Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Data overload, siloed data, lack of communication systems , or a central tracking system can all contribute to a lack of clarity and direction.

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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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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. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. 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.

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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. What reports do we need? “What” questions (What are the results? What data is missing?),

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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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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors. Key financial metrics to consider include: Revenue growth: Track increases in overall revenue or revenue per employee that can be attributed to improved skills or knowledge.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Implementing a common structure across all markets meant adding new people and costs in some of the smaller markets, like Costa Rica and Guatemala, and requiring one person to report into multiple people at headquarters. Do a cultural inventory.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you’re not into podcasts, reading white papers and reports is another great way to brush up on your knowledge. 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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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. What is the difference between a Chief Project Officer (CPO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO)? What is a CPO’s salary?

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

” Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw detailed how presumably white members were using Nextdoor’s crime and safety forum to report “suspicious” activities by African Americans and Latinos. Their first attempt at fixing the problem was simply to add a report racial profiling button. ” Insight Center.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

Innovation is of great importance to corporations as new methods can be used to operate more effectively and efficiently, which can ultimately impact profitability. That is why business students can benefit from producing research and learning how to critically analyse reports.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Later, Brocade followed up with these customers to report on progress against these objectives. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” The results? They realized they had to think beyond marketing as promoting an existing product.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

While the heuristics-based approach is logical at one level – given the operational and cost pressures faced by health services – the impact on patients is that too many receive multiple diagnoses and treatments, without recovering. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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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. .—while The soaring U.S. No one will be able to afford to stand still.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). IT Operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

They rely on backward-looking sales data and broad-brush reports to calculate overall market size and gauge how many reps they need and where to assign them. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools.

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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.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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. Adopt Agile Frameworks: A transformative governance structure should be adaptive so that it can respond to a rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Businesses that could afford more staff support were all too willing to load them in, while those that operated on tighter margins were often under-served, leading to a very inconsistent approach to talent development and other key enablers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Other areas, however, may benefit from standardized approaches.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Traditionally, finance professionals have relied on a multitude of sources for market news including economic reports, company updates, earnings reports, and management presentations. The bottom line NLP is bringing about a paradigm shift in the way that finance professionals operate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. But when circumstances change, the business model must shift as well.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

An exceptional leader we know would occasionally get a question from his direct reports in a variety of forms but with the common message, “Do you want this done fast or right?” Many organizations are looking for ways to become more agile. Direct reports felt they were on a mission and that what they did was essential.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Resource producers, increasingly able to deploy a range of technologies in their operations, can access mines and wells that were once inaccessible, raise the efficiency of extraction techniques, and shift to predictive maintenance. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Are your leaders agile and willing enough to adjust strategies to seize emerging opportunities even if it means shifting focus from what has been historically successful? Leadership should not ignore feedback from staff who are closest to day-to-day operations. Often, they can provide valuable insights into what is not working.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. But can these organizations adapt fast enough? Over a third (39 percent) are moderately digital.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Uber is one of them: Its valuation rose to a record-setting $68 billion just seven years after its founding, despite reporting losses of more than $700 million in the first quarter of this year. Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility.

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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. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Strategy as learning requires senior executives to engage in an ongoing dialogue with operations across all levels and departments.

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