Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The HR and finance groups within a university installed a new software system to automate tasks and have better information for decisions. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation. Agile software development would be another example of a process framework.).

Six Sigma 60

Six Sigma Agility Franchising Airlines 60

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

On the latter, we will be carefully observing how developments such as Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies — and, more broadly, the entrance of hedge funds and large institutional investors — will affect the landscape of startup financing. Still, being astute and agile does not guarantee immunity to disruption.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses. People in finance at GE, typically focused on return on investment and payback periods, love FastWorks because they get a better throughput of ideas.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8