Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. 7 Keys to Executing a Successful Business Rebrand. About the Author. What are you thinking?

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Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Some kids are skipping college entirely and heading straight into business, pointing to the success of dropouts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Hear me out.

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Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. Other key findings from the study on talent management include : .

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Human Resources Leadership Development Resources Development 106

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. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid : Leading Your Kids to Succeed in Life by Tim Elmore Tim Elmore understands the development of young people like few others do.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Look deeper.

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Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Similarly, telling workers what to do at every turn won''t lead to the degree of agility that organizations now need.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Break the silos between HR and Procurement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

Those earlier experiences are an important study in building teams, breaking ground on behalf of mission success, and successfully integrating new groups into the established order. But the path to this day began decades ago, with the women have already served and sacrificed on the battlefield alongside Rangers and SEALs.

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Team Operations Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. Define Your Strategy.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Getting Started.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous. Value flexibility.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our development team went Agile. Crucially, we redefined success. In each of the first seven months of 2013, PBS.org topped ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox as the most-visited network TV site, according to comScore. ” Crucially, we delivered business results.

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

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