the Pause Principle with Korn Ferry Senior Partner Kevin Cashman as he shares insights on qualities of a great leader.

View
Five Causes of Innovation Blues

Five Causes of Innovation Blues

Innovation is a key factor for organizational success, but its management has a low success rate. Pearl Zhu identifies the five causes of innovation failure, including a lack of innovative leadership and a bureaucratic culture.

View
Five Strengths of Innovation Leaders

Five Strengths of Innovation Leaders

Innovation leadership is key for business success. Here are five strengths that innovative leaders possess: open-mindedness, resourcefulness, inquisitiveness, adaptability, and interdisciplinarity.

View
Five Ways to Develop Your Leadership Skills

Five Ways to Develop Your Leadership Skills

Leadership skills are vital for project managers to improve team performance. Effective communication, team building, vision creation, credibility building, and negotiation are essential qualities for a good leader.

View
Get to Know Greg Gilmore, Austin Business Journal’s Best Large Company CEO

Get to Know Greg Gilmore, Austin Business Journal’s Best Large Company CEO

Greg Gilmore, CEO of Planview, shares tips for effective leadership and building a strong organizational culture.

View
Great Leaders - 12 Ways Great Leaders Turn into Bad Leaders

Great Leaders - 12 Ways Great Leaders Turn into Bad Leaders

Great leaders can also turn into bad leaders; here are twelve ways it happens.

View
How Collaborative Leadership is Changing Business

How Collaborative Leadership is Changing Business

Collaborative leadership is becoming increasingly popular in businesses as it creates a stronger and more efficient team by allowing everyone to contribute and work together.

View
How leaders can build a more creative & innovative culture Dr Ken Hudson

How leaders can build a more creative & innovative culture Dr Ken Hudson

Leaders must build a creative and innovative culture by fostering idea receptivity, experimentation, risk-taking, enjoyment of the process, focus on results, and operating at the edge of chaos.

View
Innovation and leadership in the workplace | Idea Drop

Innovation and leadership in the workplace | Idea Drop

Successful innovation management requires leaders to lead by example, offer a safe space to innovate, and promote collaboration while establishing an effective reward system.

View
Innovation Behavior

Innovation Behavior

Innovation is a skill that can be developed through competencies. There are two main competency levels: The Innovator and The Innovation Leader.

View
Innovation Intelligence – 4 Thinking Tools for Innovators

Innovation Intelligence – 4 Thinking Tools for Innovators

Effective innovators need a range of thinking skills, styles, and processes that help them generate ideas and turn them into useful innovations. These can be broken down into four interconnected parts: IQ, ESI (emotional and social intelligence), AQ (agile intelligence), and CQ (creative intelligence).

View
Innovation Tautogram: A novel tool that is simple and powerful

Innovation Tautogram: A novel tool that is simple and powerful

Harness the power of vocabulary to innovate with the innovation tautogram technique. Select a letter, create a list of related words, and use them to bridge gaps and find innovation opportunities.

View
Innovative Enablement Drives Adoption

Innovative Enablement Drives Adoption

Innovative enablement can determine the success of software products. It includes learning systems that provide just-in-time learning through multi-media channels.

View
Leadership Skills - 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

Leadership Skills - 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

Learn how to fake it until you make it in a new leadership role with these 8 tips.

View
Leadership Tips for Startup Entrepreneurs

Leadership Tips for Startup Entrepreneurs

Leadership skills are essential for startup entrepreneurs. Here are tips that include leading by example, being tech-savvy, and investing in employee education.

View
Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Staying connected is essential for businesses in the post-pandemic world. Leaders must foster trust, alignment, and connection with their teams to create a positive, innovative culture.

View
Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

Project portfolio planning doesn't have to be dreaded if done with collaboration, agility, and the right tools.

View
Overcoming Three Obstacles on the Path to Becoming an Adaptable Enterprise

Overcoming Three Obstacles on the Path to Becoming an Adaptable Enterprise

Organizations face three major obstacles on the path to becoming adaptable: lack of commitment from leadership, lack of cross-functional communication and coordination, and lack of focus on results.

View
Recognizing Your Type of Innovation Leader

Recognizing Your Type of Innovation Leader

Identifying the type of innovation leadership personality within your organization can help you manage innovation work better and attract the necessary resources. This article explains how to recognize the traits of innovation leaders.

View
Reignite Your SAFe® Journey with Flow Metrics and Program Predictability Measures

Reignite Your SAFe® Journey with Flow Metrics and Program Predictability Measures

SAFe is a popular Agile methodology for business agility, but it doesn't guarantee success on its own. Kate Chajka outlines the importance of measuring development work to business outcomes and discusses the new Flow Metrics added to the latest SAFe iteration.

View
Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Selling Agile to executives for an Agile transformation requires getting them on board. Here are eight tips to get senior leaders behind your Agile transformation.

View
The Future of Idea Management

The Future of Idea Management

The future of idea management involves an idea meritocracy where the best idea wins, building an ambidextrous and agile organization, and the rise of automation and artificial intelligence to make the work more efficient and effective.

View
The Keys to Leading Innovation, with Greg Brandeau

The Keys to Leading Innovation, with Greg Brandeau

Greg Brandeau, former COO of Maker Media, discusses the keys to leading innovation in this episode of The Innovation Engine podcast.

View
The Leaderless Organization

The Leaderless Organization

Do we really need leaders? This article explores successful examples of organizations that have succeeded without managers and how leaders can effectively direct passion rather than just work.

View
The New Leadership Toolbox to Drive Innovation

The New Leadership Toolbox to Drive Innovation

Innovation experts advise that leaders should accept innovation as a wicked problem and guide their teams through the design and testing phases with a focus on breakthrough business models.

View
An image of puzzle pieces linking with a network of neurons.

Three Lessons in Leading Innovation from the LSI

To create a culture of innovation, leaders need to develop constructive teams and redirect energy towards blue behaviors. Collaboration and creating a safe environment for trying new things are important.

View
An image of a climbing vine with various innovative symbols as leaves.

To Innovate We Must be Willing to Learn a Lot!

Learning agility is critical for innovative leadership. Agile learners are adaptable to changes and can learn from experiences. The concept is most often applied to leadership and has a profound impact on performance.

View
An image of an abstract tree with branching innovation-themed icons.

Top skills for innovation leadership

Innovation leadership is crucial for an organizational environment where employees can participate in innovation activities to capture valuable ideas. Innovation leaders must define innovation strategy, develop innovation culture and recognize innovators.

View
An image of ghostly figures encircled by an assortment of digital shields.

Trick or Treat: 5 Spooky Monsters that Terrify Agile Teams — and How to Defeat Them

Agile teams face five spooky monsters that threaten their success – The Agileless Horseman, The Scrum Thing, The Grim Worker, The Silostein Monster, and Tools from the Black Lagoon. But there are ways to fight back and succeed.

View
Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Coaches can help individuals and organizations reach their full potential by identifying areas of opportunity, setting goals, brainstorming, challenging perspectives, holding accountable, and boosting confidence.

View
An image of interconnected abstract shapes symbolizing a dynamic network.

What Does ‘Collaboration’ Really Mean?

Collaboration is essential for business success but it’s not enough to simply choose the right tool. Planview AgilePlace enables collaboration by providing an enabler for teams to work together and engage with their processes.

View
An image of a lightbulb intertwined with cogwheels representing innovative thinking.

What Is an Innovation Manager – And How Do You Become a Great One?

Learn what it takes to become an innovation manager and succeed in the role by mastering skills such as communication, project and change management, and leadership.

View
An image of a light bulb entwined with growing vines, symbolizing organic growth and innovation.

What type of Leadership Style Transforms Culture?

To sustain innovation in an organization, it is essential to cultivate a creative work culture where innovation is welcomed as part of the work. By encouraging specific behaviors that promote creativity and innovation, a company can affect lasting, positive cultural change.

View
An image of gears and clouds interconnected denoting automated systems.

Where to Innovate – Organizational Innovation Explained

Organizational innovations such as AI, automation, and cloud solutions are gaining importance in the workplace, as companies strive to improve their performance and competitiveness through new organizational methods that reduce administrative costs, enhance employee productivity and reduce supply chain costs.

View
An image of intertwined gears and speech bubbles symbolizing fluid conversation.

Why Should Recruiters Prefer Conversational Recruiting?

Conversational recruiting is a high-tech strategy that can help improve recruiter-candidate relationships and fast-track the hiring process.

View
New Ways to Improve: 7 Simple Innovation Tools

New Ways to Improve: 7 Simple Innovation Tools

Are your improvement initiatives feeling stale? Incorporating innovation tools will help you generate potential, novel solutions and ultimately improve your process, product or service.

View
The Fugle innovation model Template

The Fugle innovation model Template

The fugle innovation model is a framework that turn ideas into real innovations.

View