Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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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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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.

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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. A common strategy is created by representatives of the network and is broadly communicated.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Strategy and Capabilities. Many organizations have a compelling, inspirational strategy supported by organizational capabilities. When making cuts, take the appropriate time necessary to make sound decisions.

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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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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. You might even need to locate and provide training on the legacy platform if your modernization strategy doesn’t encompass a complete removal. They’re a safety net.

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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). IT Strategy.

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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.

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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. Firms should expect to continuously monitor and improve their strategy – incorporating client feedback as it comes in.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Agree Upon the Needed Leadership Mindsets Once you agree that leadership mindsets are an important component of higher performance, your next step is to identify and prioritize the needed leadership mindsets to best execute your strategy going forward. Do you know what mindsets will propel your strategy and your people forward?

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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. Take the subscriber-first strategy of The New York Times.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered. 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. Image: Pexels.

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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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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.

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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

MAY 18, 2018

Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market. These seven transformative characteristics are essential in three main areas of an operating model.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Companies do not become more global just because they have added worldwide product and brand teams, or global functions and councils, to manage centrally driven growth strategies and programs. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

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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?

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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?

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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. Leaders set strategy. The second is focus. Insight center.

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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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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. 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.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Call it a “leave no one behind” strategy. You could have the best strategy and the latest technologies, but you can’t execute if your people lack the right digital skills. That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise.

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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?

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1 to 1

AUGUST 11, 2015

The role of the CIO has evolved in recent years from a focus on helping the organization to reduce costs to enabling the enterprise to grow revenue and become more agile in responding to changing customer behaviors and market shifts.

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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.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Look for a partner with in-house specialists in a wide range of technologies and skillsets, an extensive partner ecosystem of their own, various support models, and the flexibility and scalability to meet your enterprise needs. To make the decision process easier, ask yourself these questions first. It needs a strategic solution.

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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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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. .”

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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. It then built a phenomenal business around consulting services that helped design, build and maintain sophisticated systems for enterprises. Agility is overrated.

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