Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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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). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Report Monday, September 26, 2016. At the top of the collective agenda in 2016 is the digitization of payments, which has come with more than its share of hype. This adaptation will involve deploying an agile approach to product development and overhauling organizational structures to reduce decision layers.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

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. See “Simplifying IT to Accelerate Digital Transformation,” BCG article, April 2016.)

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. The digital economy is making significant contributions to global gross domestic product (GDP), outpacing global growth by 400 percent. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

For example, product managers are learning to write their own SQL code and interpret their own experiments about whether to launch a new product feature in a certain city. This enables employees to act swiftly on innovation opportunities.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. For instance, recall the global system-wide outage that struck Delta Airlines in August, 2016 resulting in the unprecedented grounding of all flights.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Freelance Consultants A consultant is a highly specialized person with vast experience who is paid to provide professional or expert advice in a particular field or specialty, such as advising a company on digital marketing campaigns or on increasing productivity, etc. But how do you do that?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Article Thursday, October 27, 2016. Instead, the short-comings are in leadership, the resolve to change, and the skills needed to reshape the organization around new approaches such as agile. Adopt a comprehensive approach to disruptive digital innovation that focuses on creating new products and business models.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Article Monday, September 26, 2016. They must practice hard, though, to develop and deliver a superior end-to-end customer experience, drive agile product development, and leverage application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. billion in 2016 for Lore’s company in its increasingly desperate efforts to more effectively compete against Amazon. ” Insight Center.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Focus Monday, November 21, 2016. As a result, they have a tremendous impact on productivity, employee engagement, attrition, and customer satisfaction. Imagine this scenario: Josh, one of the top-performing employees in a key division of your company, gets promoted to his first management role.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The bottleneck to deploying AI-enabled, society-enhancing products and services is shifting from technology to regulation in domains like autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems.

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Policies Government Report Research 70

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.

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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.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Embrace Productive Failure. While these tactics are necessary and useful, when used alone they serve merely as Band-Aids to the problem.

Management 71

Management Enterprise Metrics Productivity 71

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

According to Deloitte, 92% of the 26,000 blockchain-based projects created since 2016 are now dead. They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about. Segway is a classic example of such a product. Teams need to be agile and ready to adapt as new information is received.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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