Steve Denning

Author of The Age of Agile
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Steve Denning is the author of the book, The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done (Amacom, 2018). Steve is the former Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank. He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia on leadership, innovation, Agile management and organizational storytelling. Steve’s innovative work has been recognized world-wide.  His clients have included many Fortune 500 companies. He also leads the SD Learning Consortium, a group of major private sector firms that are sharing knowledge about the Agile transformation journey. You can follow Steve on Twitter at @stevedenning.

Steve, organizational storyteller extraordinaire, is the author of several books on management, leadership, innovation and organizational storytelling, including The Leader’s Guide To Radical Management (2010), The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass 2nd ed. 2011), and The Secret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass 2010). Steve’s article, “Telling Tales” was published by Harvard Business Review in May 2004.

Steve writes a column on Forbes.com about radical management, leadership, innovation and business storytelling: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/ Steve is a member of the board of directors of the Scrum Alliance.
Steve is the former program director of knowledge management at the World Bank.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

  • In November 2000, Steve was named as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).
  • In June 2006, Steve was recognized as an All-Star Speaker by the International Association of Business Communicators.
  • In December 2007, The Secret Language of Leadership was selected by the Financial Times in its list of “Best Business Books of 2007”.
  • In January 2008, The Secret Language of Leadership was selected by 800_CEO-READ, the book distributor, as the best book on leadership in 2007.
  • In 2010, The Leader’s Guide To Radical Management was selected by 800_CEO-READ, the book distributor, as one of the best five books on management in 2010.

PRAISE FOR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP

Financial Times: “If business leaders do not immediately grasp the vital insights offered by this book, both they and their organizations are doomed.”– Financial Times, August 29, 2007.

Chip Heath: “Steve Denning is the Warren Buffett of business communication. He sees things others don’t and is able to explain them so the rest of us can understand.” –Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, Stanford University

Specialties:

  • Leadership, innovation and business narrative.
  • Using story to inspire even difficult audiences with enduring enthusiasm for change.
  • Using story to generate high-performance groups, i.e. groups that are not only exceptionally productive, but also deeply meaningful for the participants.

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All Sessions by Steve Denning

  • Business Agility Day

    March 6th, 2018

  • 17:00  - 17:45
    Agile management has become necessary to survive, but is it enough to thrive? Many organizations have embraced Agile management on the assumption that if they upgrade existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings or quality enhancements for existing customers (i.e. operational Agility), they will realize financial gains. Owing to increased competitive pressures, this assumption often proves incorrect and consequently top management support for Agile often flags. It turns out that major financial gains are more likely to come from Strategic Agility, i.e. generating innovations that create entirely new products and markets, and that turn non-customers into customers. Strategic Agility is the next frontier of Agile management. The profit margins are bigger, and the value to society is often larger. Steve will show what’s involved in achieving Strategic Agility, including a playbook for systematically generating market-creating innovations and the necessary shift in culture that is required.
    Business Agility
    Where
    Ball Room

  • Design Innovation Day

    March 7th, 2018

  • 10:30  - 11:15
    An unstoppable revolution is now underway in our society, affecting almost everyone. The revolution is very simple. Today, organizations are connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, all the time. Knowledge is being shared on the fly. What has become possible is now increasingly necessary. Continuous innovation is the performance requirement for the 21st Century organization, with instant, intimate, frictionless value at scale. To accomplish this, firms must embrace an Agile mindset and implement the three laws of Agile management: the Law of the Customer, the Law of the Small Team and the Law of the Network. Leaders must also recognize that the revolution is about “being Agile,” not just "doing Agile" or “implementing Agile processes.” In the Agile world of continuous innovation, diligent employees who simply follows orders can’t get the job done. Instead, firms must inspire innovation through an initiative, commitment, smarts, and passion. Agile is about creating workplaces that enable human beings to contribute their full talents to something worthwhile and meaningful—creating value for other human beings.
    Design Innovation
    Where
    Ball Room 2




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