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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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. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Four Keys to Success Our organization alignment research has highlighted four keys to the successful execution of your overall strategy. With a clear line of sight , each function, each team, and each individual employee understands exactly how they are to operate and where and when they will interact with others.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that, while all growth plans require access to financial and people resources, there are various ways and different paces to invest in growth. Leaders must evaluate whether their current operational ways of working are designed to scale. How Scalable Are Our Current Processes?

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We built on this research by going beyond the lens of the individual leader to investigate how the most successful teams bridge the gap. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Through this research, they identified a pain point of tracking vehicle gas mileage. The metrics also changed. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” The results?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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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 most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” In other words, people failing to work together to make change happen.

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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. But, as my own research shows, in order to be meaningful, empowerment requires some boundaries, some rules that have been decided on within which empowerment can be exercised.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. 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. Jakob Owens/Unsplash.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Why are translators so important? Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Progressus helps professional services firms transform operations, tear down silos, and drive long-term profitability.

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