Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. Boston: Removing Roadblocks.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. For most companies, however, benefits at this scale are elusive.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To keep up, companies are scrambling to enable more customer experience channels for sales and service. 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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. We’re working on a model for the ROI of a technology dollar, versus a marketing dollar, versus a sales dollar, so we can make trade-off decisions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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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. 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

APRIL 28, 2016

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). There was no going back until a sale was either won or lost.

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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.

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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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a finance and operational system in place, but siloed systems can’t go beyond everyday business processes or help with future business growth. Ensure business agility. As companies expand and their needs change, their systems should keep up with them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If the priority for the business is margin, but sales targets locally are still set around volume of sales, the execution of a pricing change can be compromised. They incentivize the wrong priorities. For instance, one of our B2B clients raised prices by 15-20% following a currency depreciation. That can have disastrous consequences.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. a) Agility. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure). 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These could range from employee turnover, equipment malfunctions, or even seasonal variations in sales for businesses. “I was approached by a company to investigate why a very important project that should have taken one year actually took five years. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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