Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Strategy #7: Get Focused, Fast, and Flat. Move away from the traditional matrix organizational model in favor of agile customer-focused teams supported by platform capabilities. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. They must fundamentally shift how they find, inspire, and develop a twenty-first-century workforce.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

But for boards to excel in a way that encourages business performance, agility, and innovation, Board Directors need to understand the levers they can pull to be more impactful and make a greater contribution to the overall effectiveness of the Board or Chairs need to make changes in the Boardroom.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

My research led me to develop the six-step process that allows companies to outsize: (Copyright Steve Coughran, Used by Permission). What are a few of the common mistakes you see in formulating strategy? If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy.

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Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

The insights and the workshops have since influenced how Mars assesses risks and opportunities and develops strategy. This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI). To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.

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Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

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? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. Through my executive coaching work (and my own experience), I’ve developed a few conversation-centered techniques that help. And it hurts your image as a leader. Is that right?”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary.

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