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Rule of Thumb #2: Use Behavioral Lenses to Innovate and Adapt to Changes

Steve Shu Consulting

There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Harvard Business Press, 2015. In the case of Secure Act 2.0, one way to look at this is in terms of an exogeneous event that constituents have to react to (e.g.,

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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Advanced Practitioner Workshop

Kates Kesler

Dec 9-10, 2015. The workshop will focus on frameworks and tools for activating sophisticated global/local strategies, including: Establishing one anchor operating-unit layer of organization and a single value-added layer for consolidating most infrastructure. Advanced Practitioner Workshop. New York University. Kimmel Center.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” 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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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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