Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. In traditional organizational structures, teams often operate in silos, where each department focuses on its own specific objectives and tasks.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For example, compliance training can integrate scenarios showing both compliance successes and failures, reinforcing key principles through relatable characters and situations. The combined approach led to a significant reduction in the training time required for new hires, thereby enhancing the agility and proficiency of the workforce.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how many companies operate and handle various tasks. For example, it can identify whether a user is struggling with a particular subject and then steer the learner to additional materials that provide clarity. By doing so, learning becomes more engaging.

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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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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, by increasing the age at which people are required to take minimum distributions from retirement, how might this affect other choices? For example, what impact might it have on how people think about claiming Social Security? We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0,

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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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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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

For example, the performance of swim, track, golf, and gymnastics teams is a function of what its members do as individuals. Examples include basketball, football, and soccer teams. Teams operate best when they understand, believe in , and commit to a meaningful and shared purpose.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. For example: Why do we analyze data? Why is data quality important?

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Some examples of relevant KPIs include: Revenue growth: Track changes in overall revenue or revenue per employee over time.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Tools and technology: Operating systems, languages, anything specifically technical.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly.

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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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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. Here are some of the examples. AI-driven applications).

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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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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. Depending on the digital maturity level, a company may need not only to apply new technologies in day-to-day operations, but also to re-architect them entirely. . This category describes the purposes for leveraging digital technologies. . IT modernization .

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

You’d think that in today’s global economy everyone would be attuned to cultural differences — but as we’ve seen in the examples above, this is not necessarily the case when it comes to underlying processes, procedures, and systems. Make your leaders aware of cultural differences. Do a cultural inventory.

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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. Here are some examples of how the solution helps CPOs in their work. What organizations require a CPO? What is a CPO’s salary?

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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. Another example is how the huddles allowed us to better track caregiver injuries and patient safety issues.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match. The decisions of the firm are ultimately more specialized, agile, cost-effective, and client-centric.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As my colleague Ian Ziskin has noted, an entrepreneurial, agile, and performance-driven culture is not a substitute for an ethical, courageous, and people-friendly culture.

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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. Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. That failure is not due to a lack of trying.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Because operational managers are closer to the action, they have better insights into specific business challenges and customer pain points that can be addressed by new technologies. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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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? Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. Because large enterprises’ business operations live in software. Download this podcast.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

We asked them for examples of creativity in marketing that go beyond ad campaigns and deliver tangible value to the business. For example, Intuit’s marketing team spends time with self-employed people in their homes and offices to immerse themselves in the customer’s world.

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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. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. The global/local tension.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One such example is Connected Home, a unit set up by British utility company Centrica to build “smart home” appliances. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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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

JUNE 24, 2016

For example, consider the way we think and talk about an organization. For example, social media has changed the nature of marketing. As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead. As an example, say you are hiring new sales team or adding to an existing team.

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