Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

In our experience, and this is backed up by research, there's a direct relationship between the agility and resilience of a team and the transparency of its decision­ making processes. As a leader, your responsibility is to document the key decision paths of your organization and communicate them to your team as often as you can.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking. The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Strategic planning in business assumed an existing playing field and known actors.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Agile innovation teams are small. billion, Amazon’s stock price rose 2.4%

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Is digital technology a democratizing force, allowing smaller, newer companies to compete against giant ones? has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago.

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Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

How accurately can we anticipate the future given today’s emerging technologies? In one scenario, traditional manufacturing collapses under the strain placed on it by 3-D printing and heightened speed-to-market practices and is largely replaced by local manufacturing networks. Take 3-D printing. A Low End of ‘Beta Tests’.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. While he's able to grin about it now, before Agilent spun off from Hewlett Packard in 1999, Barnholt and his colleagues learned from some of the largest failures in HP's history.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

To explore this question, over the course of six years, we surveyed senior-most leadership teams 99 times at companies representing a variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, energy, technology, healthcare, and retail. We expected to replicate the importance of cohesion in this unique context. We were wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

They have a defined brand and a fairly clear picture of market penetration, differentiators, and existing products and services. It tells investors why you might succeed in this particular market or in creating a new one – and who could come nipping at your heels. Competition Information & technology Strategy' Use social media.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. Participants of the network have a shared vision of a more equitable talent marketplace driven by emerging technologies and evolving data standards.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Baby-Step UX : By now, your organization has probably dipped its toe into the app market with mixed success. Just look at the. $1

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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