Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talent has progressed from a cost to be minimized to source of competitive advantage. Today, the authors answered these questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic challenged businesses’ operating principles? What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

BPD is important for endless reasons including; Proper Alignment of Operations with Business Strategy: To change or modify the business strategy usually requires improving multiple operations being performed by different people involved in a business. Augments Operational Effectiveness: ? Importance of Business Process Design.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In a market as competitive as today, employees also act as a competitive advantage. Businesses whose employees are happy produce better results and can be more agile on the market. Aside from the boost in agility, there are other reasons why happy employees are good for business. Fewer (Costly) Errors.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It assumes that we operate in a static environment Finally, the last issue with these either-or scenarios is that they assume a static model or environment; that what’s needed or required today will still hold true months or years from now.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How can managers generate competitive advantage from their cloud investments? Cloud-based solutions allow these firms to quickly and effectively identify, experiment with, and deploy external technical solutions without compromising operational efficiency. Agility is also a plus. To participate, please click here.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2014

With succession management so critical to driving a competitive advantage and securing a company’s future, what is hindering organizations from preparing for and feeling confident in their succession development efforts? As companies are operating globally, their ability to develop executives who can lead across borders is critical.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In a market scenario where competition is intense, this could help organizations gain a competitive advantage as the existing talent pool is able to meet future demands. Although the FMLA is one part of fixing the workplace, employers must remain agile to its challenges to continue to grow.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Learning as a competitive advantage. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. link] Elllen Weber Wow – Mike, thanks for the way you weave the parts together with such agility. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. Great insights Susan.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

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. He is responsible for Product Management & Marketing for Sage X3 globally, and is in charge of ensuring that the Operating Company (OpCo) teams are aligned behind the product strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Building on their team successes, they created an "Agility capture team" of senior IT leaders to address larger issues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform. Others are essential to running the existing business but don’t necessarily provide a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

They are effective organizational approaches to managing complex operations. We gave these systems names like culture , core beliefs, norms, tradition, shared thinking, or "just the way we do things around here" — each term describing factors that are so slow to change as to become assumptions that limited either strategy or operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. Given these shifts, organizations have to be agile, simple, and responsive. This is what is likely to make it more agile and responsive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions. Insurers should focus the case for a proof of concept on activities that require agility, automation, and continuous innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through superior strategic alignment does not happen by accident – it happens by design, or not at all, and it requires a special breed of leadership, which I call enterprise leadership. If that’s the case, you urgently need to address this gap in leadership focus and capability.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM) have gained competitive advantage in the first two, and the jury is still out on the third: Type 1: These are “pure” information goods, where digital natives rule. To start to answer that question, let’s tally up the score. Not, really.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. New ways to improve business productivity, flexibility, and agility are no longer just nice to have: They are essential for the modern workplace. The result: the reimagined workplace.

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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. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. General Electric Operations Strategy' and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Investment opportunities arise and disappear with alacrity — and woe to the CEOs who underestimate the risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. Once this was done, the executive leadership and CIO focused on implementing technologies that improve the company''s competitive advantage.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As a result, it can be a lasting source of competitive advantage. There’s a recognition that the best ideas come from the exchange and sharing of ideas between individuals and teams; Agile and adaptive. When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos. Take these examples: .

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America. Employers who embrace workforce mobility … have a competitive advantage.” Brynne Kennedy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

One is the ongoing impact of digitalization, which changes how operations and regulatory compliance are conducted. Restructuring traditional governance models is necessary to enhance strategic agility and resilience against emerging challenges. It also fosters a versatile and agile environment that readily adapts to change.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We make the case in our book Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work that human beings are hard-wired for relational connection. Emotionally, and physically, we feel much better when our bodies operate in an ongoing state of homeostasis. This fight is personal.

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