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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business

A 2016 HBR Analytics survey of 385 managers revealed that most executives were frustrated with planning because they believed that speed was important and that plans frequently changed anyway. The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Marketing 134
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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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The Best Cybersecurity Investment You Can Make Is Better Training

Harvard Business

Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search for the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea — certainly not one that depends on technology alone. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all. Insight Center.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality. Creating new business models, products and services: Big data provides organisations with the opportunity to identify customer demand, spot trends in the market and develop the next generation of products and services ( Tras, 2015 ).

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

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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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