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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business

In a 2014 global survey of Human Capital Trends conducted by Deloitte , 57% of respondents said that their organizations are “weak” when it comes to helping leaders manage difficult schedules and helping employees manage information flow, and that there is an urgent need to address this challenge. Develop mental agility.

Energy 132
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Global Companies Need to Adopt Agile Pricing in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.

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Balance Alignment with Agility to Achieve Culture

Kates Kesler

A McKinsey 2014 paper, “The Aligned Organization,” … Calls for organizational alignment have headlined strategy publications for the last 20 years.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. No one will be able to afford to stand still.

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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. A few key elements distinguish this era of change from the past.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Between 2012 and 2014 alone, Kraft, Royal Dutch Philips, Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll Rand, ConocoPhillips, Darden, and E-Bay agreed to split off substantial portions of their business in response to a groundswell of hostility toward underperforming diversified companies. As organization designers this trend intrigues us.