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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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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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Does your organization have an enterprise architect or Chief Product Person? This image, from Agile and Lean Program Management , shows a small-world network. But, you say, the Enterprise Architect helps you. Here's the story of Pat, the Enterprise Architect. Pat, the Enterprise Architect, at Company 1.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

At IDEO, we believe that the most significant change often comes through social movements, and that despite the differences between private enterprises and society, leaders can learn from how these initiators engage and mobilize the masses to institutionalize new societal norms. His leadership team began with a search for purpose.

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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. See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. Or some other title.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation requires enterprise alignment.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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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

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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail.

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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. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. And yet it is possible.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Cisco has created a real-time, online dashboard where the entire marketing organization can look at performance.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change. .” There are people in the business community launching initiatives like I4J , a group that challenges the Silicon Valley tech community to “innovate for jobs.”

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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.

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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 Biotech Corporate Leadership Academy. Cross-Functional Leadership Designed for Senior Directors to improve cross-functional leadership.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013. Senior leadership has begun a journey to reset decision authority – notably in the opposite direction from Philips. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets.

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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. When companies do find a way to recapture the insurgent energy of a start-up, it’s usually because leadership has emphasized two things.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities. 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.

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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. Start with yourself and your leadership team. Your senior leadership team needs to model a thinking process that is faster and more agile, with decisions made more quickly.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Maybe It’s Time to Improve Leadership Mindsets at Work. Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. Leadership Mindsets versus Leadership Skills Can’t top tier leaders just focus on improving certain leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. A CEO’s best tool for success is a high performing leadership team. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. A stagnant executive team is a less effective executive team.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. Brimstone led the executive leadership team through our Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment process. Further, Brimstone partnered with the organization to hold two leadership summits. CASE STUDY.

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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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. In order to move up and over , CMOs need to foster new perceptions and expectations across the enterprise. Up : CMOs are promoted into new roles. ” 4.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market. There’s no time to lose.

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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? If an organization’s leadership is willing to champion a transformation project, the chances of success have dramatically increased.

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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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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While leadership teams readily get behind defining their core values and are hyped to set “big, hairy, audacious goals” (to use the term coined by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras), they may not realize how identifying their Core Focus can be an extremely effective strategic weapon in today’s competitive marketplace. It gets you excited.

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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. Some leadership teams inhabit these models as though they are second nature.

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