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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies. This story is not unique.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. ” In these situations, advocating greater patience or more persuasive business cases isn’t likely to help. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Agile Enterprise. For Infosys Inc.,

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business

The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Interview those individuals for fit. To act on this opportunity, the company encouraged each employee, on a volunteer basis, to make his or her “unique contribution” to improving the agility of the supply chain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How to Help the Employees You Gain in a Merger Succeed

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The business case is almost too clear; the acqui-hired team is not so much building new capabilities as it is applying its talents to fix a broken process or fill in a product/service features gap. Consider the case of a large Midwestern financial services firm that was struggling to compete online.