Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. The shift began in 2010. What made this change possible? First, a sense of urgency.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Best Leadership Books of 2011. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Blog Post ).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. The Debrief Imperative : The Secret Tool That Is Transforming Businesses The World Over by William M.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

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 oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Joel Garfinkle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. Sodexo created its Global Agility program, which includes a series of initiatives and training modules that are designed to promote cross-cultural competence and connect business units and leaders in its 32,700 sites worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

In 2011, with 605 new Wipro employees across three different operations centers as our participants, we conducted a field experiment testing whether an authentic approach would lead to greater performance and retention than the traditional entry approach.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. 5) Operational Transparency -. Transparency is organizational honesty. Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. Operating on a smaller scale means you have a core group of customers, so make sure they know how much you value their business by connecting with them through their preferred method. Consider leaving a comment!

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Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Technology Long-term 50

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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Document Business Model Execution Company 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

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. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

When Intuitive Surgical launched the Da Vinci System medical robot — which allows surgeons to operate using 3-D visualization and four robotic arms — the company faced significant technical as well as demand uncertainty. For example, who would have predicted that medical robots would perform surgeries?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yet the reality is that data centers are essential — not just to tech businesses but to any organization that uses the internet to operate (that covers nearly all of them, doesn't it?). It's still about efficiency, it's still about flexibility and agility," he said. We all face the same problems, it's just a difference of scale.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow.

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