LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

This technology and consumer packaged goods company client wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets. People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Discipline and Focus.

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Henman Performance Executive

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Similarly, organizational stars hold high standards for themselves, so it makes sense that they will hold their places of employment to equally high metrics. Build a strong culture. Two components characterize all successful corporate cultures: a strong change orientation and a commitment to learning. Develop a clear strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. In addition to ramping up technology savvy recruitment, CEOs face the weighty challenge of creating a cohesive, high-performance culture.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Defining and tracking success metrics. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

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. Some leading companies offer formal civility training.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. Our aim was to develop simple, clear, robust, and practical guidance. Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones.

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