Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. What can I do?”

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 41

Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even so, many project-driven organizations still operate with a bevy of spreadsheets in a siloed environment. Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Accelerate operational impact. Ensure business agility.

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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.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 29, 2024

Whether it’s adopting new technologies, restructuring operations, or shifting strategic direction, change is inevitable. Example : A manufacturing company planning to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system faced significant challenges. This is where change management consulting services play a crucial role.

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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. We worked with a large oil and gas company with operations spread across North America.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

Additionally, the leaders did not see themselves as having decision-making power and they operated in organizational silos. Together, these issues were negatively impacting the operational efficiency of the organization and employee engagement. By: Kate Lee In Case Studies Posted April 15, 2020 Revitalizing a Public Sector Business.

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Development Case Study Case Studies Study 65

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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How To Agile ROI Tools 52

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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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

Innovation is of great importance to corporations as new methods can be used to operate more effectively and efficiently, which can ultimately impact profitability. This means that most enterprises don’t have many staff dedicated to research. This is occurring in all fields of knowledge, but some are making more progress than others.

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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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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model. 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?

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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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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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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?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). IT Operations.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. When it is clear that senior leaders need to operate at a higher level to succeed, an underutilized performance lever revolves around the leadership mindsets at work that drive key behaviors and actions.

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Leadership Agile Enterprise Tools 36

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

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. It’s a familiar story.

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Operations Data Engineering Software 28

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment helped the executive leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and unify the group around a single strategic view of the business and its future.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Leadership 66

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

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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. Silo-based Perspective Research by Accenture found that found that de-siloed teams that operate fluidly are 28 percent more likely to achieve the highest levels of growth.

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Leadership Construction Accenture Agile 36

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. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 28

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. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

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Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. In three years the progress is impressive, especially in the healthcare sector.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And even within individual categories, you’ll find a diverse cross-section of SMBs, multinational enterprises, boutique firms, and even solo freelancers – plus a wide range of business models and organizational structures. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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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. In what Gartner calls a third era of enterprise IT, existing investments must be rebalanced and combined with new, disruptive technologies. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As we coach businesses using the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®), we help our clients consider each component in turn. This is tremendously powerful for agile and successful decision-making! For instance, suppose you are top-notch in providing enterprise applications for the institutional investment industry.

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Leadership Agile Enterprise Operations 52

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 28

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

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. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Enterprise 51

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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. That’s still true.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Instead of supporting a few business processes, a managed services provider provides end-to-end operational support and enhancements for a seamless end-user experience. CXaaS operations are typically managed by a third-party partner on behalf of a brand. What are the top reasons to work with a managed services provider?

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Management Operations Comparison Case Study 26

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

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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