Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

No longer can leaders coast along the same old paths; you need to reimagine the journey forward and invest in the leadership capabilities required to create more innovative, agile , and resilient teams and organizations. The Bottom Line Strategic plans should be living and evolving documents.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. Concentrate on the unique cultural factors that fuel success. They also responded to items that corresponded to the Leinwand et al. framework, as detailed below.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation requires enterprise alignment.

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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. CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). Advertise successes.

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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. But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? As he told us, “Creating a culture of performance and results is pivotal.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. The work of support and operating functions like finance, marketing, supply chain and human resources must change to leverage these technologies, and do so in a way that serves enterprise objectives, as well as the needs of individual businesses.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise. Start with yourself and your leadership team. Fight Through Discomfort for a New Culture. It’s nerve-wracking, frightening, anxiety-inducing. To do that, begin to shift your thinking.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Can a large incumbent company rediscover how to act like an agile start-up? Behaving like an agile start-up implies speed, a sharply defined mission, and a deep understanding of customers. When companies do find a way to recapture the insurgent energy of a start-up, it’s usually because leadership has emphasized two things.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Together, these structural and cultural factors lead to fragmented calendars and even fragmented hours during the day. With Agile approaches, teams focus on fewer, more critical activities. Weak time-management disciplines.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. And yet it is possible.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Mindset: Companies will create a profound shift in culture and ways of working. Changing operating models now is essential to claiming leadership in the digital age.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. But taking full advantage of it requires significant cultural changes.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. They report it energized them to work tirelessly for the company during his leadership tenure. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? Digital culture: Industrial businesses and digital businesses operate with completely different principles. That’s a tall order for an established enterprise. Ford or Tesla?

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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, before embarking on your digital transformation journey, it is a good idea to ask yourself the following questions: What could enterprise digital transformation mean for my business? If an organization’s leadership is willing to champion a transformation project, the chances of success have dramatically increased.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. The CEO immediately recognized the need to improve the culture and reenergize the organization. The CEO immediately recognized the need to improve the culture and reenergize the organization. CASE STUDY.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Does your organization have an enterprise architect or Chief Product Person? This image, from Agile and Lean Program Management , shows a small-world network. But, you say, the Enterprise Architect helps you. Here's the story of Pat, the Enterprise Architect. Pat, the Enterprise Architect, at Company 1.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. This is what enterprise alignment looks like. Enterprise purpose: What do we do and why do we do it?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The company grew through brilliant marketing, brand acquisitions, innovation and a decentralized geographic set of business units that helped create an entrepreneurial culture out in the markets. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities. 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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Whether it’s a larger enterprise or a new brand, our research found that being agile and working across business silos is key for marketers to find and engage the right audience and motivate them to action. Downey: Have you seen any trends that indicate larger companies have more of an advantage? Beaudin: No.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Essential reads on leadership and change for your library. The following list of 31 books on leadership and change is comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders. 31 books on leadership and change. The ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures.

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