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

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Does your talent management strategy make it clear who is ultimately responsible for leadership succession planning?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. 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.

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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

MARCH 28, 2017

Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. However, the pace of global business now often precludes doing traditionally rigorous diligence.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. Learning from Big Companies.

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Henman Performance Executive

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Similarly, organizational stars hold high standards for themselves, so it makes sense that they will hold their places of employment to equally high metrics. Excellence, the overarching requirement for exceptional organizations, defines everything else: talent, culture, and strategy. Hire superior talent in key roles.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As the half-life of specific skills diminishes , and machines become proficient at tasks including even decision-making, then fundamentally human capabilities become more important: empathy, curiosity, creativity, imagination, emotional and social intelligence, leadership, and the development of other people.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Empowering talent. Firms are also able to source talent with some help from AI solutions, while cloud-based collaboration tools mean they’re not limited to hiring local candidates. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread. It should be a symbiotic relationship.

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