Fitter. Faster. Future.

Fitter. Faster. Future.

Welcome to "Fitter. Faster. Future.," a podcast designed for the innovative minds in the business world. Each episode in our podcast targets a unique aspect of business agility and transformation, essential for those who lead and shape the enterprises of tomorrow. Fitter: Dive into the strategies, methods and thinking that fortify businesses, making them resilient and robust in the face of change. Here, we focus on organisational design, prioritisation, value realisation, transformation and leadership practices that build the foundation for enduring success. Faster: Speed is the currency of today's business landscape. These episodes accelerate your knowledge with insights on frameworks, health checks, agile practice, product management, DevOps and accelerated delivery that will keep you ahead of the curve. Future: Peer into the horizon with conversations that envision the future of business agility. From emerging technologies to goal setting, training, new capabilities and tooling. These episodes are for leaders who are not just participating in the future but are actively shaping it. Hosted by Real World, Senior Business Agility experts, this podcast brings together thought leaders, industry veterans, and innovative disruptors. Together, we dissect real-life case studies, explore transformative ideas, and deliver actionable insights. Whether you're a mid-level manager, a C-suite executive, or anyone passionate about business transformation, "Fitter. Faster. Future." is your weekly dose of expert knowledge and inspiration. Tune in to join our global community and redefine the landscape of modern business. Subscribe now to embark on your journey to help your business get fitter, get faster and get ready for the future.

Episodes

February 21, 2024 11 mins

Ask yourself, why do your employees follow you? Are you a manager or a true leader? Does this look different when it comes to the new way of working? Ron Laudadio answers these questions in this next instalment of our Leadership Agility podcast series.

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A learning organisation thrives in today’s complexity but many organisations are still struggling to learn how to learn. In this episode, from a recent EPiC Koolaid webinar talk, Ron Laudadio shares practical tips to become that elusive learning organisation that leaders strive for.

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In this episode, hear some highlights from a recent EPiC Koolaid talk where Ron Laudadio shares wisdom from the mistakes of others who have embarked on a transformation journey.

At EPiC we call this ‘formulas to failure’ that you should avoid if you want to deliver great outcomes with your transformation and to make change stick.

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In this episode, Ron Laudadio shares some highlights from a recent EPiC Koolaid talk where he explores the notion that empowerment is a mindset.

In the episode, you’ll hear some practical, proven tips and tools around team empowerment, what it really means and how to achieve it.

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Off the back of our recent Koolaid webinar, where we shared tips on how to get troubled projects and programs back on track, we had a number of questions from the session that we followed up on after the event.

In this podcast episode, Enterprise Coach and seasoned project and program manager Antoinette Kesha answers these popular questions from the session including:

  • How do we better connect our program plan with the why? Is...
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In your quarterly cycle are you so focused on planning and the process that you don’t take the opportunity to unlock innovation through capability uplift and chapter implementation? In just 6 minutes, discover how to merge product roadmaps with capability backlogs using transparency as the key. Learn practical tools and strategies for uplifting capabilities on a quarter-by-quarter basis, ensuring your organisation stays agile and f...

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Explore the power of product vision, strategies, and roadmaps with our EPiC Coach, Sam Rickard in this lightning talk from our recent Koolaid webinar. Discover the patterns that cause pain and confusion in organisations and unlock the secrets to a clear, unified vision, stakeholder engagement, and effective feedback loops.

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Join our OKR guru and Enterprise Coach Peter Cripps, for a lightning talk on OKRs in Action: Tips for Immediate Implementation. If you're looking for a quick checklist of things to think about at the end of the quarter for your Objectives and Key Results, this talk from our recent Koolaid webinar series will get you started.

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In this episode, we hear some highlights from our Koolaid webinar series on "How to bring troubled projects back on track”. We start the conversation around the recent movement to stop thinking about reducing change fatigue and instead how you can start to build change fitness.

In the episode, you’ll hear some practical, proven tips and tools from Enterprise Coaches and Delivery Leads, Antoinette Kesha and Grant Wood, who have dec...

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In this episode, we hear some highlights from our KoolAid webinar series on the art, data and science behind making change stick. We start the conversation around the recent movement to stop thinking about reducing change fatigue and instead how you can start to build change fitness.

In the episode, you’ll hear some practical tips and tools from our Lean Change Foundations trainer, agile coach and author, David Morris.

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Costs are going through the roof and timeframes are being squashed which is putting more pressure on product owners than ever before. So how do we get better at saying no…politely. The key is to be able to prioritise effectively.

Tune in to hear highlights from our recent KoolAid webinar where you’ll get tips and tools from our EPiC certified Product Owner course with trainer and agile coach Iain Sanders.

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Roy Stapleton is a Transformation Enterprise Agility Coach with Epic an expert in Organisational Design, he’s been with Epic for more than 2 years having spent the previous 15 years in the organisational transformation consulting in Europe, Asia, Australia and NZ.

Today we’re taking a close look into one of Roy’s specialities, Organisation Design and why it’s so much more than just a restructure.

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Lisa Duty is our EPiC Director in Singapore and an Enterprise Coach but not only is Lisa a highly experienced Business Agility Strategist, she’s also without a doubt one of the nicest people on the planet. Today we’re talking about the difference between consulting and coaching and what they both offer to a business.

During this conversation we also talk about the positive impacts of leaders accepting vulnerability over the last c...

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What could probably be described as a mass mid-life crisis en mass, The Great Resignation has seen many people evaluating their jobs or even whole careers and making a shift towards something more meaningful.

But how is this impacting employers and what considerations do they need to have to retain their people?

Today’s podcast is hosted by Lisa Duty, EPiC Singapore Director and joined by regular Brendan Tubbs as well as Liat Algr...

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We chatted with Natasha Redman, Change Management Consultant and Biunca Hooper, transformation coach on how change is handled not only in an Agile environment but also in improving a Business Agility culture.

Natasha Redman linkedin.com/in/natasha-redman-4a795827 casadecambio.com.au

Biunca Hooper https://www.linkedin.com/in/biunca/ https://epicagile.co.nz

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September 29, 2021 24 mins

Whether a company is just starting on a Business Agility transformation journey or they have a well established Agility culture, they are still faced with one of the great challenges in running a business, hiring the right people.

Today we’re looking at some of the unique aspects for hiring in Agile organisations so I’ve grabbed our very own Gregg Weatherall from our EPiC back office as well as Kris Coulthard from Precision Sourci...

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Earlier this month, the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report came out detailing the impact of human activity on the environment utilizing more advanced climate science, technology and data to give an even greater insight and predictability of the future.

We talk through the importance of setting clear and understandable objectives and then how we could motivate the people who are implementing the change.

In this episode, I talk to fellow...

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Forward-thinking organizations have realized that with the changing pace of today’s world, where we're seeing government policy change moment by moment, where they used to be set in stone and not change without an act of parliament, over many months, if not years has now been turned on its head post COVID. There are organizations out there that are now staring down the barrel of rapidly changing government policy, that makes quite ...

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Business Agility Transformations involve a business changing the way it approaches work, culture and roles within the business, so what happens to the history of that business? It is where it is now based on what it’s done in the past, so how much of that past should it hold onto? What’s worth holding onto and what do they let go of?

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During our second episode of At Home With Interesting People, EPiC Director Brad Bennett asked our guest Matt McCormack from Cognizant, about the big lessons he’s learnt from his years of doing digital transformations.

He replied: Executives are generally smart people at what they do, but know very little about transformation.”

You can see that they’re incredibly good at what they’ve done and they’ve been able to build their way u...

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