Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies?

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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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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected. Amy Kates & Greg Kesler.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” The results?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. For the past 30 years, the literature on leadership and empowerment has advised leaders not to be too prescriptive about these questions, lest they undermine employee empowerment.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. 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. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!).

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

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. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

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