Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. At the internal launch event, Dr.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. IT modernization .

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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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 ). Big data provides organisations with the potential to achieve competitive advantage.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 18, 2016

One of the infographic statistics states that 68% of employees feel their company doesn’t create a culture in which employees have a sense of purpose and meaningful impact. The senior leadership of Omnitel made big and bold moves to shift the focus to transformation and to create a culture where everyone at all levels were valued.

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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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Eupnea Management Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Article Digital Adoption: A vital step in business transformation to achieve higher for your business Follow us on Linkedin: FOLLOW Over the course of the last decade, Digital could safely be regarded as the single reason for much of the change that has happened so extensively in our world, in business and society alike.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers. As remote operations experts, we scale and supercharge operations and provide tailored initiatives after we analyzed the status quo. Every week.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. They are also agile in course-correcting when the needs of the business change, and are more easily prepared to shift organizational resources to ensure that the strategy is executed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Based on my experience, here are three ways leaders can shift a company culture from a one-and-done focus on “training” employees in analytics to an “always on” focus on analytics adoption: Form competency centers. Let’s not kid ourselves — change is a difficult journey, and leading change requires a plan.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The world of payments remains in constant flux, reflecting an ongoing rebalancing of power among incumbent banks, digital giants, financial technology (fintech) startups, card networks, and, of course, consumers and merchants. Historically, transformation in the payments industry has tended to occur more like a crescendo than a big bang.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Finally, both the Operational Manager and Procurement Manager of Qemploy ‘s indirect client, an anonymous large scaled IT – consulting firm. Of course, he knew what he got, but he didn’t know what our price was.”. This is due to consultants being submerged into different teams and cultures.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. As he told us, “Creating a culture of performance and results is pivotal. customer advisory boards, executive sponsorship) as well as culture.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. The military’s solution has two parts: Commander’s Intent declares the purpose of an operation and the conditions for success. This means finding food, staying on course, and staying alive. Schools of fish do the same.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Cheating and cover-ups are natural byproducts of a top-down culture that does not accept “No” or “It can’t be done” for an answer. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. Formal training programs can teach high-potential leaders the competencies they need to think globally and manage cross-culturally.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” I have yet to see a standard job description for a Product Manager because each role is ultimately defined by the size, type of product, stage, industry, and even culture of the company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

“I want to hear about work, of course, but first tell me how Deniz and the girls are doing,” Sophie said. This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. “Of course, and I coached him through it. That’s the agile way to do it.” “So what? .”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Other areas, however, may benefit from standardized approaches.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. The issue, of course, is that these deals are rooted in tactical urgency rather than strategic awareness.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. This is a huge differentiator: Despite the general recognition of the crucial contribution of implementation to organizational success, 62 percent of survey respondents admitted that implementation is seen as an operational task as opposed to a strategic one.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

It’s tempting, of course, to default to the same vacation each year: your family’s cabin, a familiar beach town, your favorite city, that resort the kids loved. The result is personal growth — greater emotional agility, empathy, and creativity. joshua sortino/Unsplash.

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