Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2013
IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". Ramp up distinctive digital capabilities quickly.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2016
With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2017
While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Read their job requisitions.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Tetra Images/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2015
” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.”
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2017
These core competencies are the baseline for any PM and the best PMs hone these skills over years of defining, shipping, and iterating on products. Finally, social awareness ensures the best PMs service their customers with a product that addresses their jobs to be done which is ultimately what drives product market fit.
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