Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2024

But that approach has more limited success in today’s volatile business landscape and won’t provide the transformational results that companies need today. In the ever-evolving M&A landscape, mindset and agility are the compass points which can guide organizations toward growth and lasting change.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility. On the other side of the spectrum, great leaders are agile. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly. As we know, buggy whip makers and telegraph companies must evolve or die.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 7, 2017

This trend toward more agile production, design, and leadership development is critical in creating the kind of responsive and flexible atmosphere that gets better results quickly. Today we're talking about how agility is particularly essential to corporate learning and development programs.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 15, 2017

The agile corporate-learning business model has been getting a lot of attention in recent times. Companies are seeing the benefits of a more agile production, design, and even leadership development programs. But an agile model isn’t for everyone.

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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. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2024

When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

How companies can prepare for future upheavals, make strategic decisions, and remain agile.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In fact, one management theorist of the 1960s suggested that the best managed organizations in the world were the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party. And yet, planning is clearly essential for any company of any size. The belief was that if the future was mapped out, it would happen.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Continuous Learning = An Agile Workforce LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report looked at the factors most important to job seekers when evaluating a new career opportunity. When viewed in the context of an unstable or uncertain job market, continuous learning is essential to creating and maintaining an agile workforce and operations.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. Organizations reward people as individuals—but agility demands collaboration. It's time for performance reviews.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 23, 2021

I had a terrific time with Chris Williams on his Badass Agile podcast. How managers need to collaborate to achieve agility. Let me help you leave” the company. The post Enlightening Conversation on the Badass Agile Podcast appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. We had a terrific discussion.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy. Leaders must now manage teams that are dispersed across various locations, requiring new strategies for communication, collaboration, and maintaining company culture.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 26, 2021

They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. That's why they want to Buy an agile approach. Why Build a Company-Wide “Standard” Board? Not realizing a standard agile approach is an oxymoron. Teams need to experiment and change their agile approach.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Over the past 30 years they’ve invented a new way of running companies, what author Andrew McAfee calls the “Geek Way.” Companies that resist this recipe risk being left behind. Silicon Valley firms don’t just create technology.

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Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. The most popular and widely used Agile methodology is Scrum. The work on a product or service in a company that follows Scrum principles is based on sprints.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Lessons from Airbnb, Qantas, Disney, and other companies that successfully navigated a year of disruption.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 4, 2022

Post-pandemic, companies need to, above all, be ready to adapt to a new world of work.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back in Part 1 , I wrote about how stage-gate approaches were as agile as we could use at the time. We had one delivery, so our agility was about canceling the project if we couldn't finish it. Opportunities for Agility. The iterative lifecycles offer agility anytime you get feedback from a customer (or a manager).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” 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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Opportunities for More Agility. Because we release every time we finish a feature set, we have these opportunities for agility: Re-rank the remaining feature sets. If your company can't create an agile culture, consider an incremental lifecycle, especially if you have schedule risks. Part 5 Agile Approaches.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

Meanwhile, every company aspires to be as innovative as these startups. Many companies invest in or buy them, unsure what they’ll yield other than the halo effect they may overpay for, made worse by the fact that most don’t align with the company strategy or meet a market insight. New features.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. The CEO of a family-owned construction company recognized that an outside, objective perspective would be valuable to the future and growth of the company. The post Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Still, effective project management requires more than profound knowledge and expertise: it demands the right tools to streamline processes, enhance team collaboration, and enable efficient decision-making everything you need to reach your companys strategic goals. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how many companies operate and handle various tasks. Understanding how AI is revolutionizing instructional design is beneficial to learning and development (L&D) and their client companies alike. Will AI Replace Instructional Design Consulting Firms?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. Companies can begin to address the collaboration overload problem by adjusting organizational structures and routines. That’s a mistake.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Why did the company want to use schedule variance? Why do you have deadlines?

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

M&A is central to many companies’ growth strategies. Companies with more organic growth generate higher shareholder returns than those relying on acquisitions alone. Companies dedicate vast amounts of time, money, and effort to organic growth. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. But those procedures had also slowed the company down. Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 29, 2020

important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. The process of developing and executing agile strategy highlights critical issues. Market Realities.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

L&D Programs Enhance Employee Performance When working for a company, the number one thing that people find most valuable is knowledge. This is a dip in revenue that a company can’t afford to make in poor economic times. With the help of L&D programs , your employees will walk away more focused, motivated, and loyal than ever.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. Employees are more likely to stay with a company that invests in their career development and provides opportunities for continuous learning.

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