Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees
Harvard Business
JUNE 3, 2024
When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.
Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. The process of developing and executing agile strategy highlights critical issues. Market Realities.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.
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Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. The process of developing and executing agile strategy highlights critical issues. V12 is doing talent calibrations monthly.
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Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 23, 2019
Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. That's possible because an organization has product or feature teams. That works until you have more products than teams. If you keep teams together, you can still use projects in a product-oriented organization.
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Top 5 Manufacturing Trends for 2024: What’s New?
Epicflow
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AI-driven applications).
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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services
Business Consulting Agency
APRIL 9, 2024
Market Validation and Product Development Consulting services play a crucial role in validating market demand and refining product/service offerings for startups. Consultants conduct market validation exercises, customer surveys, prototype testing, and feedback analysis to validate product-market fit and identify areas for improvement.
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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Harvard Business
MAY 15, 2018
Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.
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4 Keys to Keeping Talent Up to Date
LSA Global
JULY 11, 2019
For those charged with keeping their organization’s talent up to date, the current situation is daunting. Trying to maintain a talent base that is ready and able to take on rapidly changing challenges is a monumental task – and yet more important than ever to the success of your company. 4 Keys to Keeping Talent Up to Date.
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New Business Help Through Consulting Services
Business Consulting Agency
JANUARY 16, 2024
Benefits: Streamlined operations, improved productivity, and resource optimization. Human Resources Management Assistance: Consultants guide businesses in developing HR policies, talent acquisition, and employee engagement strategies. Benefits: A positive workplace culture, attracting and retaining top talent.
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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did
Harvard Business
MAY 4, 2018
Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.
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Driving Growth and Success: How Medium-Sized Companies Succeed
Business Consulting Agency
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. This data-driven approach enables medium-sized companies to make informed decisions and tailor their products or services to meet market demand effectively. This leads to increased productivity and profitability.
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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024
Progressus
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Retain talent? Can you automate manual processes?
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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2018
And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.
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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
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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28 Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES
Harvard Business
MARCH 22, 2018
In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.
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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)
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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The Importance of Investing in Employee Development During Tough Economic Times
Clarity Consultants
JUNE 30, 2023
This is because they are better equipped to handle tasks, solve problems, and deliver high-quality work–all of which impact organizational productivity. The more self-assured they feel, the more motivated they will be to work hard, which of course, also increases productivity. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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LSA Global Delivers Facilitative Leadership Workshop for Biotech Company
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.
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36 The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution
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. Production performance. Programs and staff grow. What is “center-led”. Impact on cycle-time.
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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short
Kates Kesler
JULY 24, 2020
When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Metrics and Rewards.
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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short
Kates Kesler
JULY 22, 2020
When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Metrics and Rewards.
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LSA Global Delivers People Team Prioritization Session to Combat Massive Change
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. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches.
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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?
Progressus
OCTOBER 27, 2023
And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. Talent Marketplaces Talent marketplaces connect organization with on-demand talent like independent consultants or experts with skills outside of their core business model.
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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges
Epicflow
JANUARY 21, 2022
global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . In addition, to stay competitive on the market, business owners will struggle to deliver their products faster and produce more (e.g. Talent deficiency . The need to shorten the time for product development.
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Team Effectiveness Framework to Navigate Success
LSA Global
JANUARY 22, 2024
And while top talent certainly helps, achieving success at work is rarely an individual endeavor — it’s a collective journey fueled by the power of teams. According to the American Psychological Association, when teamed together correctly, about 10% of the workforce can account for about 30% of productivity.
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The Case for Investing More in People
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.
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Organizational Development for Small Business: What You Need to Know
Asamby Consulting
MARCH 17, 2023
This can help small businesses develop new products and services that meet the changing needs of their customers. Attracting and Retaining Talent: Small businesses often struggle to attract and retain top talent. Managing Change: Small businesses operate in a constantly changing environment.
Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components
Epicflow
JUNE 16, 2022
Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The same can be said about companies that ramp up their workforce planning and talent development. Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services.
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Future of Work in the Making
Eupnea Management Consulting
AUGUST 27, 2021
New post-crisis limits for human talent and automation reshaping work What is the impact? The strong agility for workforce changes that most businesses developed during the pandemic will help them respond to similar future crisis if crisis-led learnings and practices are preserved in their organisations. Endnotes 1.
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How to Create an Effective L&D Strategy
Clarity Consultants
MAY 10, 2023
Organizations need to determine how training can address pain points participants are experiencing while providing the company with an apparent gain, such as enhanced productivity. In turn, the approach remains agile long-term, ensuring it meets your organization’s needs today and tomorrow. Contact us today.
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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization
Kates Kesler
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
When a large automotive company shifted its organization model from a product center-of-gravity to a customer-centric model, its leaders initially believed the matrixed tensions were unnecessary complexity and associated tension with “failure.” 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino.
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Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Leaders may be more comfortable this way, but they are severely limiting points of view that could lead them and their teams in new and more productive directions. Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. Can your leaders balance production and production capability?
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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 28, 2022
Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.
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Traits of an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement
LSA Global
MAY 11, 2023
The Undisputed Value of Engaged Employees Our employee engagement survey data shows that engaged employees drive 8% greater productivity, 12% higher customer satisfaction, and 51% less voluntary turnover. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly.
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Designing an Effective Cloud Center of Excellence
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 21, 2021
For example, in the case of the client-centric, omnichannel distribution bank, success required sales and product teams to collaborate more seamlessly to the benefit of the client. And it allows for a plan that reflects the reality of implementation.
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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 13, 2023
Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed.
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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2018
In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.
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Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person
Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2017
Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.
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7 High Performer Employee Engagement Warning Signs
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
They are also 40% more productive than their unengaged counterparts. All too often, policies, rules and processes that were initially created with good intentions, impede the agility that high performers need to succeed. Top talent likes to “get things done” and have a voice in the rules they must follow. #2.
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Organizational structure for remote teams
Asamby Consulting
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
When employees have less distractions at work, it increases their productivity and performance, resulting in a better profitability for the organization. With the lack of an office environment, employees working alone could have a sense of isolation, which might lead to low productivity.
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Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture?
LSA Global
JANUARY 6, 2023
Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? Certainly, one can admire an organization with a strong sense of direction and company purpose. But if that organization does not also have a healthy degree of cultural flexibility, they may not survive.
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