Agile Innovation

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A new book offers Agile-based principles and techniques for accelerating the innovation process, reducing inherent risks, and nurturing creativity and collaboration. Featuring 11 detailed case studies, it addresses five critical performance areas: strategy, portfolios, process, culture and infrastructure.

In their new book Agile Innovation; The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Business, Inspire Engagement and Ignite Creativity (Wiley; Sept. 2014), authors Langdon Morris, Moses Ma and Po Chi Wu make the case for a paradigm shift in the methodology of innovation. Their approach is to combine the best of Agile and Innovation methods to deliver a new way to pursue innovation that addresses three critical drivers of success: accelerating the overall process; reducing the inherent risks; and engaging your entire organization and the broader ecosystem in the innovation effort. 

In the preface, the authors, who are principal founders of FutureLab, note that your typical innovation initiative usually catches fire first with the CEO, who hopes that the passion will trickle down, but these initiatives rarely get past the crowdsourcing and “idea contest” stage. Agile development, by contrast, is usually propagated bottom up, from a grass roots base of converts, and then is often blocked by upper management who are frankly afraid of change and losing control.  This book rejects …

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