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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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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., In addition to ramping up technology savvy recruitment, CEOs face the weighty challenge of creating a cohesive, high-performance culture.

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How Leaders Can Focus on the Big Picture

Harvard Business

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. For everything you decide you want (a particular market positioning, an investment in a new product, a new capability or function), articulate what that means you can’t do.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

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. In part, that means abandoning old ways of measuring productivity. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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