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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. They received early success because of the early American desire for big vehicles that could travel over any terrain in the world. They were not agile enough.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. The question really is: Can digital natives develop software-enabled solutions that siphon off significant value from industrial hardware? Ford or Tesla? The answer is “yes.” ” But it won’t be easy.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do.

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How to Create an Exponential Mindset

Harvard Business

uses digital technology) but doesn’t actually operate digitally (i.e. In the launch phase of a business, the team needs to develop and refine the business model. That’s how things work in the physical world when we are traveling to a destination. Grow: Agility and Control. achieves accelerating returns).

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

For instance, in the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, processing a car through the paint shop is a 12-hour task, involving more than 100 robots, and requiring a vehicle in the paint assembly line to travel four miles within the factory before the process is complete.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. The challenges facing NASA.