LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

Yet, the traditional approach to strategy typically assumes modest shifts in markets, competitors, partners, strategies, cultures, and talent. Invest in Creating a Resilient Culture Your strategy must go through your people and your workplace culture to be successfully implemented.

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Culture Agile Leadership Strategy Development 36

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. Do You Need to Implement Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2024

And while top talent certainly helps, achieving success at work is rarely an individual endeavor — it’s a collective journey fueled by the power of teams. A Research-Backed 5-Step Team Effectiveness Framework What propels some teams towards peak performance and sustainable success? Many factors contribute to winning teams.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Surprisingly, evidence from research suggests that proximity is not the critical determinant of communication effectiveness. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Today's leaders face a growing number of cross-cultural differences when working with customers and employees.

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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

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy? To succeed, we believe that it’s time to rethink and upgrade your strategy to meet the current and future challenges. 3 Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy.

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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. This takes time.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, recent research by McKinsey found that organizations that mastered two or more diversified strategic growth initiatives grew faster than their peers. The interesting part of the McKinsey research is that the highest growth companies employ multiple growth strategies simultaneously. Misaligned and Underestimated Cultural Norms.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. Just like Aesop’s fable about the good and the golden egg, we have seen leaders increase current earnings at the expense of long-term competitive position, lose top talent at the expense of immediate projects, and take shortcuts that created long-term product problems.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

In a literature review of 81 executive coaching studies, researchers [link] found that executive coaching positively impacts the leader and the organization. Culture is acutely critical during notable change, such as M&A, and executive leaders increasingly work with and lead multicultural teams.

Emotional Intelligence 52

Emotional Intelligence Leadership Ethics Study 52

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2019

Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. Some will need research and time to become accustomed to the code and test base. Flow Efficiency Changes the Culture. An agile approach to product planning and delivery takes talented people time to do well.

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Productivity Agile Efficiency Strategy 60

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our research shows that a company’s ability to gain strategic clarity on its path to business model transformation is crucial to its success. But whatever the extent of an organization’s digital ambition, our research shows most corporate strategists tend to play it safe, favoring incremental investments.

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Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2019

According to CEB research, a whopping 60% of new managers under perform during their first two years, and not surprisingly, 85% of new managers still receive no formal training prior to switching into the role of manager. Do you know the role and responsibility of a new manager at your company? The Challenge for New Managers Today.

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Management Training Training Agile 36

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. How talent management is changing. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. Project Credibility.

Emotional Intelligence 28

Emotional Intelligence Talent Culture Leadership 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We built on this research by going beyond the lens of the individual leader to investigate how the most successful teams bridge the gap. 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.

Strategy 49

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Agile organizations are connected organizations.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 11, 2018

Research by Cloverpop states that decisions are 87% more successful when made by teams. Teams that follow an inclusive process of diverse generational input along with diverse gender/personality/cultural input make decisions two times faster and cut meeting times in half. The days of the lone wolf are long gone.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

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Energy Agile Survey Training 49

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work. Research led by our Agile Talent Collaborative points out that project leads who manage freelancers don’t give enough specific feedback.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

Executives and their teams are now expected to advancing multiple products simultaneously with specific target and stretch goals in every stage of the research and development process from increasing the number of new molecular entities identified to robust lifecycle management. Job Relevance. Satisfaction. 117% Knowledge Gain.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It takes a major cultural shift in the company. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. Not all corporations need an agile methodology or this approach to metrics.

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Methodologies Agile Metrics Exercises 28

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. The specific domains of capability and performance were based on previous research , including: Team structure. Most team leaders try to build cohesion on their teams.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Culture Agile Leadership 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Agile innovation teams are small.

Retail 28

Retail Agile Sales Engineering 28

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Conclusion.

Management 60

Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Conclusion.

Management 60

Management Guidelines Change Management Study 60

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

In my research and consultancy with companies, I observe that, oftentimes, no individual or group is functionally responsible for overseeing the arrangement of their company from end to end. The best performing companies are often the best aligned. The answer should not be “the CEO” or “the Chairman” or the equivalent.

Company 28

Company Enterprise System Leadership 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “Ask about the corporate culture,” she says.

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Cash Flow Talent Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Think for a moment about people as tiny enterprises.

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Efficiency Sales Agile Enterprise 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. “The market research from Capital is promising. “He hates change.”

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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.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

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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