LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Foster a Culture of Agility For organizational change to last, top leadership must cultivate a workplace culture that embraces change and innovation so that employees can adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities. Can your leaders encourage the agile mindsets at work required to successfully navigate change ?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks. This is when organizational change agility comes into play. You will need to course correct to stay on track. Does everyone know what to do and when in the next 90-days?

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Keep the big picture in view.Once the leadership team fully agrees on the vision , mission , values , success metrics, and strategic priorities , you must also agree upon not only the path that will get you there but also how work will get done from a cultural perspective to best execute the strategy. Include a Caveat. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jira: Main Capabilities and Advantages Jira is agile project management software intended to plan and orchestrate software development projects. The solution is also used for managing other types of projects, e.g., for any Agile teams, product development, or bug tracking teams. Supporting Agile approach.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. Positive emotions are important in their own right, of course.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.” By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models. They are selling performance, not hardware.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. Of course, the prize for middle managers here is huge — once leaders are sufficiently clear and prescriptive about these macro questions, middle managers can get on with implementing them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” We were struck by the dissonance with the ambition — if you want to be more innovative and agile and anything could happen, isn’t that a truly brilliant notion? Participative Execution.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

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. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers. You and Your Team Series.

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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?” Defining and tracking success metrics. There are of course many other factors to consider for any role such as the type of product you are building (B2B, B2C, industry, etc.),

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Move quickly to correct course, reprioritize, and remove roadblocks. Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones. Follow your decisions through to delivery. Commit to making strategic decisions rapidly.

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