N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. It is time to INNOVATE – It is time to drive out the complexity, elitism, rigidity, waste, and ruined careers from the current one-size-fits-all strategy paradigm.

Strategy 150

Strategy Strategic Planning Innovation Competitive Advantage 150

QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Agility is the key to good planning. This helps you remain agile. In a way, these lessons also map with the fundamentals of agile planning. In my view, Agile is not just a software development methodology, agility is also a mindset. Further, for longer projects, you cannot plan the entire project together.

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Quality Planning Execution Agility 132

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In addition to improving existing programs and practices, the effort led to a dedicated diversity talent acquisition team and greater HBCU and HSI partnerships, a sponsorship program to support career advancement, and other programs. What would you say have been the most interesting transformations in your career?

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Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Over the course of my career, I have seen the business world transform and certain powerhouses, think Amazon, Apple, and Uber, redefine the business model to capture incredible value. Other companies turn strategy into a big annual leadership retreat. Leadership Tip: Be vulnerable. Steve Coughran.

Strategy 80

Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 80

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The two men went way back.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. Insight Center.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade. Experiment aggressively, and challenge business model assumptions. IT management Leadership Marketing'

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Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 9