Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is a car which shows you mean business with head-turning good looks, agility, comfort and heaps of technology to provide a fantastic experience behind the wheel.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

and a development manager at Oracle Corp. She also manages JLL’s corporate offices around the world, with a focus on creating spaces that promote engagement, collaboration, and wellbeing. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. Prior to joining JLL, Bilbrey was the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Develop and foster agile learners – Much has been written about the importance of being open to new thinking and adaptable to the changing environment, and Osborne believes that leaders need to cultivate such a mindset in employees if a learning culture is to be developed.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Larsen explains how the Chinese conglomerate manages agility at immense scale.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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. They tend to take fewer sick days and are more economical to insure too. Higher Employee Engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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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. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

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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. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Regulatory environment. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The insurance industry has not been immune to AI’s advancement – whether implementing robo-advisors for investment management (Vanguard and Charles Schwab) or applying AI to insurance and loan underwriting (the Chinese search giant Baidu, which provides enhanced risk assessment capabilities).

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. More important, even if you managed to get all the spilled water on the ground back into the glass, at that point would you still want to drink it? Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

And malpractice insurance…” And on and on and on he goes. You then utilize your newly discovered verbal agility to speak their dialect. It’s a bad story: “The last guy who managed our money lost 40% of our portfolio. Do you know how many years you have to go to school to become a doctor? Do you know how much money it costs?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Train Employees for Management & Additional Responsibilities. Although the FMLA is one part of fixing the workplace, employers must remain agile to its challenges to continue to grow. Strategic recruitment and onboarding can help employers change expectations of how and where people work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Suppose you're a senior executive at a large financial services company such as Nationwide Insurance or ING. 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. Probably not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. Promote team engagement and effective cross-business cooperation. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. That’s still true. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Contextual insight. Security and identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Property insurance is a good example. Despite growing personal wealth and a taste among the rich for expensive cars, jewelery and art, the penetration of property insurance in China remains very low. Take consumer credit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. But how does a manager justify continuing to invest in AI if the first few initiatives don’t produce results? Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The lack of benefits such as health and life insurance and disability benefits has been an ongoing major deterrent to contingent work, but even that situation is changing. Insurance and other benefits can be obtained from organizations such as the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) at highly competitive rates.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Changing the way you think about stress can help you turn stress into an ally and use it to improve mental agility and work performance; a report in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that physiological and cognitive benefits result from thinking of stress as “functional and adaptive” rather than a signifier of “threat.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

That’s why I stress the value of a cyber risk management framework that begins by focusing on the business factors driving growth and profitability and ends with the technology infrastructure. Companies that can talk about upcoming changes and plan for them in advance can build adaptive, agile, and effective cybersecurity strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Consider a health insurance company that has been struggling with change programs gone haywire for quite some time. This company has demonstrated a repeated pattern of 3- to 5-year cycles where it launches a change program, takes awhile for managers to get behind it, and then more time to get it funded. How can you break this cycle?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Beginning at 8:45 AM, care teams and managers in our hospitals and clinics gather in more than 1,500 Tier I huddles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Whereas conventional change management approaches surmise that top team role modeling is a matter of will ("wanting to change") or skill ("knowing how to change"), the inconvenient truth is that the real bottleneck to role modeling is knowing what to change at a personal level.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when. Brand managers at P&G, for instance, get a constant feed of consumer sentiment from social media. Both are using methods ("agile scrum ") that enable quick, small changes to systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Today, for example, many banks, insurance companies and law firms are exploring how they might exploit blockchain technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape. Reusability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

One program providing health insurance to children in moderate-income families boosted the rate of new-business creation, raised new companies’ chances of survival, and increased the self-employment rate by 23%. It also just happened to be personally valid for me.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Cohen, a professor of management at Babson College and author of Influence Without Authority. Tread carefully with your manager. If you handle the situation with grace, your manager will be impressed. If you don’t, you “start to be the person who is toxic, and who doesn’t have the emotional agility to move on,” says David.

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