Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Our misunderstanding of this issue makes us believe that a management-driven hierarchy with competent executives at the top ought to be able to guide an organization to move faster, be more agile and thrive. A new book, "ACCELERATE: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World," by author John P. It can''t anymore.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the event, there was a policy-related discussion that hints at an upcoming opportunity to learn about the Horizon Europe program for entrepreneurs; the opportunity is slated for info days 2021, which is between June 28 and July 9. These days signify the annual flagship event on research and innovation for the European Commission.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2019

At a recent event from consultancy firm Arthur D Little, an entrepreneur explained how he had participated in several corporate accelerators and incubators, with all but one doing little but waste their time, money and effort, none of which any startup has a limitless supply of. Keep an eye on agility metrics within your innovation process.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 20, 2015

Many new entrepreneurs talk-the-talk of the entrepreneur — but their thinking is still grounded in their life as an employee. New entrepreneurs must learn to continually question their assumptions. Agile Strategizing. If we've spent our life in a classroom, we tend to think as a student or teacher. You need an edge.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2019

The standard thinking is that entrepreneurs can sweep into an industry, plundering as they go and sweep away the established order of things. Achieving this dual operating system approach is a topic that has been covered at length elsewhere.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. 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.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. British economist and journalist Evan Davis chats with business leaders and entrepreneurs in this long-running radio program from the BBC. INSEAD Knowledge. Deloitte Insights.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It’s the eternal question that every new entrepreneur faces. Bringing new tech into the office is an essential step to maintain your agility on the market. Failure to stay on top of your maintenance schedule or to follow the operational instructions for the machine can affect both your production and the safety of your employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Leadership insight #9 : To improve agility, we need to strengthen our curiosity, which requires making time from work routines. Leadership insight #9 : To improve agility, we need to strengthen our curiosity, which requires making time from work routines.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In addition, two other Board Members – Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (entrepreneur) and Vivian Chi FCMI (barrister at law) – were present to share their personal experience and explained the benefits in engaging multidisciplinary professionals in leadership and management best practices. Like this article? Why not share it.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Usually, entrepreneurs have lots of ideas, but it takes them time to really implement them. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Worldwide, the number of start-up offices in those top 20 ecosystems that are second offices outside the initial ecosystem or founding headquarters that were moved rose more than 8.4X (!) from 2012 to 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

This means internal R&D activities must increasingly shift towards becoming crowdsourced , taking advantage of the wider ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and entrepreneurs. The third business model is creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurs. With the entrepreneur ecosystem, we are behaving more like a Silicon Valley startup.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The Future of Operations. At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. This will inevitably have a significant impact on operations. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

Prior to COVID19, it seemed like nothing could stop the trend towards leaner, more agile businesses. Agility is still a highly desirable trait in many, if not all, businesses. Many businesses had their operations disrupted through a lack of supplies. Your supply chain plays a huge role in your success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Lean was designed to inform the founder’s vision to operate at speed, not as a focus group for consensus for those without deep convictions. In short, lean was an answer to a specific problem, one that most entrepreneurs still face and that ebbs and flows depending on capital markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. General Electric Operations' GE is an icon of management best practices. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

That''s what entrepreneur Steven Ma is betting on with his company ThinkTank Learning, which "makes bets on student admissions the way a trader plays the commodities markets." The doctors could essentially use the model to do a dress rehearsal before the operation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Agile minds are our richest resource for sharpening our competitive edge. Patients undergoing complex heart operations, clients getting legal advice and venture capitalists investing millions in entrepreneurial teams might understandably want to know the cognitive health of their doctors , lawyers and entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. 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. and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Holacracy, inspired by Agile software development , is optimized for adaptation, making these types of adjustments as a matter of course.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. The realities of operating in large companies mean that this is far from always true.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

November is National Entrepreneurship Month and, as someone who works with small business owners on a daily basis and knows how hard it is to grow a business, I can’t overstate how much I appreciate the creativity, innovation and hard work of today’s entrepreneur. Way to go, entrepreneurs! What about product-based businesses?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Many pre-funding startups – the primary audience of Lean – are built on nights and weekends by entrepreneurs who are driven by a need to change the world. Similarly, large companies are finding themselves equally burned by loose and lean as they were by agile or long-launch waterfall.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments. With the right operating mechanisms in place, shared consciousness can scale across the enterprise. This article first appeared in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Newly acquired startups and their leadership teams largely think of themselves as entrepreneurs, not employees. Acqui-hires desire and expect some measure of autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. It’s not very agile.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

small business owners had finally stabilized, there’s cause for entrepreneurs to be optimistic. Towards this end, tomorrow’s smart and successful entrepreneur will have their bases well-covered on these five fronts in particular: 1. Operating with transparency used to be a luxury versus a necessity but, now, it’s quite mandatory.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. And, of course, it would have to learn how to operate in India, a notoriously complex market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Entrepreneurs must persuade others of the value of an idea or company which has yet to take concrete form. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Frank and Oded Netzer (Wiley, 2022) Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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