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Steve Denning

The World Agility Forum is a conference like no other. It is a conference about re-imagining the very concept of management for the digital age. Management that was successful in the 20th century is o...

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Mar 23, 2023 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

How Management can advance as a Discipline

Over the last two decades, the sad truth is that management has failed to advance as a discipline. Earlier articles in this series, here and here , showed how well-intended efforts to reform individua...

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Feb 21, 2023 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

Why Agile needs to take over Management itself

Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. We need a new approach. Instead of trying to pers...

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Feb 21, 2023 World Management Agility Forum

Rita McGrath

You can’t avoid the digital dimension of your business, even if you wanted to!

Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet both questions reflect how a shift in an underlyin...

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May 9, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

Why The Pandemic Of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Still Raging

Figure 1: The four main types of corporate purpose Despite capitalism’s two-century track record of improving most people’s lives on every major material indicator , capitalism now faces “ a crisis of...

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Apr 28, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

Why Stakeholder Capitalism Will Fail

“We should seize this moment to ensure that stakeholder capitalism remains the new dominant model.” - Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Stakeholder capitalism—the noti...

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Apr 28, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

6 Steps To Creating A Life-Inspiring Corporation

The idea that serving customers might comprise an inspiring life-purpose strikes some observers as absurd. As one reader tweeted in response to one of my recent articles , “In my experience, people ne...

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Apr 28, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

The Advent Of Narrative Economics

We live in an age of competing economic narratives. After the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a point this afternoon, President Trump tweeted: Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fai...

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Apr 28, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

What Is The Digital Age And What Does It Mean?

As books like Dignity In The Digital Age (Simon Schuster) 2022) by Congressman Ro Khanna begin to appear, as talk of “the digital age” becomes commonplace, and as executives grapple with “digital disr...

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Mar 15, 2022 World Management Agility Forum

Curt Carlson

Work on Important Unmet Customer Needs: Not ones just interesting to you

If you don’t work on important problems, you won’t achieve important results. The Need Do you work in a customer-focused enterprise? Does everyone understand the fundamentals of value creation – a cor...

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Aug 23, 2021 World Management Agility Forum

Steve Denning

Why Industrial-Era Companies Are Dying

Why are most firms are having such problems with their digital transformations? While many have realized that their future lies in digital, most have yet to grasp that a digital transformation require...

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Jun 30, 2021 World Management Agility Forum

Michael Lurie

The new roles of leaders in 21st century organizations

Today’s complex business environment calls for a new approach to leadership with four new roles: visionary, architect, coach and catalyst. As we’ve discussed extensively, agile organizations operate i...

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Jun 8, 2021 World Management Agility Forum

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