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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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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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. HR Processes.

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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

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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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Individuals and teams must gain insights into what works and be rewarded for sharing know-how with the betterment of the entire enterprise in mind. Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. While the size and circumstances of Jet.com’s deal are atypical, one clear takeaway stands out: These types of acquisitions aren’t about procuring talent; they’re about producing impact.

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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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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

To support this change effort, the CEO engaged Brimstone to help embed the desired culture and rethink and refresh the organization’s strategy starting with the executive leadership team and enterprise strategy and then rolling out a similar process to the other business division. The impact of this program was significant.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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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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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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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. The business targets and processes they co-manage, and the nature of talent that staff these new roles, are all part of bringing global organization to life. The top executive teams in successful global companies spend time together, sharing the enterprise leadership role.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Advances in platform technology are helping organizations make strides toward long-standing goals of agility, simplicity, and cost savings. The transformation of platforms from complex and expensive stacks of hardware into flexible computing resources represents a major step toward enabling business agility. Click HERE.

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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. While you’re reskilling your current workforce , you’ll inevitably be hiring new talent. Otherwise, you’re not able to fully tap their talents—and they might leave.

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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). Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? Results from our research indicate that while concepts like internal cohesion and psychological safety are important to team performance, they are not the most critical at the enterprise level. What are the key tensions? Both are pivotal to ongoing success.”

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A CXaaS managed services provider offers end-to-end management of CX and employee experience operations and continuous optimization for global talent (e.g., Agile outsourced support from day one : A case study on end-to-end outsourced support that delivers best-in-class results. It needs a strategic solution.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model? By addressing these questions, enterprises can truly change the way employees work and make IT an invisible enabler of change. The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Living: Business will combine external awareness and a highly agile organization that continually reshapes and adapts to a volatile market. Fluid: Companies source and manage their workforces by accessing the best talent at the right time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent.

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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. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. However, the pace of global business now often precludes doing traditionally rigorous diligence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

For example, the consumer durable goods manufacturer (example two) chose to push its data and analytics across a broad swath of the enterprise, even though the business momentum was in the areas of product connectivity and consumer engagement. Each of these four models has pros and cons — and not all of them work equally well.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. So they want to accelerate new product introductions and feature releases, and quickly get them into the hands of customers to get their feedback.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Software talent: The IT talent in industrial companies can execute projects oriented towards process efficiency and cost reduction. That talent is ill-suited to develop new, breakthrough software products that offer superior customer outcomes. If so, how can the industrial giants compete to attract the best talent?

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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. And yet it is possible.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

Think for a moment about people as tiny enterprises. They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing).

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Do we have the right talent to analyze and act on that information? 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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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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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Whatever their circumstances, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup’s research were those who excelled at turning each individual employee’s talent into high performance.”. To get ahead and stay ahead, companies need agile, flexible, innovative leaders who can anticipate change and respond to new realities swiftly.

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