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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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Learn and experience how agile works.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Bringing customers and providers together is becoming more common.

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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail

Harvard Business

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. Transforming a relatively simple idea into a $19 billion windfall, it turns out, was more about solving problems with the tools at hand than inventing new solutions from scratch. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static.

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How to Help the Employees You Gain in a Merger Succeed

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The firm knew it had to build its internal design capabilities and believed its newly merged team represented an agile shortcut superior to hiring digital design agencies or recruiting people to build a department. ” Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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How to Create an Exponential Mindset

Harvard Business

The music and video industries, for example, weren’t redefined by converting analog to digital formats. Sponsored by Accenture. Grow: Agility and Control. When growth kicks in, agility comes from empowering others and letting go without losing control. Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer. Insight Center.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business

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. They spread the word through videos and other means. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.