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How to Be Forever Employable Nov 02, 2020

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Jeff Gothelf helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book "Lean UX", "Sense & Respond", and his latest, "Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking Work and Let Your Next Job Find You." After waking up on his 35th birthday in a panic about the second half of his career, Gothelf knew he needed a change. So he created a content platform that brings work to him rather than him having to compete on the corporate ladder. He encourages others to approach the service that you provide and your career as a product. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

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A Venture Capital Model for Innovation | Business Agility Series Oct 08, 2020

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How important is transformative innovation to your company and are you willing to invest in it? John Carter, a product development expert and inventor, shares his advice for how to nurture innovation within an organization.

He believes a governance structure that includes the following is a key to success:

Governance: Get the right leaders to the table and give them oversight of fragile innovations. They allocate capital from the pool of venture funds.
Process: Establish a process for receiving and selecting ideas; identify how to transfer ideas into development using clear entrance and exit criteria.
Finance: Create a specific investment for the strategic innovation portfolio and approve it in the budget year. Make it large enough to start at least three projects.

Carter emphasizes that for true innovation to happen, the employees focused on the project should be moved out of the organization into a protected space, away from everyday distractions and tasks such as Slack, email etc. "The biggest place where innovations fail is transferring out of this protected zone and into the company."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ Alalia Lundy hosts.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media!Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do Oct 01, 2020

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Alicia McLain is the co-founder of Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) in North America, an organization with an intent to bring coaches together around the mission of building competency and community. She joined us to share more about ACE, as well as the nine things she has seen that wildly successful agile coaches do.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Agile Coaching Exchange: http://agilecoachingexchange.com/

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media!Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

2020 Business Agility Report Key Insights Sep 24, 2020

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Evan Leybourn is the founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute, an international membership body to both champion and support the next generation of organizations. He joins us to discuss the key findings from this year's Business Agility Report, their annual flagship research study revealing where organizations around the globe are in their business agility journey.

Interestingly, this year's survey responses were collected in the time period preceding and through the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing a unique view into the impact of a global disruption while it was happening.

"Those companies that drop the ball now and don't start making a difference to their agility, when the next crisis comes - and there will be another crisis - they're going to be at square one. And those who keep it going, they're the ones who will not only survive but thrive."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Download 2020 Business Agility Report

Become a member of the Business Agility Institute: businessagility.institute/join/

Accenture | SolutionsIQ is a founding member of the Business Agility Institute.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media! Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits | Business Agility Series Sep 17, 2020

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Bruce Nix is the Director of Business Agility at Vaco Memphis, a talent and solutions firm. He shares with us a wonderful example of agility: pairing up people impacted by the pandemic with non-profits in need of their talent. Listen to this case study that began with two people taking action and hear Nix's recommendations for organizations as they to emerge from a crisis.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Read case study on Business Agility Institute's website.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: https://www.solutionsiq.com/podcast/

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Structural Agility to Enable Flow | Business Agility Series Sep 10, 2020

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Jardena London's mission is to help organizations become healthy, productive and fun. She is founder of Souls@Work, a movement to help bring soul back into the workplace. She explains to us the concept of Structural Agility and how it can help businesses achieve true agility and survive the challenges posed by the changing environment.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Read London's paper on Business Agility Institute's website: https://businessagility.institute/learn/structural-agility-using-structure-to-enable-the-flow-of-value/

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media!Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

Using a Trojan Horse to Introduce Agility Sep 03, 2020

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Michael Hamman helps organizations grow their inner capacity for leadership agility. He joined us for this "geek fest" of an episode on the topic of agility and transformation. Hamman delves deep into a discussion on how people must shift their mindset in order to deal with the complexity surrounding them, before a company can reach "outer agility" – the agile practices. He describes his method of working on a perceived problem as a trojan horse for introducing agile concepts into their work processes.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's William Rowden hosts.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

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Connect with us on social media!Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management Jul 23, 2020

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In this special episode, we offer a broad overview of portfolio management that uses lean and agile thinking and approaches. Our guides are Evan Campbell and Kat Conner, who together have 50 years of experience in portfolio, budgeting and funding.

"Agile portfolio management is matching limited supply to unlimited demand to maximize business outcomes," say Campbell and Conner.

You'll hear five parts:

Introduction to agile portfolio management
The supply side
The demand side
Matching and governance
Funding and budgeting

This is a deep dive into the topic and it's the full-length story behind our Agile Portfolio Management video series. Watch and share these 5-minute educational videos with your customers and colleagues and watch the recorded webinar to hear real-world examples from clients and coaches in the trenches at solutionsiq.com/apm.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media! Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

Our Systems Are Failing! Resilience for the Rest of Us Jul 16, 2020

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Complex systems are in a state of continuous failure. Resilience is the ability of the system to maintain its performance characteristics when failures occur. Benefits of resilience include high availability, quality, scalability, and improved business KPIs.

But, high level of resilience is hard to achieve and requires a combination of technical, procedural, and organizational approaches. In this episode, Stas Zvinyatskovsky, a managing director at Accenture, covers what it takes to achieve resilience in software systems.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

Connect with us on social media!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/

The Best Virtual Teams Do These 3 Things | Business Agility Series Jul 09, 2020

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The drive for virtual meetings that are efficient and goal-oriented can often cause us to lose sight of the fact that we are people, needing real connection. Without the visual and often unspoken cues that normally surround us, our virtual interactions can be an uninteresting and lonely place. Morgan Legge, a speaker at the 2020 Business Agility Conference, shares three ways to grow meaningful and connected virtual teams and meetings.

"Pandemic work is not virtual work. I encourage people to remember that someday, we won't be working with our kids and family all around us."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ Alalia Lundy hosts.

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

Podcast library: www.agileamped.com

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