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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively. The tool is tailored for professional services organizations (marketing, advertising, creative agencies, software, IT services, and management consulting sectors).

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

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 135
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David and Goliath: How Boutique Firms Triumph

Tom Spencer

This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match. The decisions of the firm are ultimately more specialized, agile, cost-effective, and client-centric.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton launched their company with a straightforward proposition: They would create a messaging app that people wanted to use without bombarding them with advertising. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does.

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Make Work Meaningful for Your Freelancers, Too

Harvard Business

We answered this question by interviewing freelancers in a wide range of industries — from tech to advertising. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Variety: Development, seeking new opportunities to learn and grow professionally.

Agile 71
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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

But more than that, we would need to make fundamental changes in how we attracted, developed, and advanced our talent, and how we helped the department’s people transition back to civilian life. To overcome those challenges, we began to change where and how we recruited and advertised. Developing Talent. Attracting Talent.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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