Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These transformative elements, while well-recognized, are evolving at an unprecedented pace, affecting how professional services firms operate, make decisions, collaborate, and structure their services. In this article, we will explore these influential market drivers and their implications for the future of professional services firms.

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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. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units.

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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. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Market conditions drive role definition. The global/local tension.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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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. Understand Your Market Landscape Knowing your marketplace matters. Done right, thorough market research should unearth valuable insights about your ideal target clients, competitors, and emerging trends.

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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. Understand Your Market Landscape Knowing your marketplace matters. Done right, thorough market research should unearth valuable insights about your ideal target clients, competitors, and emerging trends.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Below, we’ll dig into these market forces and what they mean for professional services firms moving forward. 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.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Customer Experience Transformation Transforming your customer’s experience is far more comprehensive an effort than just musing about customer behavior or surveying a slice of your market. Because your customer experience is an extension of your vision and your brand promise, you need to agree upon where you are headed and why.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Our markets are moving at lightning speed, both the enterprise market as well as the printing and PC market, and we need to be faster, we need to be more nimble, we need to have a cost structure that is appropriate for the competitors that we face in both those businesses,” she told the business press in May, 2015 (CNBC 2015).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. Insight Center.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009). Amy Kates & Greg Kesler.

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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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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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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 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

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. The mantra of “ first-mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their markets, became the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. 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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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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 everything you decide you want (a particular market positioning, an investment in a new product, a new capability or function), articulate what that means you can’t do.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Defining and tracking success metrics. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Pricing and revenue modeling.

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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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