Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are compliance/governance rules working? Read on to learn more.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Business organisations and management consultants have long had a contractual rather than an employer/employee relationship. I recently worked on a consulting project where the title of one of the managers was “regular contractor”. From a financial perspective, this allows businesses to turn a fixed cost (i.e.,

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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. The global/local tension. Many companies have a mix of global, regional, and local brands. Harnessing complexity.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What operating model do we need for this new ecosystem?”. At another financial services institution, the intent was to build common practices, tools, and data governance for advanced analytics. One way to solve this is to ensure business and function leaders are active members of the project governance.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many people draw distinctions between people who do management-kind of work and people who do “individual contributor” kind of work. And, our language shapes our culture.) (Okay, the people who have reasonable managers do. You might think managers work alone, as individual contributors. As part of a sales team.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). Extracting the benefits of healthy tension requires a thoughtful approach for managing the convergence of dimensions in a matrix. These many voices create predictable tension that is often mistaken as something harmful.

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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 Operations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Followers and organizations thrive with influential leaders and suffer from ineffective leaders whatever the context: businesses, government, community, education, or faith-based. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The workshop will focus on frameworks and tools for activating sophisticated global/local strategies, including: Establishing one anchor operating-unit layer of organization and a single value-added layer for consolidating most infrastructure. Designing end-to-end functions as integrators of the business unit/market matrix.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Other industries such as Government and Education are trailing in advancing towards Digital adoption on reflection of a slower pace of implementation of emerging Digital technologies across the range and ability to transform them to business capability that delivers competitive advantage.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Albert is the co-founder of Epicflow, an AI-driven multi-project management system. This is the “integration effect.”

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Even P&G announced its intention to shed more than 50 percent of its brands “in order to simplify the way we organize and manage the company” (Byron 2014). The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. ” Govern through transparency to engender trust and enhance cross-business cooperation in delivery.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Their responses overwhelmingly prioritized redefining organizational structures, realigning decision authorities (governance), and reinventing processes. Without hesitation, their explanation of the knowing-doing gap is: Structure, process, and governance are “tangible” — action there is easier to demonstrate and measure.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

” Some are designing new governance forms for enterprises, such as B-corps and cooperative s. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. Over centuries, the military has developed an approach to managing “ the fog of war.” The military’s solution has two parts: Commander’s Intent declares the purpose of an operation and the conditions for success.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.”. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. “In In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Based on that data, build an agile and insight-driven service delivery model. Successfully managing and scaling operations across your entire ecosystem drives governance, superior customer experiences and growth. Leaders, managers and employees alike should feel empowered to share their ideas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

A case like Riley’s would make any leader take a hard look at his institution’s talent management, but it is particularly worrying at the Defense Department. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The main challenge firms face in contracting arises from the sheer number of contracts they must keep track of; these often lack uniformity and are difficult to organize, manage, and update. Improved Tools for Managing Contracts. Managing variations is a huge undertaking that requires proactive organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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