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Are You Data-Driven or Data-Informed?

Johanna Rothman

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? We can, for certain kinds of products or services.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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LSA Global Delivers People Team Prioritization Session to Combat Massive Change

LSA Global

New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Having constructive debate in a safe environment. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1. Assessed the Current Situation.

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Voices of Sustainability: Arcturus.io

Comatch

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. Arcturus has the advantage of being agile and, acting in a focused way, can innovate quickly.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. Leaders set the tone. It all starts at the top.