Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Developing organizational muscle is about careful design, blending the integration of structure, skills, processes and networks. The challenge is to build the necessary components to ensure successful organizational development through several cycles to ensure the muscle is conditioned and developed to deliver.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

3. Lack of design criteria. • Waste of time and resources developing options not centered on business growth needs or problems to solve. • Lack of clarity around how the new organization design will be better than the status quo. 8. Unclear design terminology. 9.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. Salespeople see the world as prospects and products, offers and opportunities.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a Vision Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Metrics are vital for effective execution. Check out more on accountability here.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Metrics are vital for effective execution. Establishing a Vision. Check out more on accountability here.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. Siegler at G.V.,

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established. Things like organization design, training, improved processes, and new shared metrics and performance standards are.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Harnessing complexity. A new definition of ‘center-led’.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

I was buried in the enterprise.” I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. But methods can be learned.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S. This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. Ecolab is a prime example of this.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Here are a few examples of what we recommend in this new framework: Develop a global energy strategy with C-suite and cross-functional accountability. For example, Saint Gobain’s Ohio factory produces 30,000 different products, each with its own energy demands. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As delivery networks grow and deploy broad enterprise EHR platforms, the challenge of making them help rather than hinder clinicians is increasing. developed its own EHR system that is closely aligned with the care and patient relationship practices it employs. Finally, regulatory requirements and reimbursement rules change rapidly.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. “They’re not hard to calculate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The metrics also changed. Everyone likes to talk about being “customer-centric.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.) Plan for shorter projects. Every effort has risks.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world. Openness and Transparency.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

Since 1970, the world’s 50 biggest companies have tripled in size, and the number of consumer products introduced each year has increased 16-fold (Useem & Useem, 2005). Many firms have expanded internationally, and even those that have not face new competition from abroad as their products and services rapidly commoditize.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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., Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs. Focusing on one at the expense of the other is no longer a choice.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Anticipating that other enterprises may benefit from these lessons, we have organized them into a new machine learning paradigm, which we call ML 2.0. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. The metrics need to change. And all of this takes resources.

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