Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. At the internal launch event, Dr.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 19, 2024

Large Corporations and Enterprises Large corporations and enterprises often undergo complex organizational changes, such as mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, or digital transformations. Increased agility and adaptability to market changes. Facilitating cultural alignment and change readiness.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The company grew through brilliant marketing, brand acquisitions, innovation and a decentralized geographic set of business units that helped create an entrepreneurial culture out in the markets. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure.

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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. This takes time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. Concentrate on the unique cultural factors that fuel success. They also responded to items that corresponded to the Leinwand et al. framework, as detailed below.

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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. 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] ). Advertise successes.

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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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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2024

Building High Performance Teams Designed for every people leader and their intact teams, this highly customed action learning program focused on creating strategic alignment , optimizing people resources, and building a boldly inclusive and high-functioning team aligned to the company’s unique culture. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Together, these structural and cultural factors lead to fragmented calendars and even fragmented hours during the day. With Agile approaches, teams focus on fewer, more critical activities. Weak time-management disciplines.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

The CEO immediately recognized the need to improve the culture and reenergize the organization. This supported the culture change and increased the organization’s stock price by 170%, along with the rollout of two breakthrough drugs and associated treatments.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, before embarking on your digital transformation journey, it is a good idea to ask yourself the following questions: What could enterprise digital transformation mean for my business? This is why organizational culture plays a crucial role for such projects. What key processes need to be digitalized?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. The work of support and operating functions like finance, marketing, supply chain and human resources must change to leverage these technologies, and do so in a way that serves enterprise objectives, as well as the needs of individual businesses.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2024

Building High Performance Teams Designed for people leaders and their intact teams, this highly customed action learning program focused on creating strategic alignment , optimizing people resources, and building a boldly inclusive and high-functioning team aligned to the company’s unique culture. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 29, 2024

Example : A manufacturing company planning to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system faced significant challenges. Example : A retail chain undergoing a merger faced the challenge of integrating two distinct corporate cultures and operational systems.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. But taking full advantage of it requires significant cultural changes.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. And you need to go to those meetings to pass judgment on their decisions, prevent people from making mistakes, and in general guide everyone's work. Or some other title.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

On the client side, Kristian Skjellerup, Director of IT, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Compliance & Controlling at Falck. This is due to consultants being submerged into different teams and cultures. This is where agile methodologies come in. From Keylane, Chief Development Manager, Martin Thuesen.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation requires enterprise alignment. Digital transformation presents immense commercial opportunities, but even when an enterprise recognizes the potential, it is not guaranteed. Find out in this.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Indeed, I’m not sure I’ve met a CEO who has made learning more central to the corporate culture than Ridge has, or has found more ways to develop a thirst for learning among his colleagues. WD-40 is an unlikely setting for such a learning-obsessed culture. It is hardly a glamorous brand, but it is iconic in its own way.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Let me tell you, our large enterprise clients’ processes are highly dependent upon software. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? As he told us, “Creating a culture of performance and results is pivotal.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. And yet it is possible.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. This is what enterprise alignment looks like. Enterprise purpose: What do we do and why do we do it?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

No longer can leaders coast along the same old paths; you need to reimagine the journey forward and invest in the leadership capabilities required to create more innovative, agile , and resilient teams and organizations. The Bottom Line Strategic plans should be living and evolving documents.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities. In what Gartner calls a third era of enterprise IT, existing investments must be rebalanced and combined with new, disruptive technologies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise. Fight Through Discomfort for a New Culture. Finally, you need to ensure you’re building a culture that supports the type of digital transformation you want to achieve.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

The firm knew it had to build its internal design capabilities and believed its newly merged team represented an agile shortcut superior to hiring digital design agencies or recruiting people to build a department. In fact, he said, his team’s successes led to loosening some of the more restrictive enterprise practices.).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Can a large incumbent company rediscover how to act like an agile start-up? Behaving like an agile start-up implies speed, a sharply defined mission, and a deep understanding of customers. Micro-battle teams use agile ways of working to achieve narrowly focused missions, not sweeping divisional priorities. rosmaro/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

To ensure the workplace transformation delivers expected business benefits, organizations must address the “people” aspects of change – culture, behavior, ways of working, and user resistance. Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

It’s not the work order for the enterprise. For a lot of organizations, the cultural risk and vulnerability that come with transparency, and that kind of accountability, is too big of a change. You won’t get the risk-taking you want in the culture. How do OKRs differ from, or complement, an Agile system?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions. How the best companies get up to speed.

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