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Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy?

LSA Global

Do You Have the Right Talent to Execute Your Business Strategy? Because your strategy must go through your talent to be successfully executed, it is no surprise that organizations must have the requisite capabilities and confidence to move strategies forward. Strategies that are misaligned with talent are asking for trouble.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

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. This takes time.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

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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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Retain talent? Market trends?

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

To effectively balance investments between fixed (reusable hardware and software) and variable (degree of customization) assets required a clear interaction model for key processes and strategic decisions that outlined roles, governance forums, operating cadences, and decision rights. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? The answer is “yes.”

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. Learning from Big Companies.

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