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). Finance and Controlling Processes.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Rapidly-changing work demands can preclude retraining the regular workforce, so organizations meet critical and fast-changing capabilities by tapping into alternative work arrangements, often blending work arrangements. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action. High-performing marketing organizations have developed a more agile style of working to keep their brands competitive amid rapid marketplace shifts.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

The captive financing division of a global manufacturer has a team of 30 or so analytics modelers, several of which are PhD holders. These choices are apparently working fine, with the caveat that the supply cannot seem to meet the demand. Data and analytics embedded in an operating division. The poles of the trade-offs are clear.

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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. 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

At other future-focused retailers, setting up autonomous, cross-functional teams to meet constantly evolving challenges is taking hold in different ways. Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They aspire to teach abstract concepts to their employees, such as “agility,” “collaboration,” and “coaching.” Every organization has functions that wield a disproportionate amount of power — the typical suspects are finance, procurement, and audit.

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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. Too often, managers are measured by how well their teams meet a specific date. No one needs to go to another VP to fix problems.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. The Stigma Against Buffers Buffers are essential for managing uncertainties, yet they often meet resistance, especially in management circles. It prepares teams for unforeseen challenges, enhancing the organization’s agility and responsiveness to change.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Severn Trent Water, among other UK water companies, has agreed to “outcomes-delivery incentives” with the regulator Ofwat that results in rewards and penalties if it meets or fails to meet, respectively, performance commitments. It’s no wonder that payment by results (PbR) is gaining traction.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. They’re under pressure to meet deadlines that sometimes overlap, juggle all these projects’ shared resources, set priorities, and ensure team members’ productivity.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Move from an established company to an agile company How many meetings have you been attending were the same topics pop up over and over again? “We We need to be more digital and agile; those who do not change will not survive!” “How do we create a more agile organization?” But how do you do that?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

A department running over its budget during a fiscal year must reduce its expenditures to meet the annual spending target regardless of the consequences in future years. Instead, the finance office can allow the department to keep some of the savings it created, in excess of the original acquisition cost, in future year budgets.

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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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A hedgehog would start with a confident position such as, “the middle class in emerging regions will be the main source of consumer growth over the next 20 years,” and deeply focus predictive analytics on how to meet that future. Consider your talent resource like an investment portfolio.

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