N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” How can algorithms be used to create a better or entirely different kind of experience?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In traditional hierarchical organizations, managers direct the work of subordinates and thereby ensure alignment with broader organizational goals. Spans of control are limited to a reasonable number — typically eight people or fewer — so that managers can effectively oversee their subordinates’ efforts.

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