BCG

AUGUST 12, 2016

Article Friday, August 12, 2016. Yet management often viewed these methods—based on principles set out in 2001 in the Agile Manifesto—as untested and maybe even a bit wonky. The future of IT is one speed: all-agile. It’s not just because agile’s footprint is expanding to industries like banking and insurance.

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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. AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0. Goodwin University. Deloitte.

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BCG

MARCH 22, 2017

Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. See “The End of Two-Speed IT,” BCG article, August 2016.) Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. In addition, DevOps puts heavy emphasis on automation.

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Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Your company must meet the dual challenges of focus and agility.

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BCG

JUNE 30, 2016

Article Thursday, June 30, 2016. Moreover, their open-source architecture can foster greater agility and innovation. Moreover, their open-source architecture can foster greater agility and innovation. But will operators strike gold with these technologies?

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. See “Simplifying IT to Accelerate Digital Transformation,” BCG article, April 2016.)

Telecommunications 61

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BCG

MAY 5, 2016

Video Thursday, May 05, 2016. Imagine that these giants are quickly followed by a multitude of agile new entrants. Imagine a world in which digital giants have unconstrained access to hundreds of millions of individual bank accounts.

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BCG

APRIL 14, 2016

Focus Thursday, April 14, 2016. Some even argue that strategic planning is a relic that should be relegated to the past and that organizations seeking to prosper in turbulent times should instead invest in market intelligence and agility. Faced with those odds, it doesn’t make sense to put all your chips on agility.

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BCG

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For most hedge funds, 2016 was a difficult year. If market conditions improve in 2017, performance may bounce back and the recent woes of hedge funds may prove to be little more than a blip in the funds’ extraordinary 25-year trajectory—during which their AuM increased 74-fold, from $40 billion in 1990 to $3 trillion in 2016.

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Article Monday, December 12, 2016. 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. Companies’ lifespans are shorter than ever before. See Exhibit 1.).

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BCG

AUGUST 30, 2016

Article Tuesday, 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. Revenues from trade finance now total approximately $50 billion a year.

Finance 74

Finance Banking Agile Efficiency 74

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. Rutledge,R., Marshall.L., Bestmann,S. Evidence-based HRM.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. Rutledge,R., Marshall.L., Bestmann,S. Evidence-based HRM.

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Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. All kinds of airlines—from legacy FSCs to low-cost carriers large and small—need to come to grips with issues of scale, costs, and operating flexibility in an environment that demands ever more efficiency and agility. Lately, the combination of rising demand and falling fuel costs has lifted profits.

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BCG

APRIL 18, 2016

Article Monday, April 18, 2016. To fight back, traditional companies need to become much more agile, by shortening time to market and delivering IT services more quickly; flexible, by scaling IT volume up and down quickly, for example; and efficient, by reducing IT costs. Corporate IT functions are being hit with a one-two punch.

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BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Article Thursday, October 27, 2016. Instead, the short-comings are in leadership, the resolve to change, and the skills needed to reshape the organization around new approaches such as agile. Our main message in this report is that TMT companies need to transform.

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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.

Company 41

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

According to Deloitte, 92% of the 26,000 blockchain-based projects created since 2016 are now dead. Teams need to be agile and ready to adapt as new information is received. Many startups are also trying to create blockchain based solutions for problems that can be solved better without blockchain. Conducting a field trial.

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BCG

JUNE 10, 2016

Article Friday, June 10, 2016. What is often left out of that discussion, however, is the need for a modern IT backbone to make the digital revolution possible and to support the ever-increasing need for agility, real-time information, and customization of services. Certainly, that shift is real and transformational.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Focus Monday, November 21, 2016. For companies that get this right, the reward will be more confident frontline leaders, more productive teams, more satisfied customers, a more agile organization, and a huge boost in financial performance for the company overall. But he’s also nervous because he’s never managed employees before.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics). In January 2016, Ash (not her real name) turned up in Emergency for pain and severe difficulty walking. After the neurological admission in 2016, Ash was referred to the Agile Psychological Medicine Clinic.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A 2016 HBR Analytics survey of 385 managers revealed that most executives were frustrated with planning because they believed that speed was important and that plans frequently changed anyway. The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

I call this the psychological center of gravity , a grounding mechanism (part of your mental “six-pack”) that helps you enhance your agility and manage change more effectively too. In this state, your sense of “self” is enhanced—which, according to Warren Bennis , is the essence of leadership.

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Energy Agile Leadership Exercises 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. L’Oréal now spends 32% of its net media budget on digital channels, and saw e-commerce sales jump by 33% in 2016 alone. ” These new skills are delivering results.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 44

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. A 2015 report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimated the digital economy would contribute $4 trillion to the GDP of countries in the G-20 during 2016, and would continue to grow at a rate of 10 percent per year. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. In a wonderful bit of symbolism, it is located in the historic Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In 2016 we asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries and 25 industries where they focus their attention throughout strategic execution. The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” This would be a mistake.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights. While most firms associate the consequential costs of these types of events as their risk, EvD is a subtler figure, which is revealed in persistent loss scenarios.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Newport, 2016, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World) This leaves employees with little control over their workdays - which reduces productivity even further. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Move from an established company to an agile company How many meetings have you been attending were the same topics pop up over and over again? “We We need to be more digital and agile; those who do not change will not survive!” “How do we create a more agile organization?” But how do you do that?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). issuing driver’s licenses) as well as complex applications such as cybersecurity (lower cost, more agile) and weapon systems (safer, more humane).

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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. Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

The scale of the Yahoo breach disclosed in 2016 , combined with the fumbling response , cost the company and its shareholders $350 million in its merger with Verizon and nearly scuttled the entire deal. Instead of “risk management,” we propose thinking of it as “risk agility.” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. They are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. References: [1] “Never Say I Know” and the Limitations of our (Reasonable) Knowledge , Eli Schragenheim (2016). [2] 2] The TOC contribution to Healthcare , Eli Schragenheim (2016). [3]

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