Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

Agility 133

Agility Insurance Influence Content 133

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors.

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

QAspire

DECEMBER 28, 2015

That was my mantra in 2015 and beyond. Unfortunately, technology has made consumption all the more easier which only adds to the problem. So my mantra for 2016 (and beyond) is the same as it was in 2015 – Consume Less, Create More. As we start a new year, I revisited this mantra and a few additional thoughts came to the fore.

Content 70

Content Learning-by-Doing Travel Creativity 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Because the hobby-to-business process is agile rather than step-by-step – you need to consider each of these areas over and over; you can refine your why as you go. And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever!

Simon 50

Simon Self-aware Call Center Agility 50

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

With advances in technology, mobiles are becoming more of a convergence device that replaces so many utilities (calculators, alarm clocks, small digital cameras etc.) And, we are not even talking about automated cars yet – the next big frontier for the technology battle! that we used otherwise.

Leadership 70

Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation transcends technology. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. The market in one of your locations can change at any moment, and you'll want to be agile enough to adapt and change with it. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

CEO 12

CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. Students also expect their institutions to deliver technologically enhanced experiences, yet higher education doesn’t always deliver. As part of their coursework, students are mentored by IBMers.

Education 8

Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Agile methods and Scrum are creating space for individuals to self-organize and work in iterative processes.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Develop mental agility. This quality of mental agility hinges on the ability to mentally “decenter” stressors in order to effectively manage them. The long-term payoff is that we preserve energy and prevent burnout over the course of days, weeks and months.

Stress 14

Stress Agility Globalization Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. By creating virtual teams that collaborate remotely, companies can expand into new markets without losing agility. They have greater flexibility to hire specialized talent and follow pockets of demand growth wherever they find them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film. RBS was also famous for its “strategy of not having a strategy,” being largely opportunitisic and reyling upon aggressive plays, agility, and audacity to outpace peers.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. But it just hasn’t happened.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. John is an advocate for technology and education in Colorado and has been an active contributor to the Colorado Technology Association (CTA). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Technology Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. In this volatile climate, the new watchword for business is "agility." Change is a four-letter word.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. They incentivize the wrong priorities.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8