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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. How do you incent the managers? Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

By reducing variability in operations, they cultivate an environment conducive to delivering consistent outcomes, fostering customer satisfaction, and bolstering reputation. Rigidity in processes can hinder organizational agility , making it challenging to respond swiftly to evolving market dynamics or capitalize on emergent opportunities.

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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 project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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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 20, 2020

Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people. Maybe speed is in your DNA.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Challenge yourself to come up with new ideas for how to raise your profile and deepen your impact with your target market. Ideas may include marketing initiatives, personal networking, social media, thought leadership, new offerings, and more.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent. How fair and balanced is your leadership succession process in calibrating leadership performance and potential?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

Figure: Pyramid Principle, Barbara Minto: “MECE: I invented it, so I get to say how to pronounce it” (Source: McKinsey ). A = “We need to build a more robust M&A pipeline that evaluates potential targets and moves to the execution phase with more agility. How to make the most of the Minto Pyramid Principle?

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Challenge yourself to come up with new ideas for how to raise your profile and deepen your impact with your target market. Ideas may include marketing initiatives, personal networking, social media, thought leadership, new offerings, and more.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

And a successful redesign of the customer experience requires the active involvement of your entire organization , from the ground up, in understanding at each level how to deliver the best customer experience possible, each and every time. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. The reporting lets executive leadership know precisely what is happening and unlocks frontline wisdom.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Create a leadership and development portal. What reports do we need? What data is missing?),

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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. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The top executive teams in successful global companies spend time together, sharing the enterprise leadership role.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise. Yes, employees might need training in data analytics and coding, but they also need to learn design thinking, empathy mapping, and how to turn data into insights. To do that, begin to shift your thinking.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

How much and how often is time devoted in your company to revisiting its core organizing principles and discussing how to build capability for tomorrow’s customer, versus focusing on today’s business? If that’s the case, you urgently need to address this gap in leadership focus and capability.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. It lives in the collective hearts and habits of people and their shared perception of “how things are done around here.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The retailers left standing are those that figure out how to treat disruption as business-as-usual in an industry accustomed to slow, strategic planning. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Insight center.

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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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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

In the last years, some digital projects have gained popularity across industries, including: ERP implementation projects SCRUM projects IT migration projects IT strategy projects Operational excellence projects When it comes to Digital Transformation projects, there are some key success factors that come into play.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. And yet it is possible.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers. As remote operations experts, we scale and supercharge operations and provide tailored initiatives after we analyzed the status quo. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more about how to reform your team’s meeting habits.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They want to choose how to customize their products, services, and even the channels in which they interact with brands. 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.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Over the last few years we’ve been increasingly interested in the impact of a leader’s preference for speed versus a “slow and steady” mode of operation. Many organizations are looking for ways to become more agile. We computed statistical tests on 49 leadership behaviors.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Members are guided on how to register for an online member portal, which provides access to email your doctor, refill prescriptions, make appointments, and more. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

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