Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We recently worked with a high-tech instruments company focused on growth. Given our ideal customer mix, where should we be a product-centric innovator, a me-too fast follower, and customer-centric? How should business development, M&A, and partnerships be aligned to the growth strategy and innovation portfolio?

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The cloud – which refers to storing, managing, and processing data via a network of remote servers instead of locally on a server or personal computer – is quickly becoming a critical source for innovation. Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. New competitors, a rapidly evolving tech landscape, and the looming presence of uncertainty were already forcing firms to redefine legacy business models and processes.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility. See Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.) Next are the construction metaphors and how they prevent us from thinking about learning Construction Metaphors Reduce the Importance of Learning High-tech product development occurs because a team of people learn together.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Several weeks ago, I posted my innovation principles , based on Modern Management Made Easy , book 3. Now that I'm integrating all the tech review for Book 3, I realize I can simplify all these principles. I developed them because I was discovering the user journey through the book. I needed a way to link the ideas together.

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The tech giants—Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon—are in the driver’s seat, setting new standards for digital. But while many companies are restructuring their governance to become digital ready, there is still much to be done in terms of implementing agile at scale, capitalizing on open innovation, and hiring new digital talent.

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BCG

AUGUST 30, 2016

To succeed in this challenging and uncertain environment, banks’ trade finance offerings must be agile, low cost, and valued by customers despite the growing availability and safety of alternatives to documentary trade. Digital innovations in the customer interface can create “stickier,” more valuable relationships.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

What issues will they bring to automotive project management, and what are the ways to address them? Read further to explore these issues in detail. . Challenges in Automotive Projects. The automotive industry is moving towards the new future by leaps and bounds. Dealing with uncertainty. Increasing number of projects .

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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. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

. “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise output per worker.” Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

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Cheryl Cran

MARCH 19, 2018

To be agile in today’s fast-paced, digital marketplace, leaders are shifting away from traditional hierarchical models and are restructuring to build dynamic networks of highly empowered teams. A new team-centric structure is arising among businesses and governments around the world, according to a recent Economist article.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 28, 2015

So there has been an amazing lack of innovation. The poster child for success is Atlassian , the tech company, which sold its product in 10 or 15 countries to dozens of large companies before an Australian company would buy any of its products. Do you think that Australia is perhaps falling behind in that area?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Millenials would say that trial, failure, innovation and being tech savvy are the best teachers. The future of work requires leaders who are agile and adaptive and a key component of being both agile and adaptive is the ability to be ‘coached’ or ‘mentored’ without ‘ego’. Power Home Remodeling of Chester, Penn.,

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Once one of the most innovative in its segments, the company lost its way in recent years. The CEO was interested in learning from smart moves as well as the mistakes that other companies had made in going from large to very large. The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S. It’s too big.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. To start to answer that question, let’s tally up the score. There are three types of products today.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Experiencing this for myself gives me that extra edge to ask the tough questions and challenge some of the sales pitches from agencies and tech companies trying to sell me that big campaign,” Blackshaw says.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 25, 2018

Technological innovation coupled with a ‘people first’ focus has the potential to completely transform our lives, our industries and ultimately the world. There’s no question we are living and working in head spinning times. Don’t believe me? Check out Peter Diamondis book, Abundance – The Future is Better Than You Think).

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. Let’s get started. . Digitalization in Aerospace Engineering: General Overview .

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. So the firm wanted to replicate that success in other places, namely India and China.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the present-day dynamic business environment, you should stay on top of all recent trends and be ready to implement innovations in your work. Experienced healthcare professionals will share insights into ensuring effective risk and resource management and timely project delivery thanks to applying project delivery innovations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But depending on one’s view of AI’s potential impact, the work described by these reports may be more influential on the long arc of history than the outcome of that election. Combined, the two reports include eighty-eight pages and twenty-five recommendations. Here are the highlights. AI policy should be an urgent concern.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

Upon graduation, he was proudly commissioned an Army officer and selected as a Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford, where he pursued a master’s degree in international relations. That was where the trouble began. It took the intervention of Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley to save Riley. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. Core Competencies. Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Today tech is the new oil, and it’s changing the game for producers of major commodities such as oil, coal, iron ore, natural gas, and copper. Automated haul trucks and drilling machines are being tested in mines across the world. In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

With so much information and technology at their fingertips, today’s consumers expect to get things done quickly and have their questions answered in an instant. The same could be said for modern marketers — expectations for their technology stack are on the rise too. Was there any single trend that stood out?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Today’s workforces are designed for speed and flexibility.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. and Create Your Successful Agile Project. I told several stories about this first job in Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization. He says later, “Stop making it harder.” The closer to the right?

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