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Third Thursday – February 2024 – Doug Dunston
Balancing Structure and Autonomy for Optimal Team Performance https://player.vimeo.com/video/915329632?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 About Our Third Thursday Guest: Doug Dunston Doug, our esteemed main speaker, brings a rich background in strategic processes and team...
Third Thursday – February 15th, 2024
Speaker: Doug Dunston Topic: Motivation and Teams Bio: Doug, a Fellow of the Strategic Doing Institute, is an educator, coach, facilitator, writer, and conductor with a deep technical and artistic background....
Plugging the “ingenuity gap”
A few years ago, there was a growing buzz about the "ingenuity gap." The question posed by author Thomas Homer-Dixon was whether the world's problems have outstripped our ability as...
Keeping your skills relevant as the world moves agile
The Rise of Agile Skills In the modern workplace, agility has become a keyword for success. As "Agile" becomes increasingly prevalent in job descriptions and performance reviews, the quest for...
Third Thursday – January 2024 – Mark Robinson
Embarking on a Journey of Lean Process Improvement https://player.vimeo.com/video/912269562?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 About Our Third Thursday Guest: Mark Robinson Mark Robinson is the managing director of St. Andrew's Lean Consulting, with over 15...
What does Lean mean?
What does Lean mean? What does Lean stand for? What’s it all about? Good questions. To begin, ‘Lean’ is not an abbreviation, an acronym, or an initialism. Okay, so what...
Collaborate to Innovate: Mastering Process Collaboration in the Agile Era
Understanding Process Collaboration Establishing a practice of Process Collaboration is a growing method for how work needs to be accomplished when a cross-functional team or a work area with multiple...
Revisiting S-Curves
Rethinking S-Curves has been on my mind lately. One of the most enjoyable parts of my work at the Agile Strategy Lab is working with Strategic Doing practitioners who are...
5 Ways to Be an Agile Leader
Leadership can feel like an endless journey in putting out fires: circumstances can change at a moment's notice. Here are 5 ways to be an agile leader: Use cognitive diversity...
What’s in it for me to contact the Agile Strategy Lab?
The feedback we received from participants in the Lab’s programs is that no one ever showed them how to work with teams or how their collaboration skills could be improved....
Why experiments are part of agile strategy
Experiments make people nervous, at least outside of a science lab. They feel too risky to have a place in the serious business of strategy development and implementation. But in...
Building a business ecosystem with agile strategies
Within the business ecosystem there are many ways to implement agile strategies. Many of these strategies use a variety of methodologies that can be embraced by the leadership team and...
