Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For most hedge funds, 2016 was a difficult year. Although the stock market rose to all-time highs, hedge funds returned just 3%. This continued the trend of the previous five years, during which US hedge funds were outperformed by stock and bond markets. But market conditions did not help.

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BCG

APRIL 14, 2016

Focus Thursday, April 14, 2016. Executives at most companies criticize it as overly bureaucratic, insufficiently insightful, and ill suited for today’s rapidly changing markets. Faced with those odds, it doesn’t make sense to put all your chips on agility. Agility is great, but it’s more powerful when paired with preparedness.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Over the past 15 years, Europe’s full-service airlines have flown through turbulent skies as they generally failed to adapt to an increasingly price-competitive short-haul market. Lately, the combination of rising demand and falling fuel costs has lifted profits.

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BCG

AUGUST 30, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 30, 2016. But no cost-efficient bank can have a leading presence in every market. 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.

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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.

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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. For example, they may become adept at digital marketing but not at digital customer support.

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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. You need to do some market research and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations to determine the size of the target market, whether there is sufficient demand for the solution, and how much potential customers may be willing to pay.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Article Monday, September 26, 2016. They must practice hard, though, to develop and deliver a superior end-to-end customer experience, drive agile product development, and leverage application programming interfaces (APIs). Below, we take a regional look at how incumbents in retail payments can excel in an increasingly digital world.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The problem is that the intended outcomes and commitments to the market might be negatively affected, harming the reputation of the organization. But combine that with a minor delay in raw material delivery and throw in a sudden but not surprising market fluctuation, and you have a perfect storm. Adaptive planning becomes crucial here.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search for the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea — certainly not one that depends on technology alone. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all. Insight Center.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. businesses. firms since the 1980s. Less than 0.5%

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” This approach helped Connected Home’s Hive “smart thermostat” device become a market leader in just a few years. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Besides exposing existing markets, a TAP mindset uncovers potential opportunities before there’s a market for them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The fact that sharing has become so popular means that long-established companies cannot close themselves off to the changing forces of the market. hour) Instagram marketing ($31.23/hour). 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

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility. But over time the market changes and the company needs to change its model. We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

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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. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. But there may be more to the metaphor. Does biology inform business?

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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). and China. and China.

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