quickpoint: Strategy and Leadership
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Leaders must fashion sound strategies for the enterprise, and the organization itself must be agile enough to adapt as required.
Making Sense of Speed, Agility and Innovation
Leading Blog
APRIL 26, 2016
Or what about being more “agile.” Agile was originally a software technique, meant to shorten software development times and make the development team more accountable to customer needs. From there, everyone is adopting the concept of “agile.” There’s agile marketing, introduced by thought leaders at CMG.
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You Don't Need a Change Management Plan
leaderCommunicator
MAY 23, 2022
Be more agile. Act in a more transformative fashion. While that plays out in the background – or more often, foreground – we’re also telling employees on a regular basis that they need to be bolder. Shift their mindset. Think disruptively. That’s a tall task.
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Why change leaders need a coach
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 14, 2020
So, responding in an agile and flexible fashion to that world requires clarity, more than ever before, is vital. We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Throw in the massive disruption caused by the current pandemic, and change aplenty abounds! Because it is how good you are going to be, that matters.
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The Best Leadership Books of 2022
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2022
In classic Lencioni fashion, Pat brings his model to life in a page-turning fable that is as relatable as it is compelling. And, counterintuitively, they illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy helps companies to be more agile and flexible, enabling educated, motivated people and teams to thrive. Blog Post ).
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You Need a Transformational Business Coach
Lead Change Blog
MAY 24, 2019
Today, as cycles of technology, market conditions, and competitive environments continue to accelerate, responding in an agile and flexible fashion to that world requires clarity, more than ever before. We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. However, how do you get better in the face of increasing complexity?
Integrating Agility with Stability to Innovate
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 30, 2017
When I moved on from being a high powered corporate retail executive almost thirty years ago, I took the entrepreneurial leap and initiated a design management consultancy to serve the Australian fashion and lifestyle industries.
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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption
Skip Prichard
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Navigate through Change.
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What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part Two)
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Being agile and ready to bend and adapt to changing circumstances is an absolutely vital skill set to develop if you want to have a career that’s as frustration free as possible. And do you want to advance in that fashion anyway? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Be Resilient and Relentless. Fortune favors the flexible and the fervent.
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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Be dynamic and agile, not routine and static – most “strategy” firms offer inflexible, rigid, complex and time consuming approaches that eat up resources and yield only limited value. We believe company culture is something that should be designed in a deliberate fashion as a part of any strategic planning program.
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Innovative Solutions for Modern Apparel Fulfillment Challenges
Strategy Driven
JULY 5, 2024
Challenges in Apparel Fulfillment Demand Variability: Apparel retailers often face unpredictable changes in demand due to fashion trends, seasons, and promotions. Collaborative Supply Chain Networks: Building partnerships with suppliers, logistics providers, and retail partners can create a more agile and responsive supply chain.
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Is “thought leadership” just the same as good leadership?
Chartered Management Institute
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Written by Brian Bloch Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email --> It has become a fashionable concept, but is “thought leadership” anything new? Article: Is “thought leadership” just the same as good leadership? And could the term have unintended, negative connotations?
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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. The frustrations with current planning practices intersect with another fundamental managerial trend: organizational agility. But if planning and agility are both necessary, organizations have to make them work. The future could be planned.
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15 Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 9, 2015
Some templates include accounting firm, bank, bar, cooking, educational, family, fashion, general business, salon, and vehicle services. Robotic Process Automation works effectively in an agile development environment. Appsbar contains various templates users can choose from based on the purpose of the application.
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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 20, 2020
Pizza companies and fashion houses making face masks. I believe this is a time where we can be most effective shaping rather than predicting it, by planting seeds that will nudge us towards a realistically better future, but doing so with a lot of agility and flexibility. Gin distilleries and breweries making hand sanitizer.
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Four Ways to Market Like a Startup
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2013
In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time. Marketers need to become ever more agile and flexible to succeed. But "big" is often cumbersome and slow. Here are four ways to pick up the pace.
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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2017
However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” ” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content.
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15 5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach.
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15 Surviving a Start-Up’s Transition from Projects to Processes
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2014
It is the ad hoc nature of the project that enables the flexibility and agility required to capture the first real customer. Most entrepreneurs understand that they need to be flexible and agile in order to figure out how and what potential customers will buy from them.
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Four Ways to Market Like a Startup
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2013
In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time. Marketers need to become ever more agile and flexible to succeed. But "big" is often cumbersome and slow. Here are four ways to pick up the pace.
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Leading Rookie Talent: A Sizing Guide for Stretch Assignments
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2014
They work lean and agile, the smart way all professionals should be working in the current, constantly changing environment. The best feedback comes in small doses and quick bursts, typically delivered in drive-by fashion rather than formal meetings. And, they are hungry.
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Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2017
Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Old-fashioned silos, defensive thinking, and lack of organizational agility are incompatible with business models based on delivering better experiences to increasingly empowered and demanding customers. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.
Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 8, 2014
In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort — and in having products better match customer needs.
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Scaling Your UX Strategy
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2013
It's the "new black," to borrow from a fashion phrase — as well as a reference to its influence on profitability. Instead, inspired by the startup market, many businesses are experimenting with lean, agile product development processes, which benefit from customer insights, participatory design, and prototyping.
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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2015
They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Over the course of a year, we built strong case studies in fashion, design, and technology. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.
Why Companies Are So Bad at Treating Employees Like People
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Few disagree that the time is ripe for reimagining complex organizations so that they are more human and more agile. The historical record shows a mix of better and worse attempts to achieve neither too tight nor too loose but “just right” control, a word that is as out of fashion as it is accurate.
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8 5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2015
For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Finally, these companies are not trying to simply become agile. Starbucks is a classic example.
A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2015
The basis of competition through time will always be marked by phases of heightened, even fashionable views on how to compete in certain situations. Moreover, the network and ecosystem movements have not supplanted efficiency, scale, and quality on the menu of choices business leaders have when determining how to compete.
How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 4, 2017
Luxury brand Burberry maintains microsites where customers share snapshots of themselves in their own Burberry coats, and streams exclusive fashion shows for younger users of its mobile app. Kimberly-Clark, for example, specifically designed its Huggies rewards club to attract and educate new parents.
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8 You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2015
Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Holacracy, inspired by Agile software development , is optimized for adaptation, making these types of adjustments as a matter of course.
How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2018
Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. He and Samuelsson looked to the fashion industry, hired craftsmen, and shook up the managerial ranks by hiring executives who had conceived and executed significant strategic shifts at bigger companies. Gerald Lord/Getty Images.
What Digital Change Demands of IT Organizations - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.
Make Your Team Less Hierarchical
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2015
Where once our communications happened in a point-to-point fashion that mirrored our org chart, now our day began with a video teleconference where thousands from around the world would hear and share the latest information available. This is the model that any large organization will need in today’s world.
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8 What StitchFix Figured Out About Mass Customization
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2015
Take fashion as an example. As they search for a new formula to stay relevant in a fast-moving environment, up and coming, more agile players are emerging with solutions to the unmet needs of today’s retail consumers. Brick and mortar retail experiences have barely changed in decades.
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Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. Steve has personal experience around building a new brand in a mission-oriented fashion. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have.
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8 How to Support Employee Health Instead of Sapping It
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
A wide range of studies have found a direct link between physical movement and mental agility. All of these practices feed employees’ intrinsic need for learning, enabling them to pursue new interests in a self-directed fashion, fostering both autonomy and personal development. Facilitate physical fitness.
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Learn to Become a Less Autocratic Manager
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2015
Today’s knowledge workers demand what leadership experts call a “post-heroic leader”: one who is emotionally and intellectually agile, able to modulate their style as needed from authoritative to collaborative—and back again—in order to optimize team performance. Coaching Giving feedback Leading teams'
In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2013
It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Alternatively, they attempt to innovate in a lean fashion, but they are slowed immensely by numerous requests for budget, little tolerance for failure, and a general disregard for "experimentation.".
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12 How Meditation Benefits CEOs
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
” For example, one of Berlin’s clients, a Fortune 25 company, has integrated mindfulness techniques into its high potentials program with the goal of creating agile and flexible mindsets as a foundation for leadership. Jonathan Tang, founder and CEO of VASTRM fashion, first introduced meditation to his staff after 9/11.
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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2015
The argument for the inclusion of the business community went like this: corporations have the combination of skills, resources, motivation, and agility to implement changes on a global scale. One of us wrote a book addressed at business titled Getting Green Done.
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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2015
Supply-chain speed and agility sharply increase when information is shared across the network. And our experience over the years at BCG is that a business that can deliver value twice as quickly as its competitors will grow twice as fast and be three times more profitable. Improve information flows. to 2% of the shelf price of most products.
Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 7, 2017
Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. How the best companies get up to speed.
Why the Lowly Dandelion Is a Better Metaphor for Leaders than the Mighty Banyan
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2017
Like the dandelion, leaders should use a faster, agile, flexible mindset to explore and exploit new opportunities presented by constantly challenging the status-quo, even when they are growing. Faster than ever before, technology-led disruption is wiping out companies that rest too long on the laurels of their past success.
Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2015
Mrs. Winchester did not use an architect, and all of the work was done in a haphazard fashion. In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. Sponsored by GE Corporate.
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