Organizations wishing to develop compentent leaders use Agile Speedup to identify, evaluate and nurture employees who show potential to move into leadership positions in future. This has become one of the cornerstones of the strategy of major organizations in succession planning.
While we cannot predict future, we can safely say that future leaders will require to master two types of skills :
a) soft skills and
b) technological intelligence.
The best leaders will be those who develop and maintain technology awareeness and able to superpose their soft skills on top of this
Soft skills incorporated into Agile Speedup include : flexibility, transparency and trust, communications, appreciation of diversity, nimble thinking , anticipation, empathy, curiosity, agility, emotional intelligence, cultucral intelligence and global awareness.
Technological intelligence goes beyond knowing what is available today but also awareness of emerging technologies.
The Agile Speedup method not only maintains a comprehensive collection of technologies in use today, but also uses machine intelligence methods to identify and incorporate new and emerging technologies into its database.