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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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 4, 2024

From startups venturing into uncharted territories to established enterprises seeking innovative strategies, here’s a comprehensive look at the benefits and invaluable assistance that marketing consulting services offer. Marketing consulting benefits businesses of all sizes and types.

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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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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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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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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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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

This means that most enterprises don’t have many staff dedicated to research. The ability to interpret data can be useful in many contexts, and allow young professionals to learn in a more self-directed, flexible, and agile way. How can the ability to interpret research papers put young professionals a step ahead?

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

The program was designed as an intensive experiential development journey, fostering agility in self-awareness and self-development, the capability to positively influence others, and to serve as an effective enterprise change leader. The overarching structure contained three segments: leading self, leading others, and leading change.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to honing in on individual business units or lines of business, a few questions can help clarify tradeoff decisions and ensure an enterprise view: How unique are the businesses? Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? What is the right level of integration? Organization Shape.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Existing solutions, particularly those that have been around for decades and have woven themselves into processes all over the enterprise, can be surprisingly sticky. One of the almost ubiquitous risks of any digital transformation initiative revolves around the legacy technology the project will either augment or replace.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Let me tell you, our large enterprise clients’ processes are highly dependent upon software. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Enterprise Processes. Agile Enterprise.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And even within individual categories, you’ll find a diverse cross-section of SMBs, multinational enterprises, boutique firms, and even solo freelancers – plus a wide range of business models and organizational structures. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. High performing executives set the stage by setting company-wide goals and ensuring that silos and back-channeling at work are not permitted.

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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

While effective leadership mindsets depend on the circumstances, examples of types of leadership mindsets that can be assessed include: growth, inclusive, agile, enterprise, builder, chameleon, egoist, sociopath, responsible, daring, ambitious, appreciative, politically savvy, virtuous, confident, humble, ruthless, and caring.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. And you need to go to those meetings to pass judgment on their decisions, prevent people from making mistakes, and in general guide everyone's work. Or some other title.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2016

On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. Customers and clients demand greater agility, and employees and partners expect greater empowerment. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Cloud vendors, such as Microsoft Azure , are investing in building open tooling for enterprise blockchain networks , which will see widespread adoption of blockchain in the enterprise. Furthermore, many believe the cloud will make it easy for businesses to build blockchain applications. For one to succeed another does not have to fail.

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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. The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team’s success.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use throughout the web and increasingly within the enterprise, handling everything from initial call screening for sales prospects to scheduling. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Artificial intelligence.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

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] ). In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation requires enterprise alignment. Digital transformation presents immense commercial opportunities, but even when an enterprise recognizes the potential, it is not guaranteed. Find out in this.

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BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Instead, the short-comings are in leadership, the resolve to change, and the skills needed to reshape the organization around new approaches such as agile. At the other extreme, some companies initiate enterprise-wide digital transformations, but they lack focus and accountability.

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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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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is tremendously powerful for agile and successful decision-making! For instance, suppose you are top-notch in providing enterprise applications for the institutional investment industry. One of your developers broaches the idea of an application that could benefit individual investors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. In what Gartner calls a third era of enterprise IT, existing investments must be rebalanced and combined with new, disruptive technologies. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. As organization designers this trend intrigues us.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? Results from our research indicate that while concepts like internal cohesion and psychological safety are important to team performance, they are not the most critical at the enterprise level. What are the key tensions? Both are pivotal to ongoing success.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Advances in platform technology are helping organizations make strides toward long-standing goals of agility, simplicity, and cost savings. The transformation of platforms from complex and expensive stacks of hardware into flexible computing resources represents a major step toward enabling business agility. Click HERE.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

But IT’s impact on the enterprise is raised to a whole new level when an organization introduces advanced analytics and redoubles its focus on information. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. That’s still true.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. The collision of the physical and digital worlds has affected every dimension of society, commerce, enterprises, and individuals. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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