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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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure. In the context of business, these decisions are forged through meetings involving key stakeholders where strategic, operational, and performance-related topics are discussed and debated.

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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. What can I do?”

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

While leaders are often experienced in day-to-day operations, they are often inexperienced in taking an organization in radically new directions that require new ways of working , thinking, and behaving. Do your leaders know how to actively involve key stakeholders during change to ensure that they are all onboard? That is a shame.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

Understanding the cultural nuances of these approaches is important during both strategy design and strategy execution. In a low process variation organization, consistency, predictability, and meticulous attention to detail matter most to deliver on the strategy for success.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In today’s data-centric digital landscape, intelligence is central to any business strategy, especially as we look towards 2024. Critical success factors (CSFs) represent the key areas or conditions you need to master for your business strategy to be successful. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? 3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis.

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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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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.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. When it is clear that senior leaders need to operate at a higher level to succeed, an underutilized performance lever revolves around the leadership mindsets at work that drive key behaviors and actions.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). So, how can consulting firms leverage the value of big data more effectively?

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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Strategy and Capabilities. Many organizations have a compelling, inspirational strategy supported by organizational capabilities. Operating Model. The challenge is how to do it the right way.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

Small businesses play a vital role in the global economy, with millions of them operating worldwide. It involves developing and implementing strategies to improve the overall performance of the organization, including its people, processes, and systems. Managing Change: Small businesses operate in a constantly changing environment.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

As a corporate strategy professional, I execute and coordinate all of the key activities of the firm that span multiple business units and functions. Figure: Pyramid Principle, Barbara Minto: “MECE: I invented it, so I get to say how to pronounce it” (Source: McKinsey ). How to make the most of the Minto Pyramid Principle?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He discovered that working independently allowed him to identify gaps within the strategy consulting industry that he easily would have missed if he had been working as a employee. The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how many companies operate and handle various tasks. This strategy allows L&D programs to adapt to the needs of the individual, ensuring learners can progress at a pace that suits them best. That strategy makes participating entertaining, often leading to better results.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Ask them to rate how well you respond to challenging situations or how empathetic you are. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Executive coaching, instead of mentoring , can be an excellent choice for leaders wanting to cultivate their cultural agility.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s why it’s critical to keep both front and back office operations running smoothly and effectively. For example, hotel receptionists, bank tellers, and other customer service and sales associates who directly interact with customers are considered part of an organization’s front office operations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. It’s a familiar story.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

So how can we plan for change? The first part is to clarify the current strategy. Clarify Strategy A good strategy explains the kinds of problems you solve for specific customers. Those organizations can define their strategy without too much trouble. That's the only reason to define a strategy.)

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. Decisions about what services to offer and how to deliver them must align with client needs, branding, and financial objectives.

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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. One of the best ways to streamline and enhance operations is to engage your team members and ask for their ideas.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

While others have written about how to design exponential strategies and organizations, I want to focus here on how to create an exponential mindset. Unless you are conscious and diligent, you can end up with a strategy that looks digital (i.e. uses digital technology) but doesn’t actually operate digitally (i.e.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Organizational culture is complex, and it can play a powerful — and sometimes destructive — role that is too often overlooked when new strategies are devised and launched. In a new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the most frequently cited barrier to implementing strategy was culture.

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1 to 1

MAY 19, 2020

A forward-thinking strategy is the best solution for overcoming uncertainty. For CX-leaders in the contact center space to overcome the fallout from COVID-19, the digital, remote, and perseverance strategies that carried them through the crisis in the first place may be their best move. Here are three strategies worth embracing.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Done wrong, organization structures stifle innovation, collaboration, and strategy execution. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly. High performance cultures make it easy and beneficial to execute the company’s people and business strategies.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This research confirms that when it comes to strategy execution, there is a knowing-doing gap. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. And it comes at a cost that is all too familiar: Most initiatives set up to execute strategy fail to deliver the intended benefits. Insight Center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation requires a new approach to strategy. A key tenet of digital transformation is the understanding that digital strategy no longer plays a supporting role for business strategy. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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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. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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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. One of the best ways to streamline and enhance operations is to engage your team members and ask for their ideas.

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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. Next, you need to develop a strategy for tackling the undesired behaviors. measure) could look like.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. It connects to the organization’s overall strategy and performance goals. CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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1 to 1

JULY 19, 2021

Customer experiences have transformed seemingly overnight, with enhanced digital tools and technology, work-from-home operations, and empowered customers. Many government agencies are being asked to add more digital channels, flexibility and speed to public-facing operations while also maintaining strict levels of security and compliance.

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