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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, clients dreaded the disruptive monthly releases such that one large client had to deploy a 70-person crisis management team to manage the fallout of each monthly release. Founded in 1997, the company deployed large batches of changes to its application each month to its entire customer base for many years.

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When Your Company Has a Problem It Can’t Ignore

Harvard Business Review

Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. Crisis management Ethics Leadership' An unignorable moment calls into question the identity of the entire organization and raises upsetting questions: Who are we?

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She faced her greatest challenge during her posting in Jakarta.

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Midsized Firms Can Survive a Cash Crisis

Harvard Business Review

To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. Crisis management Cutting costs Small/medium business' Many midsized companies maintain woefully inadequate general ledger information. But nonetheless, the company was low on cash. The CFO couldn’t understand why.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

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Fixing a Weak Safety Culture at General Motors

Harvard Business Review

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Auto industry Change management Crisis management Failure Leadership Manufacturing Operations'

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Nokia's Voyage From Tight-Knit Team to 'Burning Platform'

Harvard Business Review

This executive crew finally began to break up in 2004, with the departure of Baldauf, who had run Nokia's network equipment business. Around Nokia, you don't hear so much talk about Jorma this or Jorma that. It's almost always Matti and Sari and Pekka and Olli-Pekka and Jorma, or some combination.

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