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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

For example, a hierarchical corporate culture type is proven to decrease an organization's ability to innovate (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. HarperCollins Publishers.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. Rather, they seek to optimize a failing model.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. Mostly, the focus is on efficiency: cost and profitability per square foot, vacancy rates, maintenance overhead. Enduring Value Beyond Efficiency.