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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Today savvy business leaders are prioritizing complex problem solving skills in hiring rather than old domain knowledge, and emphasizing agile team problem solving over traditional planning cycles. 2: Disaggregate. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Improving Cash Flow: By the same token, it’s important that businesses keep their cash flow situation agile and not over-allocate resources to projects that aren’t aligned with market conditions. Break down demand by demographics, product lines, regional differences and any other statistical segments that matter.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.