BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Are product or service choices shifting? Consider conducting focus groups or distributing surveys to get customer feedback, and pay close attention to what is said in the reviews you are getting online. Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Are those buying trends changing?

B2B 52

B2B B2C Trends Agile 52

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What operating model do we need for this new ecosystem?”. For example, in the case of the client-centric, omnichannel distribution bank, success required sales and product teams to collaborate more seamlessly to the benefit of the client. How will we ensure that employees are enabled to leverage an ever-evolving system?

Accenture 50

Accenture Government Tools Banking 50

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.

Meeting 52

Meeting Tools Survey Productivity 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

A recent survey of leaders across companies with under $10m to over $1bn in annual revenue identified the following negative consequences associated with ineffective leadership communication: 52% reported higher stress levels. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2021

Innovation, agility and the ability to think laterally can overcome the economy, the pandemic and the general funk in the populace at the moment. If a celebrity is enthusiastic about your product and endorses it, you could have a winner. If a fan becomes a social media star and brags on your product, you just might have a winner.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Automotive Ethics 52

Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

Small businesses play a vital role in the global economy, with millions of them operating worldwide. This can help small businesses develop new products and services that meet the changing needs of their customers. Managing Change: Small businesses operate in a constantly changing environment.

Organizational Development 52

Organizational Development Small Business Development Talent 52

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. A recent SAP-Oxford survey identified three key models emerging in the professional services industry: 1. That said, professional services firms have some important things in common.

Industry 52

Industry SMB Software Talent 52

LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Customer Experience Transformation Transforming your customer’s experience is far more comprehensive an effort than just musing about customer behavior or surveying a slice of your market.

Metrics 36

Metrics Comparison System Agile 36

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

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. What’s more, the digital revolution is demanding internal changes to drive digital transformation within the organization and operate in more cost-effective ways.

Insurance 60

Insurance Insurance Case Study Case Studies 60

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.

Agile 53

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

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. It is clear that employee engagement has a great impact on business success.

Culture 36

Culture Leadership Guidelines Study 36

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Traditionally, they might get vendors such as Gallup to survey employee engagement. But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Metrics 43

Metrics Survey Software Operations 43

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

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. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out.

Operations 28

Operations Survey Efficiency Fashion 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story.

Marketing 47

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 47

Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets.

System 28

System Cash Flow Software Operations 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

They pursued a variety of tactics before the recession that were designed to fortify the firm when the downturn hit – moves both within sales and beyond like adding a low-cost channel to serve small accounts or simplifying the product assortment. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession.

Sales 37

Sales B2B Tools Software 37

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail. But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? We were wrong.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Culture Agile Leadership 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. But can these organizations adapt fast enough? Over a third (39 percent) are moderately digital.

Company 28

Company Survey Operations Productivity 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That would make his product unaffordable for most of his core customers, and they would almost certainly switch to his competitors’ cheaper alternative. In a survey of 77 of my company Frontier Strategy Group’s global clients, 88.3% The 30% that the ruble had dropped since his last quarterly review? Federal Reserve.

Marketing 28

Marketing Company Agile Sales 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Resource producers, increasingly able to deploy a range of technologies in their operations, can access mines and wells that were once inaccessible, raise the efficiency of extraction techniques, and shift to predictive maintenance. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

Resources 28

Resources Industry Energy Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility. We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

Talent 37

Talent Company Culture Bain 37

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. Surveys aren’t perfect, of course, and one disadvantage of this data is that respondents have discretion over what they consider to count as cloud computing.

Research 33

Research Data Agile Software 33

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

Agile 28

Agile Engineering How To Software 28