Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

Whether navigating challenges, optimizing operations, or seizing growth opportunities, consulting services offer a myriad of benefits that contribute to client success. Operational Efficiency and Process Optimization Consultants help clients streamline operations, optimize processes, and improve efficiency across departments.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Whereas many companies were forced to shift to agile methods, this was already the company’s mindset.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. This data-driven approach enables medium-sized companies to make informed decisions and tailor their products or services to meet market demand effectively. This leads to increased productivity and profitability.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success.

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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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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development. Although agile software development promises to reduce costs and boost creativity, the reliability and consistency of a consulting service could be negatively affected.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success.

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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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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.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. How often do you release new products/services? Read on to learn more. Are compliance/governance rules working?

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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. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Cindy operates in a regulated industry.).

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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.

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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

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Ideas may include marketing initiatives, personal networking, social media, thought leadership, new offerings, and more.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

This category embraces employees, customers, and leadership and consists of the following components. . Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services. Let’s explore them in detail. . People: The Most Valuable Asset .

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Ideas may include marketing initiatives, personal networking, social media, thought leadership, new offerings, and more.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

The Undisputed Value of Engaged Employees Our employee engagement survey data shows that engaged employees drive 8% greater productivity, 12% higher customer satisfaction, and 51% less voluntary turnover. How fair and balanced is your leadership succession process in calibrating leadership performance and potential?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). A cross-functional team who manages the project portfolio for their part of the business, for a product line, for an organization. As part of the regulatory/governance/operational team at the senior level of the organization, if your org has one of those teams.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 29, 2020

First, define the seats you need on your team and the roles those seats have, as explained in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®). This evaluation is crucial to maintain optimal team performance and to create an agile and responsive organization. The way out of this situation is to take the following three steps.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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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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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments). Global operating and support functions (R&D, supply chain, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.).

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

The steps to redesign your customer experience typically lead to new ways to interact with customers, new product and service offerings, and new ways of thinking and behaving that haven’t been considered before. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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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

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.

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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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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009).

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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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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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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