Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Agile How To Efficiency Groups 142

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank.

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Agile Data Fashion Banking 133

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. Faster Decision-Making and Execution In product development, speed is often critical.

Engineering 88

Engineering Productivity Development Efficiency 88

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid). Jira Jira is a widely used project management software, particularly well-suited for Agile teams in the IT sector. However, as team sizes grow and project complexities increase, Basecamps basic collaboration tools may not fully meet the demands of larger, cross-functional teams.

Tools 130

Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Your ability to stay flexible, especially in your efforts for Learning and Development, are critical to allowing your business to have those quick-twitch reflexes to react and operate across different organizational landscapes. That agility to meet the demands of the market head on are what make companies successful.

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Agile Operations Meeting Development 147

Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

As we navigate this post-pandemic landscape, it’s clear that the future of leadership hinges on embracing change and evolving to meet new demands. This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy.

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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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Agile Methodologies Software Development 70

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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Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 75

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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Agile Software Case Interview Interviews 78

Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Your ability to stay flexible , especially in your efforts for Learning and Development , are critical to allowing your business to have those quick-twitch reflexes to react and operate across different organizational landscapes. That agility to meet the demands of the market head on are what make companies successful.

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Agile Operations Meeting Development 113

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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Operations Chemicals Data Agile 70

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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Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 142

Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Your ability to stay flexible, especially in your efforts for Learning and Development, are critical to allowing your business to have those quick-twitch reflexes to react and operate across different organizational landscapes. That agility to meet the demands of the market head on are what make companies successful.

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Agile Operations Meeting Development 100

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? ” (You might like Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master.). She's an agile project manager. When she manages programs, she's an agile program manager. See a ton more about this role in Create Your Successful Agile Project.) Scrum is not her job. That's fine.

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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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Talent How To Benchmarking Operations 161

Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To further scale the company and increase performance and profitability, the private equity firm identified the need to address operational inefficiencies, optimize the organizational structure, and develop a high-performing and agile leadership team. The process is becoming a new way of doing things, and people are embracing it.

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Agile Leadership Development Case Study 58

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

At other future-focused retailers, setting up autonomous, cross-functional teams to meet constantly evolving challenges is taking hold in different ways. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Insight center.

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Retail Operations Productivity Industry 138

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Therefore, before investing in certain technology, every company should have a clear idea of what their customers’ journey is, their behaviors, and expectations to make sure that transformed products or services will meet customers’ needs to the full. . Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations.

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Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 147

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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Data Operations Efficiency System 147

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a few words, the industry is going to evolve in three major areas: implementing recent technological advancements (Industry 4.0), finding ways to address post-pandemic challenges, and meeting sustainability requirements. Collaborative robots (cobots) work together with people and can learn to perform new operations. AdvancedTech.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

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Agile Data Development Industry 138

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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Energy Agile Productivity Talent 138

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged.

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Meeting Tools Survey Productivity 52

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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Agile Advertising Travel Consulting 88

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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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Just as the way for saying hello or good-bye, or exchanging business cards at a meeting differs by cultural context, so too can these critical underlying processes and procedures. Do a cultural inventory.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. They are also agile in course-correcting when the needs of the business change, and are more easily prepared to shift organizational resources to ensure that the strategy is executed.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Enterprise 138

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 142

Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Next time you’re meeting for a project for the first time, remember to communicate your attention through nonverbal cues. 5) Demonstrate agility As technology continues to advance at warp speed, it’s your responsibility as a consultant to keep up with the latest advancements in the field and effectively guide your clients.

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Consulting Agile Trends Industry 98

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. In addition, they also make sure that every project meets the established goals and delivers expected benefits.

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Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. Companies are also starting to adopt digital tools to streamline daily operations. Every business sector was disrupted and negatively affected by the pandemic and its aftermath.

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Consulting Management Agile Industry 88

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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Banking Film Strategy Strategy 133

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict.

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Cash Flow Transportation Energy Balance Sheet 138

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As part of the regulatory/governance/operational team at the senior level of the organization, if your org has one of those teams. Why do you think managers have hours and hours of meetings in a day? If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams. As part of product value teams. There might be more.

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Efficiency Culture Agile Management 84

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. Digital transformation requires new strengths.

Enterprise 75

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 75

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Although one of the main tasks of any software consulting project is to code the software programs, engagements begin with a meeting or field visit with the client to discuss their issues in detail. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

Software 88

Software Consulting Accenture Agile 88

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. In the context of business, these decisions are forged through meetings involving key stakeholders where strategic, operational, and performance-related topics are discussed and debated.

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Government Culture Ethics Agile 88