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AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s why it’s critical to keep both front and back office operations running smoothly and effectively. Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. Learn more.

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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. The global/local tension. Many companies have a mix of global, regional, and local brands.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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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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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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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines.

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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. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments).

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Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

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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. It needs a strategic solution.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Discipline and Focus. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. And yet it is possible. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

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Banking Film Strategy Strategy 49

QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

On the client side, Kristian Skjellerup, Director of IT, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Compliance & Controlling at Falck. Finally, both the Operational Manager and Procurement Manager of Qemploy ‘s indirect client, an anonymous large scaled IT – consulting firm. There is a split in opinions.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Increase workforce productivity by optimizing the skill set of your workforce while shifting routine work away. Sensitivity to operations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. ” 4.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They want to choose how to customize their products, services, and even the channels in which they interact with brands. Based on that data, build an agile and insight-driven service delivery model. Extend the CX journey across the enterprise Looking at the big picture is key. Customers like options.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even so, many project-driven organizations still operate with a bevy of spreadsheets in a siloed environment. Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Accelerate operational impact. Ensure business agility.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs. Focusing on one at the expense of the other is no longer a choice.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

Think for a moment about people as tiny enterprises. Some of the tradeoffs that are most suited to digital transcendence are: Big and small: Combine the speed, agility and creativity of being small with the scope, scale and influence associated with being big. Customers don’t think in straight lines.

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