Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

And Susan David's Emotional Agility adds an important dimension to our understanding of how we can align our behaviors with our values and intentions. Goodyear, offers valuable insight on how lessons learned about cross-disciplinary collaboration on the battlefield can be applied in the boardroom.

Leadership 53

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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BCG

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Focus Thursday, February 16, 2017. To be successful in today’s complex and fast-changing world, companies must be highly agile and flexible—able to identify opportunities and make informed decisions quickly in order to exploit those opportunities. Businesses compete in a world that is growing ever more complex.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive. References: Amrollahi, A., & & Rowlands, B.

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BCG

JULY 16, 2017

Article Monday, July 17, 2017 Companies that adopt agile ways of working are five times more likely to enjoy faster growth and higher profits than their peers. Several other elements of good organization design can also help.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Cultural agility is vital because, with over 60 global society cultures identified and numerous variations in regions within the national cultures, it is virtually impossible to be experienced in every situation. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Tell Stories.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This tendency can have significant consequences in a workplace reliant on knowledge sharing and interpersonal communication for organizational agility, underscoring the heightened importance of fostering psychological safety (Edmondson, 2018). “A Journal of Intergenerational Relationships , 17 (1), 1–24. link] Newman, A.,

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BCG

JUNE 8, 2017

Article Thursday, June 08, 2017 The World Bank turned to agile methodologies, implemented from the bottom up, to improve operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Operations head Kyle Peters describes the challenges and successes.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. wages) into a variable cost (i.e.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

So with customers expecting more personalized, agile, and on-demand delivery, insurers are now racing to keep pace and deliver more relevant solutions for a changing user landscape. This speed and agility allows the insurance industry to match stride with would be disruptors in the digital age. Inability to attract new customers.

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BCG

MARCH 22, 2017

Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. DevOps calls for some staff from IT operations, which traditionally works apart from developers, to be brought onto cross-functional agile teams.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed. How strong are the follower's demonstrated or transferable task knowledge and skills? How motivated is the follower toward the task? Zigarmi, D., &

Management 52

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

Article Thursday, March 09, 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. There’s a big opportunity for digital suppliers out there, but unlocking the challenge is not an easy task. Companies “get it.”

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Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017.

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BCG

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Article Tuesday, February 07, 2017. 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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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

VC funding for blockchain start-ups has consistently grown, with venture investment reaching around $1 billion in 2017 (and likely to be more than double that amount in 2018). Teams need to be agile and ready to adapt as new information is received. This phase may require substantial funding as it involves experimentation and testing.

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Intellectual Property Data Deloitte Energy 60

LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. Recent Research on Compassion Awakening Compassion at Work by Monica Worline and Jane Dutton was published in 2017.

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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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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. 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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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Could we make growth more inclusive?” ” That’s a huge question, and I hope it’s a catalytic one.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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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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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 35

Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Much of the welcome recent innovation in management practice has come from the fringes – new communities and groups developing approaches such as the agile (or Scrum) movement, design thinking, lean-startup methodologies and beyond-budgeting approaches, among others. But collectively we have all we need to do this over time. ”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Net revenue hit an all-time high in 2017, and profits rose for the third consecutive year. Gerald Lord/Getty Images. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Traditional budgetary systems prevent clinical and ancillary departments from being agile and responsive to innovative technologies that deliver performance improvements for patient care. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Throughout the first year of operation of this model, which began in full in April 2017, the range and breadth of issues addressed was extensive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. But with oil producers in North America expanding output, prices are likely to remain volatile. No one will be able to afford to stand still.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 17, 2024

For example, booking in time for things that renew and reenergise you during the change. Spirituality – attributing happenings in life, including adversity, to a higher force such as God or fate. Isabella, L.A. Evolving interpretations as change unfolds: How managers construe key organizational events.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

2nd Lieutenant Riley’s background is any employer’s dream, and his retention in the armed forces is a good thing for the Department of Defense, the organization I had the honor to lead from 2015 to 2017. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Yet, when it comes to HR and employment, CEOs, boards, and others can overlook basic personnel tasks, being attracted by bright, shiny objects like agile culture, holacracy, best-place-to-work lists, or a cool physical space.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change. 5] Once in Red, Always in Red , Albert Ponsteen (2017). [6] This data-driven approach builds robustness and adaptability, ensuring that project plans are efficient and effective.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Innovation: Embracing Agile. Have a restful holiday, and we’ll see you in 2017. I highly recommend saving and reading any you haven’t already read! Managing people: Let Your Workers Rebel. Sales & Marketing: The Elements of Value. Strategy: Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy.

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