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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 1 – Artificial Intelligence)

Tom Spencer

Digital disruption is touching every aspect of the consumer market, including the insurance industry. So with customers expecting more personalized, agile, and on-demand delivery, insurers are now racing to keep pace and deliver more relevant solutions for a changing user landscape. Case Studies. Image: Pexels.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

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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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

Nevertheless, remote work allows companies to reduce their costs such as rent, which leads to a positive impact towards the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions when employees no longer need to travel to work. Examples of common functions are sales, marketing, human resources, etc. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. The third and final nail on the coffin was that they didn’t read their market right – a fatal change management mistake. They were not agile enough. Autopsy #1 – Borders.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

Today, in most mature markets, it’s more than 90 percent automated, yet it is still one of the most expensive and space-intensive sections of the factory. Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. Insight Center.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.