Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Recent research has shown that data-driven scenario planning is essential for businesses to bounce forward from the impact of Covid-19. By adopting a more agile, data-centric approach to decision-making, your organization can shift its priorities towards flexible methodologies that can improve its resiliency.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. European Journal of Training and Development, 41(3), 241-260. Zigarmi, D., &

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Like most leadership development opportunities, you will get the most significant return when you do the work. I also have clients working on becoming more self-aware and developing trust-based relationships. An executive coach ensures development goals are purposeful and bring perspective to the best areas to focus.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The idea was revolutionary for new manager training. But often, people leaders don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be and struggle building meaningful connections with their people to drive consistent results. It’s not for lack of trying or wanting to be great leaders.

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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. Think of a manager’s role as comprised of the 5 stages highlighted in our new manager training : Planning.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. Consider the case of a software development company. After all, they did research upfront and got solid data. They can be frustrating.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. Consider the case of a software development company. After all, they did research upfront and got solid data. They can be frustrating.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A More Compassionate Leader Of all the traits that you want to develop as a leader, where does compassion fit in? When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs We know from our action learning leadership development programs that all leaders make mistakes. Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. We also know that what matters is how they handle them. Can your leaders balance production and production capability?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change-agile leaders demonstrate five integrated behaviors that, together, create a competitive advantage for the organization.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Again, business leaders will need to prepare employees to make the most of the latest tech and provide ongoing support and training. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience.

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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. Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

While working as a director of learning and organization development at Google, eBay and J.P. More than five decades of research point to the fact that resilience is built by attitudes, behaviors and social supports that can be adopted and cultivated by anyone. In fact, burnout is a lagging indicator of chronic stress.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. And research shows that once women and people of color join tech companies, retention rates are much lower than that of white men, often due to bad treatment in the workplace. Native American, 18.1%

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2018

In recent years, we’ve come to associate the practice of innovation with speed and agility, but accomplishments that truly move the needle can’t be achieved quickly or through mere iteration. One reason for the emphasis on agility and iteration in recent decades is that technology has been fairly stable.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. That “expert” was a member of the research team. Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the past, leaders prioritized developing one product at a time. Execution Excellence Deliver results with accountability, resiliency, and composure while handling uncertainty , ambiguity, and dealing with interconnected system dynamics — including developing others to do the same. Job Relevance. Satisfaction. 117% Knowledge Gain.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. Part skunkworks, part research lab, Experian DataLabs keeps a running list of the data problems customers want them to solve. They must serve the present.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests.

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In an ILM research report it found that in the future of work teams will need to be agile, communication will need to be swift and decisions will need to be made quickly. Provide training and development for existing leaders and all non leaders on evolutionary leadership skills. What can you do now to be future ready now?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. As organizations grow and become more global, it’s crucial that they develop these skills in their local talent so that they can work effectively across cultures. For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This approach stands in stark contrast to the views advanced by organizations that focus specifically on AGI such as the Future of Life Institute at MIT, the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. However, developing the Ph.D.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Artificial intelligence and generative design.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

My own experience as a consultant, supported by recent research , indicates a different view: firms that hire an army of data scientists do not always generate better bottom-line value. This applies to all parts of the organization from marketing and business development to HR. Another case is Unilever.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. One global steel company, for example, is training 300 managers in a one-year learning program.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

There are a variety of reasons why this is so difficult: We’ve been trained to believe that strong emotions should be suppressed. James Pennebaker has done 40 years of research into the links between writing and emotional processing. If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.) Write it out.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. You also have to train employees to understand and respect them. Some leading-edge companies are already offering formal civility training. Jakob Owens/Unsplash. We all want to come to work and be treated with kindness and respect.

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