Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Talent management and organization design are powerful allies. Organizational redesigns are windows of opportunity to upgrade talent. Organizational redesigns are windows of opportunity to upgrade talent. Great talent can overcome poor organization design. Here are some examples that are worthy of attention.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As an example, just look at legacy consulting. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. For example, IoT and real-time data streaming can help companies optimize their supply chains – enabling them to act in the event disaster strikes or there’s a bottleneck that could cause delays. Empowering talent.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Just take a look at the pandemic, for example. Retaining existing employees is far more cost-efficient than hiring and training new talent. Enhanced Organizational Agility If there’s one thing that the pandemic showed us, it’s that adapting to changing market dynamics is essential.

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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. Translating content into local languages or adhering to local regulations are some classic examples.

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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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Retain talent? Market trends?

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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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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. You have an incredibly talented team and I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn from them.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Talent Marketplaces Talent marketplaces connect organization with on-demand talent like independent consultants or experts with skills outside of their core business model. For example, there’s McKinsey’s Power Solutions , a suite of cloud-based tools and analytics that clients can embed into their existing stack.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, can you identify a low, moderate, and high-intensity descriptive word for happy, sad, and scared feelings? Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. They hired an executive coach as part of the leadership transition support and cultural agility development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

When contending for talent in a competitive world, no organization — let alone the largest in the world, with the largest stakes — can afford to lose employees like 2nd Lieutenant Riley. Attracting Talent. Taking 50% of the population off the table meant losing too much potential talent.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Infosys Locations: 18 countries, 20+ cities.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

Talent deficiency . For example, the application of the latest manufacturing technologies (e.g. Adopt Agile frameworks for product development. As car manufacturers have to quickly respond to customers’ growing demands and the automotive industry’s trends, Agile approaches can be successfully used in automotive manufacturing.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The same can be said about companies that ramp up their workforce planning and talent development. Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consider examples like data analysis experts, Google search engine advisors, and CRM strategists. Using the area of digitization as an example, organizations can use Flash Organizations to take on complex and data-based projects in a more resilient and agile way. . Additionally, the war for talent is increasing.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

For example, in a large bank, the cloud transformation was intended to build a client-centric, omnichannel distribution organization. For example, in the case of the client-centric, omnichannel distribution bank, success required sales and product teams to collaborate more seamlessly to the benefit of the client.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is a humorous example of micro-management from the movie Office Space. Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed. How motivated is the follower toward the task?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

But often, people leaders don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be and struggle building meaningful connections with their people to drive consistent results. In each of the examples above, the manager meets the worker where they are. It’s not for lack of trying or wanting to be great leaders.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Does your talent management strategy make it clear who is ultimately responsible for leadership succession planning? But most organizations have not clarified who is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the organization has the depth and breadth of leaders needed to accomplish its most critical strategic priorities over the long term.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? For example, when COVID-19 hit, sales leaders were forced to shift sales and service teams to working virtually, invest in new technologies, and reset expectations with leaders, suppliers, and customers. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? And now we have one – COVID 19.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Organisations that choose to expand their ecosystem towards businesses with Digital orientation and focus on Digital innovation and forming partnerships with them can gain access to new Digital technologies, talent and capabilities.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Agile innovation teams are small.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. ” You may be surprised to learn that even a small amount of flexibility will go a long way, for example. Autonomy: Independence, seeking choice and flexibility. Check in and offer feedback.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Embracing Change. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Embracing Change. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Strategic workforce planning, and talent management and reskilling initiatives, are already top of mind for many in HR and among functional leaders. Just as digital technology is now fully within the purview of all organizational leaders, so is the question of digital-ready talent.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For example, Customer Experience as a Service (CXaaS) is a cloud-based customer solution for planning, designing, and executing activities that encompass all parts of the customer experience. Agile outsourced support from day one : A case study on end-to-end outsourced support that delivers best-in-class results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers. The risk had been managed well.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 11, 2018

Diversity on the team – diverse ages for example could include in a team of five – one Gen Z, one Millenial, one Gen X, one Baby Boomer and one Traditionalist. Disagreement is welcomed and established as a necessary part of team decision making.

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