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 53

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

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

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). Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

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.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Culture Agile Leadership 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. How can productivity be increased with real-time information in context? Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model? How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform.

Agile 28

Agile Data Enterprise Software 28

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

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?

Company 28

Company Enterprise System Leadership 28

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. Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market.

Accenture 28

Accenture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

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.

Metrics 45

Metrics Survey Software Operations 45

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

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., Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

For example, the consumer durable goods manufacturer (example two) chose to push its data and analytics across a broad swath of the enterprise, even though the business momentum was in the areas of product connectivity and consumer engagement. Each of these four models has pros and cons — and not all of them work equally well.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

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.

Banking 49

Banking Film Strategy Strategy 49

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

Think for a moment about people as tiny enterprises. They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing).

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Sales Agile Enterprise 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

Agile 28

Agile Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. Consider Jet.com founder Marc Lore: Walmart paid $3.3

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Learning from Big Companies.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Do we have the right talent to analyze and act on that information? For example, devices like home assistants and wearables provide new signals to help marketers better understand how and when people are looking for answers to questions or researching products. How can we create relevant experiences while respecting their privacy?

Data 28

Data Marketing Bain Media 28

Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Whatever their circumstances, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup’s research were those who excelled at turning each individual employee’s talent into high performance.”. Technologies, products, and economies constantly change. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Quiet by Susan Cain. The Core 4 by Robert Weiler.

Leadership 52

Leadership Culture Case Interview Company 52