Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees
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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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]
Epicflow
JULY 5, 2024
Integrations This capability will be useful if a company has already implemented a project management tool. As a result, a company can ensure the staffing of their projects with the required resources. Without tools, obtaining and managing this data is a real challenge, especially for companies running multiple projects.
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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
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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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2018
Wanting something that encouraged more-frequent conversations between associates and partners, the senior lawyer read about what companies like Adobe were doing, and then asked his firm to help him create a new approach. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.
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Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them
Epicflow
MAY 31, 2022
In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. So, every company that wants to stay competitive in the market must digitalize its processes sooner or later. . However, this process often comes with numerous obstacles.
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Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES
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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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance
Clarity Consultants
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Companies rely on Learning & Development (L&D) programs – especially eLearning – to stay competitive as industries change. L&D initiatives are essential for attracting and retaining top talent. Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation.
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Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person
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. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.
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Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth
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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Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
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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The Importance of Investing in Employee Development During Tough Economic Times
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. Retaining existing employees is far more cost-efficient than hiring and training new talent. This is a dip in revenue that a company can’t afford to make in poor economic times.
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Strategic Alignment of Skills and Organizational Objectives
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. Use organizational talent reviews to assess an employees performance and potential in order to plan for the future growth of both the individual and the organization.
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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. We were nowhere near those numbers, and I believed it was a moral and business imperative to change my company. We do not see people like us succeeding in those companies. Why would we apply for your jobs?”
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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
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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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did
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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Why My Company Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees
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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The Case for Investing More in People
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.
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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)
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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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2018
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. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,
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Top 5 Manufacturing Trends for 2024: What’s New?
Epicflow
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. At the same time, they are vulnerable to cyber risks.
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Make Your Strategy More Agile
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. But companies have less and less time for them.
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Corporate Leadership Academy for Biotech Company
LSA Global
AUGUST 21, 2024
Net Promoter Score 95% Skill Adoption 92% Impact This global biotech company with a commercial footprint in 78 countries was looking to accelerate leadership and management development though a Corporate Leadership Academy for Biotech. The post Corporate Leadership Academy for Biotech Company appeared first on LSA Global.
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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components
Epicflow
JUNE 16, 2022
You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies And they’re right, but only to some extent.
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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?
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Aligning Organization Design and Leadership Talent
Kates Kesler
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Talent management and organization design are powerful allies. Most companies still treat them as two separate sets of activities. More companies should make this critical connection when looking for results in the areas of: Driving Major Change: Legacy leaders are a common limitation in implementing major organization change.
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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
From our view and experience, what underpins the success of these new ideas and approaches is the abilities, skills, and mindset of the company’s workforce. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. Help Employees Embrace Agility.
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Going Traditional or Going Agile
SkillQuo
JANUARY 6, 2018
Management consulting is oftentimes largely unattainable for companies that need their services the most. When should you consider an agile alternative? In traditional firms, the Partner who negotiated the consulting deal with the company, is not the one who is actually working on the project. Same Talent, Better Value.
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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With those gaps, companies must now focus less on the fixed supply of in-house people and more on the capabilities they need to get work done.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
Agile strategy can transform your organization. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success. Agile Strategy. Agile strategy is fast, flexible, and time competitive. The shift to agile strategy transforms the organization. Initiatives and measures of success are not tracked.
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Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success. Agile Strategy. Agile strategy is fast, flexible, and time competitive. The shift to agile strategy transforms the organization. Lack of engagement.
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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?
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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges
Epicflow
JANUARY 21, 2022
The trends shaping the automotive industry in 2022 will certainly have an impact on its companies’ projects. This poses a number of challenges for the automotive companies: increasing competition, frequent changes as a result of rapid progress, establishing partnerships with software companies, and other related issues.
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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. A business strategy aims to align followers and teams toward achieving a shared goal from the company's vision. However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness.
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Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
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. V12 is doing talent calibrations monthly.
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9 Tips for Freelancers Negotiating New Assignments
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2016
Just as organizational leaders have recognized their increased dependence on temporary external talent in tech and many other areas, a rapidly advancing number of professionals—in a broadening range of fields—have chosen to pursue a career as agile talent. Agile is different. You and Your Team Series.
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High Functioning Team Training for Medical Leads
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Net Promoter Score With an updated and aggressive growth strategy, this leading global life sciences company needed to: Reset and uplevel the value and impact of their Global Medical Leads. Improving situational agility. The action learning leadership development program results were: 92.4% Increasing self-awareness.
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Here’s Why Succession Planning Matters
Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 7, 2023
Strong and smart succession planning can increase company valuations and investor returns by 20% to 25%. This can help to retain top talent and ensure that the organization has a strong leadership pipeline. The absence of a formal succession plan is significant.
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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 5, 2023
A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees.
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69 Why Startups Like Uber Stumble Over Problems They Could Have Avoided
Harvard Business
JUNE 23, 2017
News this week that Uber’s CEO was stepping down likely was not a surprise to those who have been following the company in the headlines. In our work over many years, we have learned enough to know that you have to be on the inside of any company to have the full picture of what went wrong and how.
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132 Analytics Training Isn’t Enough to Create a Data-Driven Workforce
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2017
When it comes to creating a more data-and-analytics-driven workforce, many companies make the mistake of conflating analytics training with data adoption. Think about creating a leadership and development portal to house your company’s knowledge and to enable your team to easily share and learn from each other.
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129 Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team
Harvard Business
JANUARY 11, 2017
We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. But it’s not only their career stage that makes agile talent potentially excellent mentors. They almost always are.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2017
When HR becomes solely a talent race, boards and CEOs can miss the less obvious but equally vital value of managing both new hires and leaders who are facing increasing demands. Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later.
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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2017
Driven by a fear of losing out, companies in many industries have announced AI-focused initiatives. They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. And this isn’t the first time companies have made this kind of mistake. the parent company of Google.)
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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). Infosys Locations: 18 countries, 20+ cities.
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