Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2023

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how. As such, a company’s comprehensive knowledge is often unaccounted for and difficult to organize and deploy where needed in an effective or efficient way.

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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. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In the enhanced training program, Clarity Consultants utilized advanced analytics to tailor the training content to the real operational needs of the environmental services corporation. This approach was complemented by the development of narrative-driven modules that mirrored day-to-day tasks and decision-making processes.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. These tools enable organizations to deliver training programs efficiently, track learner progress, and measure the impact of L&D initiatives. Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. The post Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 17, 2024

The Rise of Digital Technologies The onset of digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and cloud computing has drastically changed how businesses operate. For management consultants, this means adapting to new tools and methodologies to stay relevant.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 17, 2024

The Rise of Digital Technologies The onset of digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and cloud computing has drastically changed how businesses operate. For management consultants, this means adapting to new tools and methodologies to stay relevant.

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Consulting Management Ethics Agile 130

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? Contact us to learn more about its advanced capabilities to optimize CPO’s work.

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Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. It also requires investment, agility, and teams capable of running experiments, and should be typically guided by the CEO or CSO. IT modernization .

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

In the digital age, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to gain a competitive edge and streamline their operations. From enhancing customer experiences to optimizing decision-making processes, AI is reshaping the way businesses operate and opening up new possibilities for growth.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how many companies operate and handle various tasks. Instructional Design Consultants Use AI-Driven Tools to Evaluate Learner Progress Instructional design consulting firms that use AI often harness the technology to support the effective and efficient evaluation of learner progress.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But if employees have long been valued and rewarded for behaviors such as practicality, consistency, self-reliance, and prudence, why wouldn’t they find it uncomfortable to suddenly embrace behaviors such as innovation, agility, collaboration, and boldness? This same phenomenon operates not just individually, but also organizationally.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). As part of the regulatory/governance/operational team at the senior level of the organization, if your org has one of those teams. As part of product value teams.

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Efficiency Culture Agile Management 84

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Energy Agile Productivity Talent 134

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. As a result, the efficiency of city maintenance in Paris has increased by 20%, allowing the Paris civil service to perform 140,000 repairs per year. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. On the business side, the escalation process has provided improved visibility into operations.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

This method is widely used online to accurately and efficiently target customers and sell customised products and services. The first company to identify emerging demand trends and tailor its operations to delivery can quickly establish itself as the go-to source for particular goods or services” ( EY, 2016 ).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

But what are the challenges that IT leaders are encountering as they try to keep pace and try to transform process and operations while the business is evolving? Driving digital transformation really means driving rapid, efficient, and high-ROI responses to those changes. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host. Max De Ycaza, IBM.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

Too many distributed teams operate as people in silos, handing work off to each other. If the team hands off work, they're working in resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. for ways to use lifecycles other than waterfall or agile. Agile approaches assume a collaborative approach, including with the PO.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. They are also agile in course-correcting when the needs of the business change, and are more easily prepared to shift organizational resources to ensure that the strategy is executed.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

In doing so, you will be able to solve issues more quickly and efficiently, allowing you to build an appetite for decoding complex problems and keep your stakeholders happy. Agility is therefore a core skill that you should work on. To boost your agility, consider in agile work management methods like Kanban or Scrum.

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Consulting Agile Trends Industry 98

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Cindy operates in a regulated industry.).

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. Companies are also starting to adopt digital tools to streamline daily operations. Every business sector was disrupted and negatively affected by the pandemic and its aftermath.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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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. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead. Experts and Optimizers work together to work out the details and find the efficiencies. Do they have not only mental ability , but mental agility. You want people who are able to unlearn and shift their thinking.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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Data Agile Enterprise Government 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The use of heuristics is then reinforced by operationalizing evidenced-based care into protocols, procedures and checklists designed to increase efficiency and reduce variation in process. To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics). The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. Digital transformation requires new strengths.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 71

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled. When a real Factory of the Future arrives, it will not look different because we have automated the processes we use today.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

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