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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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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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 19, 2023

L&D leaders have been instrumental in helping employers and employees pivot to pandemic protocols and navigate both remote and hybrid operations and corporate culture. 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

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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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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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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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. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. 1,2 and so on.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

We all know that in a foreign culture, one of the most important skills to develop is the ability to translate, to learn to speak the new language — or at least master a few key phrases. You also need to learn to translate your behavior so you don’t end up making cultural faux pas. Do a cultural inventory.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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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

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Leaders, like those at this company, often assume that if a practice worked in one place, it will in another—and they want to reap the benefits of sharing common practices across locations. Managing Across Cultures. It made sense.

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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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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

By turning training content into a compelling narrative with relatable and memorable stories, companies can improve knowledge retention, boost engagement, and inspire employees to take action. Storytelling in corporate training does exactly that. Storytelling has that power. Read the full case study here 3.

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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. Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. That’s a mistake. are just the most obvious impacts.

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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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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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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Agile Enterprise. For Infosys Inc.,

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility. However, many people wanted “the recipe” for agility.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In response, they may choose to hold on to the past and what’s comfortable or feel a bit disoriented as they search for their place in the new company. Insight Center.

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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

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 1, 2017

Each morning from 8:30 to 9:05 AM at our company’s headquarters, in San Francisco, we serve free breakfast to every employee. Our startup, Pivotal, calls the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood home, alongside companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Adobe, Slack, Salesforce, and Uber. Healthy, I know. I know what you’re thinking.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It’s the “paradox of expertise”: The more closely you’ve looked at an industry, the more successful you’ve been in a company or a profession, the harder it can be to see new patterns, prospects, and possibilities. WD-40 is an unlikely setting for such a learning-obsessed culture.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Yet, our organizational alignment research found that the alignment of strategy and talent accounts for 60% of the difference between high and low performing companies. 5 Steps to Achieve Strategic Alignment Define Organizational Objectives Clearly Strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

These strategies foster a continuous learning culture, where employees are encouraged to acquire new skills, share knowledge, and innovate. By embedding learning into the organization’s fabric, companies can remain competitive and agile in the face of change.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Successful companies, like Apple or Google, deliberately foster a culture of “space” where innovation can flourish. The backspace represents agility—the ability to pivot, revise, and improve. Encouraging whitespace in business planning allows ideas to breathe and develop.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. After the inevitable blame game, the company started to experiment with one change a day. What culture do you want?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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