Steve Denning What is the World Agility Forum 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... WAF 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... WAF 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... WAF 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... WAF leadership 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... WAF 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... WAF 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... WAF 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... WAF Apr 28, 2022 World Management Agility Forum
AGILE21, Pedro Gaspar Fernandes Do you work in a grown-up culture? Despite organisations wanting employees to become more autonomous, accountable, to work more proactively and collaboratively, and as a result, to improve employee experience, productivity and retentio... Apr 1, 2022 At Insights
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... WAF Mar 15, 2022 World Management Agility Forum
AGILE21, Hugo Lourenco You Can't Ignore it - Managers in the 21st Century The Age of Agile in the digital economy Genuinely believe disruptions will happen more quickly and more often. Frequently, we see legacy businesses giants beaten by little startups. Some research conc... The Agile Thinkers Jan 14, 2022 At Insights
AGILE21, Hugo Lourenco When more is not better? Your company is trapped! All companies can be trapped into aging advantages and or school mindset executives, so they will be surprised when things change. Perhaps they shouldn’t be surprised, just because it’s not a surprise... The Agile Thinkers Jan 12, 2022 At Insights