Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

To me, “product owner&# was just an agile title for the guy who fed requirements into the dev team. The owner makes sure his product meets market needs. I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). I’ve always considered myself the latter. Become the owner of your products.?

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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.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

You need to be able to move when needed and respond quickly to changes in the market. Flexibility in the way businesses operate can take many forms, but adaptability and agility are increasingly becoming key attributes in competitive enterprise scenarios. Be Flexible With Flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. No company is immune; no market niche is safe.

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Ask Atma

APRIL 20, 2012

Here are three examples: To attempt something difficult and come short does not make you a loser but rather brave. An example of this is the act-analyze and adjust methodology. Become more agile: have regular big picture sessions where you evaluate progress or the lack thereof and be ready to pivot, repurpose, reboot.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Integrate your digital skills with operations, marketing, and all the other kinds of functional expertise a business requires. The key to this approach is the agile team. In most situations, research shows, agile works better than traditional methods of project management. National Public Radio (NPR) is an example.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

Take a new competitive threat for example… (SENSE) Sales people might hear and observe their customers’ reactions to that threat – as might your market researchers, call center folks, external market experts, and even your finance team as they watch the erosion of market share and revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Especially without strategic clarity, employees are unsure if they should focus on speed or quality, efficiency or innovation, for example. Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; soccer, for example. C-level jobs have become less circumscribed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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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. In one example, nine healthcare providers worked together to improve the experience of patients getting hip and knee replacements work redesign.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Here’s an example. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The idea isn’t new — it’s well established in online advertising, for example — but its application is becoming more widespread in the private and public sectors. Consider these examples: Education. Typically, the results are defined after conducting market research and engaging with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. For example, DNA is formed at conception. Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. It is also necessary in a tight labor market where companies need access to all available talent in order to grow and be competitive.

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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. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Large pools of capital have been funding risky ventures since antiquity (for example, when the wealthy Marcus Crassus backed an upstart Roman general named Julius Caesar). Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This often causes board disruption and sends damaging signals to financial markets. Classic dysfunctional examples include organizations where the company founder dominates board discussions and stifles all attempts to change and modernize the company or alter the composition of the board (i.e., poor team dynamics).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Supply-chain speed and agility sharply increase when information is shared across the network. These are just the first-order costs of congestion. The second-order costs are even greater. Improve information flows.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Financed by VC firms. Uber alone has raised more than $10 billion from VCs and similar financial backers to date.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. And, once it is built, they have a stake in its success." Technology: Determine the right mix of tools and technologies.

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