An Agile Approach to Change Management
Harvard Business
JANUARY 11, 2021
Six lessons on moving quickly under pressure.
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How to Avoid the Churn That Comes with Agility
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Leaders today know that they need to be agile — to change direction quickly in the face of changing or uncertain conditions. But a byproduct of agility is churn: The confusion and demotivation that comes from many such pivots. This can cause inefficiency that bogs down innovative projects and strategies.
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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed
Harvard Business
JULY 2, 2018
Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises.
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Top 15 PMO tools for your business in 2025
Epicflow
JANUARY 30, 2025
An effective Project Management Office (PMO) in an organization is a must nowadays. It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. Enhanced risk management through predictive insights. What is a PMO? What are PMO tools?
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Product Portfolio Management: What It Is and Why It Matters for Business Leaders
Epicflow
JUNE 17, 2022
Product portfolio management can make this happen. The Essence of Product Portfolio Management and Its Main Functions. Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary.
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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale. Yes, cancel.
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How to Do Agile Change Management
LSA Global
JULY 14, 2020
Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. That is good news from a change management consulting perspective.
2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals
Epicflow
JANUARY 12, 2024
Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.
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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)
Consulting Matters
MARCH 3, 2021
The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage. The fact is that businesses are not generally safe places for people--even when there is great leadership.
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The Chief Project Officer: Roles and Responsibilities
Epicflow
JUNE 10, 2024
In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy. What organizations require a CPO?
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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2018
Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,
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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components
Epicflow
JUNE 16, 2022
It’s also important to redefine employees’ roles and responsibilities and align them with transformation goals as well as engage integrators and technology-innovation managers in the transformation process. In turn, technology-innovation managers supervise the work on a company’s digital innovations. . Change management.
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Change Management Traps to Avoid
LSA Global
MARCH 11, 2023
Change Management Traps to Avoid Sand traps in golf are designed to penalize wayward shots. Change management consulting experts feel the same about change management traps to avoid. Change management consulting experts feel the same about change management traps to avoid.
Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them
Epicflow
MAY 31, 2022
It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Finally, it requires investment in cybersecurity risk management to protect the data that becomes attractive for cybercriminals. . Giving priority to diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring and talent management. [4; References.
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Strategic Alignment of Skills and Organizational Objectives
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
For example, a company looking to lead in artificial intelligence as part of its go to market strategy must invest in ensuring that its engineers, product managers, marketing, and sales teams possess cutting-edge AI knowledge, skills, and resources. Talent reviews are fundamental to assessing gaps and strengths in your talent pipeline.
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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures
LSA Global
APRIL 18, 2017
To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.
The Manager’s Role in an Agile Transformation
Johanna Rothman
APRIL 26, 2018
Agile transformations are tough. That’s because wherever you start, the agile transformation creates culture clashes. Often, teams start with agile approaches. Teams discover the agile approach and practices that work for that team. That’s the external part of what we see in an agile transformation.
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Impact of Leaders on Organizational Change
LSA Global
JUNE 13, 2024
Done right, effective change leaders ensure that goals are met in a way that ensures both the business and the people emerge stronger and healthier than before. Can your leaders articulate a clear and compelling enough vision for change?
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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted
Harmonious Workplaces
DECEMBER 12, 2023
During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.
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Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Practices
LSA Global
APRIL 11, 2024
A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. Change management consulting experts define agility as the capacity of an organization to anticipate, respond to, and capitalize on internal and external changes.
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How to Create More Agile Mindsets at Work
LSA Global
JUNE 16, 2022
Agile Organizations In general, agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. We need more agile mindsets at work. What are its trademarks?
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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices
Epicflow
APRIL 19, 2024
If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. Documentation of the results obtained.
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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 12, 2019
In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.
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The Future of Management (Part 2/3)
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 5, 2019
In the last installment , we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention. Relevance of the Teal management philosophy.
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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate
Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2017
Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. A comprehensive internal data platform was developed to help Dr. Reddy’s employees be proactive with their customer requests and solve any problems in an agile way. The goal was to demonstrate this idea in action, not talk about it.
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Inarticulate Ramblings is merging with an Agile Gorilla!
Ben de Haldevang
OCTOBER 11, 2018
My new venture, The Agile Gorilla is the result of the above merger. I’ve been remarkably quiet for quite some time…this is not due to a lack of thought / interesting experiences etc but the development of the next stage in my M&A journey. Please click on the link to access our brand new, website.
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Change Partnerships at Work: How to Better Create Them
LSA Global
OCTOBER 17, 2024
How to Create Successful Change Partnerships at Work Organizational change must go through your culture and your people to be successfully implemented. The ability to create change partnerships at work is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of successful change.
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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Part 1: High Innovation Products
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 16, 2019
Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. That desire bumps up against their management's desires for longer commitments. High Need for Product Innovation and Change. The more need for product innovation and change, the shorter the feedback loops need to be.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. Today’s technologies and consumer needs change faster than traditional business road maps can deliver, and employees need to be ready and empowered to move at this pace. .
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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2017
Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. Business schools should be teaching a public-sector version of processes and management and motivation and people.
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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain
Harvard Business
MAY 19, 2016
To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. To act on this opportunity, the company encouraged each employee, on a volunteer basis, to make his or her “unique contribution” to improving the agility of the supply chain. Insight Center.
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The creation of one of the largest consulting businesses….ever!
Ben de Haldevang
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
As part of the new podcast series from the Agile Gorilla Collective, David Boyd, Abhay Pande, Paul Siegenthaler (you can find their bios here [link] – they are an impressive bunch of people!) and I talk through the separation of the EY consulting business as much discussed and written about over the past few months.
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Leaders Focus Too Much on Changing Policies, and Not Enough on Changing Minds
Harvard Business
JUNE 25, 2018
More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers. Despite their best intentions, many of them eventually defaulted back to their habitual patterns. Their worst fears failed to materialize.
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When to Change Business Strategies: The Top 5 Reasons
LSA Global
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Change management simulation data tells us that knowing when to change business strategies is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage and ensuring long-term success. When to Change Business Strategies? Each of these products launched new categories that transformed the company and the broader tech landscape.
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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 28, 2022
Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.
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Deep thinking about deepMind – a very different type of deal!
Ben de Haldevang
MAY 10, 2023
The latest podcast in the Agile Gorilla Collective series.
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How to Help Teams Become Comfortable with Uncertainty
LSA Global
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease.
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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant
Comatch
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. Here are the key insights. . Trends in an Evolving Business Landscape. Remote work is here to stay.
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Major Challenges Facing the Consulting Industry
QEmploy
MAY 9, 2019
From Keylane, Chief Development Manager, Martin Thuesen. Finally, both the Operational Manager and Procurement Manager of Qemploy ‘s indirect client, an anonymous large scaled IT – consulting firm. Martin Thuesen, Chief Development Manager at Keylane has experienced this lack of transparency first hand.
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Decision-Making Traps for Teams to Avoid
LSA Global
JULY 18, 2024
Top Biases and Tips to Mitigate Them Based upon new manager training data, here is the list of the most common decision-making traps for teams and tips to avoid them. Status Quo Bias Status quo bias is the preference for the current situation , leading to resistance to change.
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69 The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2016
To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. A few companies are therefore creating a new role designed to communicate with all of the parties involved: the translator.
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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Summary
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 16, 2019
Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? I have not seen quarter-based or project-based estimation and commitment make sense in moderate change environments. Low Change: Manage the Estimation Costs and Time.
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How to Leverage Change Friction to Change Behaviors at Work
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Do You Leverage Change Friction to Change Behaviors at Work? Experienced leaders know that organizational change is a constant and vital force that either propels strategies and people forward or stops them in their tracks. Is the way work gets done helping or hindering your desired changes?
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Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change
LSA Global
MAY 16, 2024
It demands aligning top leadership for change to guide those affected by change through the inevitable ups and downs of organizational transformation. The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results.
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