Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Is the reuse of content governed by an organizational rights and royalties management mechanism? How has your company modified its legacy metrics to address digital products and services?

Media 86

Media Metrics Education Insurance 86

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Their responses overwhelmingly prioritized redefining organizational structures, realigning decision authorities (governance), and reinventing processes. Without hesitation, their explanation of the knowing-doing gap is: Structure, process, and governance are “tangible” — action there is easier to demonstrate and measure.

Strategy 72

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Government 72

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

Strategy& 72

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Company 72

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities. The important lesson: don’t let the discussion around governance degenerate into a debate over centralized vs. decentralized organization.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” Govern through transparency to engender trust and enhance cross-business cooperation in delivery. Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones. Don’t just assume your people will “get it.”

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Government 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

How To 70

How To Film Productivity Development 70

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

Leadership 141

Leadership Agile Policies Tools 141

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

A PMO, or Project Management Office, is a centralized organizational structure that standardizes project management practices, processes, and governance to ensure projects are executed efficiently and align with strategic business goals. Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects. What is a PMO?

Tools 130

Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130