Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One of our clients learned this as its business in Ukraine was facing rapid currency depreciation, and its finance department, whose ultimate priority was revenue collection, switched to USD pricing. Country and regional leadership teams should ask: 1) What is our broad objective in this market? That can have disastrous consequences.

Marketing 28

Marketing Company Agile Sales 28

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global operating and support functions (R&D, supply chain, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.). Some leadership teams inhabit these models as though they are second nature.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. Senior leadership has begun a journey to reset decision authority – notably in the opposite direction from Philips. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite large-scale, well-funded change initiatives, sophisticated communication programs, and countless worldwide leadership summits, the hard work of bringing these complex organization designs to life often lacks focus or is not sustained over the three or more years that it typically takes to fully embed new ways of working.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Based on that data, build an agile and insight-driven service delivery model. Encourage other customer-related business units like marketing, sales, finance, and others to collaborate on a holistic CX ecosystem. A truly holistic approach to CX needs buy-in from top-level leadership that trickles down through the entire organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The company’s finance organization was developing a new three-year Operating Expense (OPEX) plan, at the same time that HR rolled out their new plan.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Spending on corporate learning, particularly leadership development, continues to increase at a staggering pace. According to one piece of research , spending on frontline leadership development alone increased by over 310% in a three-year period. Pat Canova/Getty Images. Learning departments are frequently part of the problem.

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Agile Pharmaceuticals Strategy Strategy 31

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In the following months, the CMO began to look for opportunities where her team could proactively step “into the gap” — to take a leadership role on an opportunity that none of the other functions picked up. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. In finance, the “fox” strategy is similar to using real options , and it can help you make talent decisions just as it helps in your decisions about R&D, manufacturing and finance. Increasingly, you cannot.

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Talent Financial Finance Agile 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

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. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

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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 is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Sports Marketing Software 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. By taking this approach, Amazon can improve its processes swiftly and the company’s senior leadership stays in touch with what’s happening on the front line.

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Retail Operations Productivity Industry 30

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow. Second, Cuba confronts the difficult task of unburdening its largely stalled state-led economy.

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Policies Government Development System 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you review the product organization image (at the top of this post), you’ll see that a product organization has its own Customer Support, Sales, HR, Finance, Marketing functions in the product line. One of the answers is to break the centralization of functions. No one needs to go to another VP to fix problems.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “It is a critical aspect of your reputation.”

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