Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Setting up an Agile based environment for any work group or business. Overview: An agile environment organizes the resources of an organization in a more adaptive and disciplined way. Through new roles and a few rules any organization or group can become more agile. Agile Concept. User stories.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Moreover, as global markets expand and new business opportunities arise in distant lands, car transport providers play a pivotal role. They ensure fleets can seamlessly transition into these new markets, allowing for rapid scalability. This, in turn, saves considerable resources, both in terms of time and money.

Transportation 102

Transportation Management Efficiency Long-term 102

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

Marketing 50

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The information should be accessible for any relevant person and it should be structured logically, so that everyone in an organization relies on the same, up-to-date information and is able to use it efficiently. The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture.

Enterprise Architecture 50

Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

To streamline this emphasis on skills, we developed My Career Hub, a tool that creates a skills profile for EY people, allowing them to market their qualifications and experiences across EY and identify gaps where they want to build competencies. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, many, if not most, employers will wake up to the realization that what they have done in the past will not work going forward. Some companies, particularly start-ups, will not even consider hiring an employee full-time, before s/he has completed at least six months as a contractor.

Trends 100

Trends Forrester Agility Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Agility Team How To Project 15

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. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. When it comes to short-term incentives….

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

The nature of the workforce is rapidly changing and this new wave of employees is not only getting accustomed to a mobile and agile workforce but are starting to actually expect it. With the advent of new apps and agile frameworks, mobile collaboration is becoming easier by the minute.

Strategy 50

Strategy Tips Agility Globalization 50

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. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. When it comes to short-term incentives….

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back.

Chief Technology Officer 74

Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 74

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

A quarter-century ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act , designed to provide workers up to 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave. At the end of the day, their bottom line depends on employee productivity. Here’s something to ponder on: Employers invest time and resources hiring and training employees.

Learning Curve 40

Learning Curve Training Short-term Competitive Advantage 40

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments One Response to “Project Management Best Practice 7 – Use of Administrative Support&# Alexandre Gauthier says: December 8, 2010 at 11:08 am A lot of team members in a project find it painstakingly difficult to feed information to other members of the team.

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Project Management Newsletter Diversity 56

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

And, on December 1 coming up, I''ll post my selection for the best new book about leadership in 2014. Because the list is a couple years old, it doesn''t include some of the latest best leadership books. Even so, these classics listed below remain relevant today. Top Books About Leadership. Top Books About Leadership.

Books 79

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 79

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional. On top of that, they would end up the process feeling more confident and ready to start (or drop the idea once and for all). 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. Marketing mix. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear. Customers.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

I certainly have my opinions on the subject ( jump to my comments at the bottom of this post ) , but I wondered what other leadership experts believe is the most important leadership competency from their experience. There are many leadership pearls wrapped up in the complexity of all sorts of leadership books.

Leadership 102

Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. Its iconic phrase, “bottom of the pyramid,” entered the English lexicon. What was the result of this stirring cry a decade ago?

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Then, select one or more for your summer reading list.

Books 92

Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. It was the modern combination of internet and venture capital that changed people’s minds, by opening up a new source of breakthrough innovation: high-growth startup companies. Others percolate from the bottom up.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share. ” Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Innovation. We were wrong.

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Team Bottom-up Long-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything. And rudeness in the workplace hurts the bottom line.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Top Books About Leadership.

Books 50

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Then, select one or more for your summer reading list.

Books 61

Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 61

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. While he's able to grin about it now, before Agilent spun off from Hewlett Packard in 1999, Barnholt and his colleagues learned from some of the largest failures in HP's history.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Our startup, Pivotal, calls the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood home, alongside companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Adobe, Slack, Salesforce, and Uber. Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. After all, this is California.

Company 14

Company Bottom-up Long-term Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. And so the reengineering movement was born.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Take, for example, the role of a marketing manager or executive in a consumer products company. A marketing manager is well educated and well compensated—he or she plays a critical role in driving sales by tailoring corporate strategies to specific products and markets.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Baby-Step UX : By now, your organization has probably dipped its toe into the app market with mixed success.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline. Managers must speed the flow of information so that decisions can be made faster at all levels, from top to bottom.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

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. Jugaad innovators innovate better: Jugaad innovators recognize that consumers in emerging markets are low earners, but high yearners.

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

By now we’re all familiar with examples of small and lean digital companies popping up out of nowhere and outcompeting larger, established companies. In fact, as companies grow profit-wise, they may even end up shedding employees as technology advances. Well, no, actually. Look at Yahoo or even eBay.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

This puts immense pressure on the organization to keep up with the competition while trying to innovate in its own right. Optimize marketing efforts to achieve influence at scale. The tech staff at companies like Google, Facebook and LinkedIn use agile, iterative development techniques to deliver improvements fast.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

A white paper published by the Workforce Institute and produced by Circadian, a workforce solutions company, calls absenteeism a bottom-line killer that costs employers $3,600 per hourly employee and $2,650 per salaried employee per year. Check out this world map on Wikipedia to see where your country stacks up.). Not necessarily.

Company 8

Company Absenteeism Policies Bottom-up 8