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. In today's data-driven world, data is becoming increasingly important for organizations to gain a competitive advantage and make informed decisions.

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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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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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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. The information that escalates up falls into two categories: Issues that cannot be resolved at a given tier.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content. The metrics also changed. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or, heaven forbid, profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Don’t just impart information. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These transformative elements, while well-recognized, are evolving at an unprecedented pace, affecting how professional services firms operate, make decisions, collaborate, and structure their services. The internet, email, smartphones, and social media have all significantly accelerated information sharing and communication.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. ” Being challenged and having new information may well change your answers; even if it does not, it will make your existing answers more robust. But what she does really well is come back up.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Over the past few decades, we’ve watched the impact of digitalization play out in real-time — just think of the countless ways that the internet, email, smartphones, and socials have made it faster and easier to share information, communicate, and complete basic tasks. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility.

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