Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking. The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many enterprises use “digital” to change how they interact with clients, but that’s too limiting. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The digital wave has impacted every possible industry and stirred ripples across the globe. Along with their deep industry knowledge, digital experts also bring added organizational flexibility to projects as they can hit the ground running from day one. What key processes need to be digitalized?

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. Highly regulated industries typically have more centralized oversight functions.

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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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. ERP software coordinates the flow of data between a company’s business processes, providing a single source of truth and streamlining operations across the enterprise. Ensure business agility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Dealing with today’s digital disruption begins by understanding how it differs from past industry changes. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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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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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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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Agile Enterprise.

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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. For this reason, any reticence the insurance industry showed early on has been replaced with a holistic embrace of trusted cloud platforms.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Because each corporate strategy and marketplace is unique, the leadership mindsets required for a company to succeed (even in the same industry) can be very different. Do you know what mindsets will propel your strategy and your people forward? Do you know the mindsets of your current leaders?

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To succeed in the digital economy, companies in these industries are finding it necessary to make a shift. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail. Team results.

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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. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

As a result, you can timely update your products to be one of the best in your industry. Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Good Product Portfolio Management Contributes to Better Resource Utilization. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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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. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. That’s still true.

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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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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Regional Clusters (P&L, plus infrastructure).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

The firm knew it had to build its internal design capabilities and believed its newly merged team represented an agile shortcut superior to hiring digital design agencies or recruiting people to build a department. In fact, he said, his team’s successes led to loosening some of the more restrictive enterprise practices.).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Outsourcing business processes and tasks can free up employees to focus on more complex or valuable work; it can extend resources, such as sales support, for targeting new or underserved markets; support new product and service rollouts; and provide expertise within a specific industry focus. What are managed services?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. The Adoption of Cloud Technology Across Industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A global consumer durable goods manufacturer’s industry is seeing business-model transformation, disruption, and a pronounced technological shift in its relationship with its customers. First is a central function versus agility and integration of embedded functions (with a COE where analytics teams can learn from each other).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

” He offered the both the railroad companies and Hollywood studios as examples of industries that failed to adapt because they defined their business incorrectly. That can’t be done through agility alone, but takes years of preparation to achieve. One company that’s become famous for its agility is Google.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change. ” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. .” Industrial Revolution.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed. The reason?

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. The newest robots, 3-D printing systems, and data-mining hardware and services were all there along with a host of people hyping Industry 4.0, A translator for a bigger, broader team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

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. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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