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.

Agile 28

Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

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? Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Learn and experience how agile works.

Agile 33

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 33

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.

Software 52

Software ROI Efficiency Operations 52

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. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. The global/local tension.

Agile 50

Agile Analysis Apparel Resources 50

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

Automotive 50

Automotive Enterprise Operations Agile 50

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.

Industry 52

Industry SMB Software Talent 52

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.

Strategy 28

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. What is the front office? Other front-office departments may include public relations, marketing, and the contact center.

Efficiency 26

Efficiency Productivity How To Operations 26

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered. Productivity: IT teams can allocate their time to more important business tasks, rather than time-consuming IT management chores essential for on-site data centers. For one to succeed another does not have to fail.

Insurance 68

Insurance Insurance Data Enterprise 68

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation requires a new approach to strategy. A key tenet of digital transformation is the understanding that digital strategy no longer plays a supporting role for business strategy. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

Enterprise 28

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Today, digital competitors are using new business models to win, attracting and retaining consumers by reimagining products and services to meet consumers’ changing needs. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. An empowered consumer has changed the growth game.

Accenture 28

Accenture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

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.

Agile 48

Agile Energy Productivity Talent 48

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Global product teams and functions are overlaid onto the existing regional (commercial) organizations without adjustments in legacy P&L structures, creating unproductive friction. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

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?”,

Agile 52

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 52

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Or, are these companies failing the acid test for organization effectiveness, stumbling on execution brought about by lumbering, layered, and siloed organizational models, unsuited to delivering on diverse, global strategies?

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

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.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Can a large incumbent company rediscover how to act like an agile start-up? Behaving like an agile start-up implies speed, a sharply defined mission, and a deep understanding of customers. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. The second is focus. Insight center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

Agile 28

Agile Enterprise Exercises Energy 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

But who in your company is paying attention to how well aligned your strategy is with your organization’s purpose and capabilities? Consider for your own company: Practically, who at the enterprise level in your company is responsible for ensuring it’s as strategically aligned as possible? What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

Company 28

Company Enterprise System Leadership 28

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.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

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.

Industry 28

Industry Enterprise Boston Consulting Group Benchmarking 28

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.

Enterprise 38

Enterprise Education Methodologies Financial 38

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. Embracing an omnichannel strategy may seem like a big undertaking – indeed, making things effortless for customers often entails much hard work on the part of brands. Customers like options.

Tools 26

Tools Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

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.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

Banking 42

Banking Film Strategy Strategy 42

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.

Management 26

Management Operations Comparison Case Study 26

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.”

Marketing 41

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 41

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

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. Some of this new knowledge goes to create completely new products, like self-driving cars. Many would say that the company desperately needs to become more agile and adapt.

Company 28

Company Agile Research Journal 28

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.

Agile 37

Agile Data Development Industry 37

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

At IDEO, we believe that the most significant change often comes through social movements, and that despite the differences between private enterprises and society, leaders can learn from how these initiators engage and mobilize the masses to institutionalize new societal norms. Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study. .”

Culture 53

Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 53

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.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Sports Marketing Software 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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Nonprofit 91

Nonprofit Software Consulting System 91

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).

Industry 28

Industry Software Engineering Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It’s an enterprise-wide opportunity that’s critically important. We live in a world where more and more products are connected to the internet — not just computers and phones, but home appliances, alarm systems, and garage door openers. I discuss cybersecurity with hundreds of executives every year.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance System Data 28

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

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. A translator for a bigger, broader team.

Operations 28

Operations Data Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Is your content discoverable across product lines and business units? Is the legacy content in your organization easy to reuse across product and business lines? Reusability.

Media 28

Media Metrics Education Insurance 28