Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Agile 74

Agile Development Methodologies Software 74

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

Agile 71

Agile Metrics Productivity Resources 71

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Engagement scores: Use surveys to assess employee satisfaction and motivation improvements. Employee-Centric Metrics Employee-focused metrics provide insights into how L&D initiatives affect workforce engagement and development. Key metrics include: Retention rates: Measure changes in employee turnover, particularly for high-performers.

Metrics 147

Metrics ROI Training Training 147

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.

Agile 136

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 136

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

To prepare for and prevent the cyberattacks of the future, firms need to balance technological deterrents and tripwires with agile, human-centered defenses. Instead of “risk management,” we propose thinking of it as “risk agility.” When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

Training 129

Training Training Agile Enterprise 129

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Traditionally, they might get vendors such as Gallup to survey employee engagement. 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. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Metrics 132

Metrics Survey Software Operations 132

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve taught and written about agile distributed teams for several years. Now, I’m pair-writing a geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark Kilby. We’ll be talking about our process at Agile 2018 in an experience report. Mark created a survey: [link]. We’ve tweeted a little.

Agile 41

Agile Survey Report Consulting 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

In a 2014 global survey of Human Capital Trends conducted by Deloitte , 57% of respondents said that their organizations are “weak” when it comes to helping leaders manage difficult schedules and helping employees manage information flow, and that there is an urgent need to address this challenge. Develop mental agility.

Energy 132

Energy Agile Survey Training 132

LSA Global

APRIL 11, 2024

A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. Change management consulting experts define agility as the capacity of an organization to anticipate, respond to, and capitalize on internal and external changes.

Agile 36

Agile Culture Change Management Development 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

But according to a series of three surveys conducted over six years by Maddock Douglas, the consulting firm where I work, while 80% of executives know that their companies’ success depends on introducing new products and services, more than half agreed that their companies dedicate insufficient resources to support innovation.

Company 146

Company Agile Productivity Marketing 146

Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

Productivity 78

Productivity Management Strategy Strategy 78

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

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. This includes forums for employees to voice concerns via surveys (e.g., Concentrate on the unique cultural factors that fuel success.

Strategy 134

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Enterprise 134

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The company introduced an internal ambassador program for its more than 6,000 employees.

Marketing 134

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A recent survey found that 67% of companies that implemented remote or hybrid work policies in response to the pandemic expect these policies to remain in place permanently or for the long-term. Build Agility. It is also important to differentiate between acting agile out of necessity and acting agile out of design.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a survey of 77 of my company Frontier Strategy Group’s global clients, 88.3% in anticipation of interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.

Marketing 70

Marketing Agile Company Sales 70

BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. BCG recently surveyed 300 digital suppliers and their corporate customers in Germany and the US on the subjects of digital transformations and their success factors.

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the most frequently cited barrier to implementing strategy was culture. Companies in the survey cited several different cultural barriers that have impacted their strategic implementations. Harness the Power of Feedback Loops for Better Strategy Design and Delivery.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

To understand why many organizations fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and delivery, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), supported by the Brightline Initiative, recently undertook a global multi-sector survey of 500 senior executives from companies with annual revenues of $1 billion or more. Brightline.org/reports.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Survey 71

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. survey report. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Enterprise 71

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 71

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?

Company 71

Company Survey Operations Productivity 71

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.

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 70

Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2021

With no time for planning, we were forced to innovate, to be agile , and be more human. Rather than make a decision for employees, the company decided to conduct a survey and ask where employees would like to work. When it comes to the way forward, there is no “right” path.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 71

Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Certain qualities, such as deep domain expertise, decisiveness, authority, and short-term task focus, are losing their cachet, while others, such as humility, adaptability, vision, and constant engagement, are likely to play a key role in more-agile types of leadership. Here’s a closer look at these competencies: Humility.

Leadership 71

Leadership Agile Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility. We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

Talent 131

Talent Company Culture Bain 131

LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Things Always Change, and Strategies Must Be Agile Enough to Keep Pace By the time most strategies make their way from the board room to the frontline, things have changed. Agility in strategy means that companies are always in motion, analyzing performance, making course corrections, and seizing new opportunities as they emerge.

Strategy 63

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 63

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

To answer these questions, we surveyed 1,200 HCL employees and analyzed their social networks and demographic data. Here is an instance: An employee whose team was not using agile-development techniques heard of their value from one of his virtual mentors and decided to learn more about it. Is there a payoff for individuals?

System 70

System Media Agile Tools 70

Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

Consider conducting focus groups or distributing surveys to get customer feedback, and pay close attention to what is said in the reviews you are getting online. Third, be flexible and agile to respond to customer needs. Is purchasing activity decelerating? Are product or service choices shifting?

B2B 76

B2B B2C Trends Agile 76

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? In addition, customer data — whether through surveys, sales trends, or customer service reports — can reveal dissatisfaction with products or services.

Strategy 63

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Trends 63

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

Drones rather than people can conduct pipeline inspections and constant, real-time site surveys in oil field development. For resource companies, particularly incumbents, navigating a future with more uncertainty and fewer sources of growth will require a focus on agility. A lot more is possible.

Resources 71

Resources Industry Energy Efficiency 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Bain’s recent survey of sales and marketing leaders at more than 1,700 companies found that 85% of companies believe that their pricing decisions could be improved, yet only 15% believe they have the right tools and dashboards to do this. Raise the game in pricing. Almost all B2B companies could do better on pricing.

Sales 130

Sales B2B Tools Software 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Companies that can talk about upcoming changes and plan for them in advance can build adaptive, agile, and effective cybersecurity strategies. A survey we recently conducted suggests that this kind of contingency planning is not taking place in many companies. How will you communicate with the news media and your customers?

Insurance 70

Insurance Insurance System Data 70

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 28, 2021

A recent survey finds that although nine out of ten executives envision implementing a hybrid model going forward, only one in ten organizations have begun to communicate and pilot their vision. It has forced innovation, forced agility, and enabled accomplishments that previously had been unimaginable.

Guidelines 61

Guidelines Policies Agile Survey 61

QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Move from an established company to an agile company How many meetings have you been attending were the same topics pop up over and over again? “We We need to be more digital and agile; those who do not change will not survive!” “How do we create a more agile organization?” But how do you do that?

Company 11

Company Consulting Agile Talent 11

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

I found that 98% of the workers I surveyed over the past 20 years have experienced rude behavior and 99% have witnessed it. When Christine Pearson and I asked people in one survey why they were uncivil, more than 25% blamed their organization for not providing them with the basic skills they needed, such as listening and giving feedback.

Training 71

Training Training Survey Report 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. As companies modernize their IT infrastructure, they are looking to gain flexibility, scalability and above all, speed. Are IT organizations ready for the challenge? The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform.

Operations 71

Operations Survey Fashion Efficiency 71

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

So with customers expecting more personalized, agile, and on-demand delivery, insurers are now racing to keep pace and deliver more relevant solutions for a changing user landscape. This speed and agility allows the insurance industry to match stride with would be disruptors in the digital age. Inability to attract new customers.

Insurance 60

Insurance Insurance Case Studies Case Study 60

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

A recent survey of leaders across companies with under $10m to over $1bn in annual revenue identified the following negative consequences associated with ineffective leadership communication: 52% reported higher stress levels. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career.

Leadership 52

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52