Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, we sit down with Dennis Stevens, an enterprise Agile coach and founder of OrgWright with 30 years of experience. We discuss the evolving relevance of Agile principles and practices, particularly in the context of the post-pandemic business world.

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Simon Associates

JANUARY 12, 2023

I also talked about the workshop I conducted for Eric Buehler's November 2022 Enterprise Agility Global Conference on how to adapt an organization's culture during fast-changing times. You can view the slideshow of my workshop here.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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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). Enterprise Processes. Agile Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many enterprises use “digital” to change how they interact with clients, but that’s too limiting. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Explore the position papers that detail the steps to becoming a digital enterprise. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

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MBO Partners

APRIL 25, 2018

Four ways organizations can overcome barriers to successfully engage independent professionals and become more agile in today's competitive business environment.

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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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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. Ensuring organizational resilience and agility in a dynamic business environment.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

This means that most enterprises don’t have many staff dedicated to research. The ability to interpret data can be useful in many contexts, and allow young professionals to learn in a more self-directed, flexible, and agile way. How can the ability to interpret research papers put young professionals a step ahead?

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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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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Functional infrastructure would be elevated to the enterprise level, or pushed down into the regional, anchor operating-unit level. a) Agility. 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

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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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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

The program was designed as an intensive experiential development journey, fostering agility in self-awareness and self-development, the capability to positively influence others, and to serve as an effective enterprise change leader. The overarching structure contained three segments: leading self, leading others, and leading change.

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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. The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team’s success.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

To prepare for and prevent the cyberattacks of the future, firms need to balance technological deterrents and tripwires with agile, human-centered defenses. The offensive players only need to win once to wreak incalculable havoc on an enterprise. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

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] ). 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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use throughout the web and increasingly within the enterprise, handling everything from initial call screening for sales prospects to scheduling. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Artificial intelligence.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to honing in on individual business units or lines of business, a few questions can help clarify tradeoff decisions and ensure an enterprise view: How unique are the businesses? Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? What is the right level of integration? Organization Shape.

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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. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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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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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Cloud vendors, such as Microsoft Azure , are investing in building open tooling for enterprise blockchain networks , which will see widespread adoption of blockchain in the enterprise. Furthermore, many believe the cloud will make it easy for businesses to build blockchain applications. For one to succeed another does not have to fail.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Existing solutions, particularly those that have been around for decades and have woven themselves into processes all over the enterprise, can be surprisingly sticky. One of the almost ubiquitous risks of any digital transformation initiative revolves around the legacy technology the project will either augment or replace.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Many of these failures were either fueled by or lost in the byzantine maze that is the modern enterprise, which often breeds a combustible mix of indifference and short-termism. Firms should not embrace ethical leadership or risk agility out of fear of failure or mere compliance. Complex systems fail in complex ways.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2024

Leading Enterprise Designed to help SVPs and VPs to amplify their value and impact by completing their transformation to strategic contributor and leader.

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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

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. As organization designers this trend intrigues us.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 4, 2024

From startups venturing into uncharted territories to established enterprises seeking innovative strategies, here’s a comprehensive look at the benefits and invaluable assistance that marketing consulting services offer. Marketing consulting benefits businesses of all sizes and types.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2018

In recent years, we’ve come to associate the practice of innovation with speed and agility, but accomplishments that truly move the needle can’t be achieved quickly or through mere iteration. One reason for the emphasis on agility and iteration in recent decades is that technology has been fairly stable. .”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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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 iterative approach enhances project agility and significantly reduces the chances of project failure.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In addition to formal organizational changes, leaders can reduce burnout and raise enterprise productivity through softer interventions. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Therefore, if you want to grow your company or already have a big enterprise with many products being developed, product portfolio management is a great instrument for it. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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