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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). (The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). Worse, they want to start with a tool. That's never worked. However, starting with a tool?

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. What organizations require a CPO? It’s also essential for a chief project management officer to have a good reputation as a senior leader.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? They create and refine the organizational culture to free the teams to solve those problems.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It takes a major cultural shift in the company. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. The willingness to experiment has to permeate the whole organization. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. 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. The results?

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

” Tim was worried about the cultural changes we needed to discuss for the client's ability to be more effective. Tim had good reasons to worry about those cultural changes. How satisfied are we with our people, product, and cultural leadership? If people don't come to your meetings, I want to know why.”

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

To build a high-performing team, leaders must take a thoughtful approach to defining and communicating roles across three levels: Level 1: Team Strategy Level 2: Team Culture Level 3: Team Talent Lets look at each level. Team culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing teams.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Yes, ask the cultural fit questions before you ask the technical skills questions. Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) They want to know if the work is something they want to do, and if the company culture is a good fit for them.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. See Throughput: Why Salary Costs Matter Less Than You Think They Do and Flow Metrics and Why They Matter for Teams and Managers for the details.) Instead, managers are supposed to coach people.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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The Source

APRIL 8, 2022

On top of that, they were less positive about every aspect we asked about, with the greatest downturn in perceptions of firms’ culture, innovation, and breadth of services on offer. Now, clients are more positive than ever—on average, 81% of clients describe firms in positive terms on the same metrics.

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

They purposefully and consistently align a companys strategy, culture, and talent so that everyone and everything is moving in the same direction for the same reasons. Are able to better track and assess shared performance metrics tied to overall business strategies. And being on one team with one plan pays dividends.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. In addition to ramping up technology savvy recruitment, CEOs face the weighty challenge of creating a cohesive, high-performance culture.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. a) Agility. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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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. And we believe that the HR practitioner has an important role in leading this work. An Example.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success. Are you fostering a culture of experimentation and learning to thrive amidst uncertainty?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

While organic growth typically takes more time, internal resources are typically highly aligned and integrated with a company’s growth strategy and culture. To succeed leaders must be able to engage and retain top talent from both companies, bridge differences in styles, values, processes, or cultures, and demonstrate ROI quickly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication. Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones. Harness the Power of Feedback Loops for Better Strategy Design and Delivery.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Leaders do not know how and are not motivated to work in a matrix – metrics and reward systems continue to reinforce lack of enterprise thinking. They have grown up moving through jobs that take them across regions, cultures, functions, and business models. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Here are the top ten benefits of a management assessment center: Explicit Agreement on the Leadership Competencies that Matter Most To accurately assess managers , companies must agree upon the critical few leadership competencies and associated micro-behaviors that matter most for success in the role for their unique strategy and workplace culture.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. The People Team faced a few complications: The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. Whether it’s a larger enterprise or a new brand, our research found that being agile and working across business silos is key for marketers to find and engage the right audience and motivate them to action. Beaudin: No. Size doesn’t matter.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Leaders must foster psychological team safety and a culture of transparency if they want employees to feel comfortable enough to express their true thoughts and concerns. Can your leaders encourage the agile mindsets at work required to successfully navigate change ? Are your leaders consistently and visibly walking the talk?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

3 Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned As leadership teams navigate through inevitable challenges and opportunities, maintaining alignment becomes paramount to achieving collective goals and sustaining a high performance culture. marketplace, strategy, structure, culture, talent, processes, technology, leadership, mindsets, etc.),

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