Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Old-fashioned silos, defensive thinking, and lack of organizational agility are incompatible with business models based on delivering better experiences to increasingly empowered and demanding customers. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Enterprise 71

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 71

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

More often than not, a product roadmap is executed phase by phase in a linear fashion. It provides a powerful tool for managing agile workflows, and allows you to track and manage user feedback and requests after product launch. What this means is that the completion of one phase will trigger the start of the next consecutive phase.

Productivity 60

Productivity Software Fashion Development 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Luxury brand Burberry maintains microsites where customers share snapshots of themselves in their own Burberry coats, and streams exclusive fashion shows for younger users of its mobile app. Kimberly-Clark, for example, specifically designed its Huggies rewards club to attract and educate new parents.

Retail 71

Retail Apparel Media Fashion 71

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. He and Samuelsson looked to the fashion industry, hired craftsmen, and shook up the managerial ranks by hiring executives who had conceived and executed significant strategic shifts at bigger companies. Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

Talent 71

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

Operations 71

Operations Survey Fashion Efficiency 71

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. How the best companies get up to speed.

ROI 71

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 71

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. They were not agile enough. Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011.

Change Management 34

Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Understanding where your customers are and how to reach them in a seamless fashion is the cornerstone of any modern customer experience. The cloud space is really driving this agility. Unfortunately, by the time a customer typically reaches your contact center it means you have failed to deliver an effortless experience.

Fashion 29

Fashion Meeting Agile Strategy 29

Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find. This is an old fashioned approach and one that does not support the current and future reality of a fast changing workplace.

Automotive 20

Automotive Leadership Fashion Survey 20

Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find. This is an old fashioned approach and one that does not support the current and future reality of a fast changing workplace.

Automotive 20

Automotive Leadership Fashion Survey 20

Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Leaders who can skillfully maneuver the fast paced change of technology AND have increased agility in leading change and influencing teams to greater results is increasingly hard to find. This is an old fashioned approach and one that does not support the current and future reality of a fast changing workplace.

Leadership 20

Leadership Automotive Fashion Survey 20

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Like the dandelion, leaders should use a faster, agile, flexible mindset to explore and exploit new opportunities presented by constantly challenging the status-quo, even when they are growing. Faster than ever before, technology-led disruption is wiping out companies that rest too long on the laurels of their past success.

Leadership 126

Leadership Fashion Agile Conference 126

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

But it activated a cycle of continuous improvement and paved the way for more and better facility improvements in an ongoing fashion. This lack of trust prevented him from attacking challenges with speed and agility because his peers constantly questioned his decisions.

Financial 70

Financial Culture Leadership Report 70