Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

When an organization stops learning they begin dying. it is also an illusion to think that the higher you go in an organization the more control you have hence the decisions should be somehow easier. link] Elllen Weber Wow – Mike, thanks for the way you weave the parts together with such agility. Great insights Susan.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. 2) Make Virtue an Organizing Principle -. The 5 building blocks of collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As organizations grow and become more global, it’s crucial that they develop these skills in their local talent so that they can work effectively across cultures. CTI’s 11-market study (of Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S., Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Like many other wealth management businesses, BTFG had grown both organically and through acquisitions. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Today we face a set of unprecedented disruptions under the “sustainability” banner that are driving deep change in organizations (indeed, the HBS paper is mainly about the rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer). Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. Engage the entire organization. Our relocation to China stretched our thinking. Our teams back in Stamford still have goals and deadlines to meet.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

” For example, one of Berlin’s clients, a Fortune 25 company, has integrated mindfulness techniques into its high potentials program with the goal of creating agile and flexible mindsets as a foundation for leadership. “There was this one instance where the market tanked and there was panic on the desk. Mindfulness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. At the time, in 2011, we already had over 300 non-U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

As a business term, “unicorn” was coined to describe a rarity: In 2011 there were just 28 early-stage companies, still privately owned, with investment valuations of $1 billion or more. 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 Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. We call this new dynamic "customer insurgency." What does this mean for leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. ” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7 The need for investment in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In an upcoming book and in a recent article in Harvard Business Review , my coauthor Christopher Zook and I identify the qualities of “the founder’s mentality” and show how all organizations, even those whose founders have long retired, can harness its vitalizing effects. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

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