The document describes the journey of a company transforming from a traditional hierarchical structure to a self-managing organization model called "The Fractal". It started with high costs and inefficiencies due to bureaucracy and management overhead. Various change initiatives failed to improve performance. Finally, splitting into autonomous virtual companies with integrated resources and activities improved metrics like quality, delivery, and profitability while reducing headcount. The model empowered individuals and removed non-value-adding intermediaries.
This chapter discusses global human resource management challenges. It covers how cultural, legal, and economic differences between countries affect HRM practices. Some key topics discussed include selecting and training expatriate employees, developing a global HR system, different international staffing policies, compensating expatriates, and characteristics of international labor relations. The chapter provides best practices for implementing a global HR system and improving expatriate assignments through careful selection, training, and benefits packages.
This document discusses making a business plan a "living" document by focusing on goals, action, and measuring results. It emphasizes setting 90-day, 6-month, and 12-month goals and ensuring they still fit the business vision. Business owners are advised to focus on what is supporting growth now as well as what is impeding it. Goals should be specific, measurable, and have deadlines. The business plan should be regularly reviewed and updated based on performance data and market changes.
Lean Mythbusting for Staff, Managers and Executives.Stephen Parry
This document summarizes a presentation given by Stephen Parry on applying Lean principles to service organizations. The presentation covers how traditional functional organizational structures can create problems for end-to-end service delivery. It discusses the importance of adopting a Lean service work climate focused on understanding customer needs, continuous learning and improvement, empowering frontline staff, and collaborative problem solving. Case studies are presented showing how organizations have transformed their performance and culture by shifting to this Lean approach.
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If your company needs to submit a Business Consulting Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further. Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. http://bit.ly/39WHbXn
Federal Heath_Qualifications 2016 (Email Version)Nicole Weaver
Federal Heath is a signage company that has over 100 years of experience helping brands communicate through visual solutions. They specialize in multi-site projects, program management, manufacturing, and maintenance. Their expertise spans industries like retail, petroleum, automotive, and more. Federal Heath prides itself on seamless coordination, on-time and on-budget deliveries, and ensuring customer satisfaction through their talented employees and commitment to excellence.
"Change" is the New Normal - Building a Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Progra...SAP Ariba
The saying goes, “The only constant is change.” This is all the more true when it comes to sustaining a strategic sourcing program. With rising commodity costs, globalization, and regulatory pressures, procurement teams struggle to sustain savings alongside a plethora of tactical responsibilities.
Join this session where industry leaders will share how they navigate and manage their strategic sourcing programs in today’s ever-changing environments.
Engineering Construction C-level ExecutiveArnon Garonzik
Arnon Garonzik is an experienced executive with over 30 years of experience in engineering, construction, environmental services, and international business. He has held roles such as President, CEO, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer for various companies. He has experience turning around struggling businesses and growing companies through strategic planning, business development, and mergers and acquisitions.
This document summarizes Lloyd Parry International's approach to designing adaptive organizations. It discusses their Adaptive-Business-Framework which includes four phases: design, engage, adopt, and adapt. The framework aims to make organizations more engaging of customers, better at learning and sharing intelligence, strong at leadership, and able to continuously improve. It provides examples of how the framework has been applied to case studies of organizations and measurement approaches. The document is authored and copyrighted by Lloyd Parry.
This chapter discusses global human resource management challenges. It covers how cultural, legal, and economic differences between countries affect HRM practices. Some key topics discussed include selecting and training expatriate employees, developing a global HR system, different international staffing policies, compensating expatriates, and characteristics of international labor relations. The chapter provides best practices for implementing a global HR system and improving expatriate assignments through careful selection, training, and benefits packages.
This document discusses making a business plan a "living" document by focusing on goals, action, and measuring results. It emphasizes setting 90-day, 6-month, and 12-month goals and ensuring they still fit the business vision. Business owners are advised to focus on what is supporting growth now as well as what is impeding it. Goals should be specific, measurable, and have deadlines. The business plan should be regularly reviewed and updated based on performance data and market changes.
Lean Mythbusting for Staff, Managers and Executives.Stephen Parry
This document summarizes a presentation given by Stephen Parry on applying Lean principles to service organizations. The presentation covers how traditional functional organizational structures can create problems for end-to-end service delivery. It discusses the importance of adopting a Lean service work climate focused on understanding customer needs, continuous learning and improvement, empowering frontline staff, and collaborative problem solving. Case studies are presented showing how organizations have transformed their performance and culture by shifting to this Lean approach.
Business Consulting Proposal PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
If your company needs to submit a Business Consulting Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further. Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. http://bit.ly/39WHbXn
Federal Heath_Qualifications 2016 (Email Version)Nicole Weaver
Federal Heath is a signage company that has over 100 years of experience helping brands communicate through visual solutions. They specialize in multi-site projects, program management, manufacturing, and maintenance. Their expertise spans industries like retail, petroleum, automotive, and more. Federal Heath prides itself on seamless coordination, on-time and on-budget deliveries, and ensuring customer satisfaction through their talented employees and commitment to excellence.
"Change" is the New Normal - Building a Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Progra...SAP Ariba
The saying goes, “The only constant is change.” This is all the more true when it comes to sustaining a strategic sourcing program. With rising commodity costs, globalization, and regulatory pressures, procurement teams struggle to sustain savings alongside a plethora of tactical responsibilities.
Join this session where industry leaders will share how they navigate and manage their strategic sourcing programs in today’s ever-changing environments.
Engineering Construction C-level ExecutiveArnon Garonzik
Arnon Garonzik is an experienced executive with over 30 years of experience in engineering, construction, environmental services, and international business. He has held roles such as President, CEO, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer for various companies. He has experience turning around struggling businesses and growing companies through strategic planning, business development, and mergers and acquisitions.
This document summarizes Lloyd Parry International's approach to designing adaptive organizations. It discusses their Adaptive-Business-Framework which includes four phases: design, engage, adopt, and adapt. The framework aims to make organizations more engaging of customers, better at learning and sharing intelligence, strong at leadership, and able to continuously improve. It provides examples of how the framework has been applied to case studies of organizations and measurement approaches. The document is authored and copyrighted by Lloyd Parry.
Maximise the value of your business dec 2012Craig West
This document discusses business succession planning and maximizing the value of a business. It notes that over half of business exits are due to unplanned events like death or disability. The document outlines a 5-stage process for business succession: 1) identify value, 2) protect value, 3) maximize value, 4) extract value, and 5) manage value. It provides examples and strategies at each stage, including assessing financials, benchmarking, protecting assets, and planning an exit. The goal is to combine business, financial, and personal goals to design an exit that satisfies all stakeholders.
The corporate team at Finlaysons law firm provides legal services to private and public companies. They advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, restructures, capital raisings, and compliance with corporations law and stock exchange rules. The team has experience working on major transactions in various industries. They aim to develop long-term relationships with clients and understand their businesses.
The document discusses creating an adaptive and learning work climate for Agile and Lean organizations. It emphasizes that performance is determined by the work climate, which is influenced by choice, freedom, power, and leadership from all levels. An engaging, learning, leading, and improving climate allows employees influence and autonomy, fosters collaboration, and supports continuous improvement through experimentation.
Construction Company Profile To Attract Clients Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
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The document discusses the future of consulting in 2010. It outlines three common concerns of growth, margins, and risk. It then analyzes the root causes, such as ideas not correlated to business value and slow reaction to emerging needs. Five issues for profitable growth are discussed like correlating advice to performance and appropriate firm size. The world in 2010 is predicted to have information everywhere but its validity uncertain. A manifesto for agile advisors prioritizes individuals, collaboration and responding to change. Three ideas for the next five years are solving continuous change management, working with new economic models, and building sustainability strategies.
Phillips 66 is an energy manufacturing and logistics company headquartered in Houston. It has global operations and manufactures energy products used daily. In 2012 it had earnings of $4.1 billion and $50 billion in assets, employing approximately 13,500 people. Phillips 66 refines crude oil and transports and markets refined products and natural gas. It also manufactures petrochemicals and lubricants.
Bob Tormey - San Fran - GLGiGetting the Last Million Out of Your Portfolio Co...Bob Tormey, CPA, CTP, CIRA
This document summarizes opportunities for a private equity firm to maximize value from its portfolio companies' budgets. It discusses several case examples where an expert advisor found savings that other consultants had missed. These include implementing expense reduction programs, consolidating IT systems, eliminating unprofitable customers, recovering overpaid estimated taxes, and optimizing working capital. The advisor was able to identify millions of dollars in cost savings and cash flow improvements that increased the enterprise value of the portfolio companies.
Construction Company Profile To Attract Clients PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
This deck covers the company profile of the construction company which provides the professional summary of the business and activities performed by them. It can be used in several ways such as informing people and stakeholders about the companys existence and its purpose, raising capital, and generating valuable investors. We have covered the company overview in this template which showcases the brief details of the construction firm along with about our company, mission, vision and values, milestones, management team, and valuable customers. The important documents which must be available with such types of organizations are covered here such as engineering license, health and safety policy, environmental management policy, etc. The template has also covered the details of the construction company work which focuses on equipment and machinery, details of work already executed, projects under execution, and picture gallery of all the construction work. The challenges and solutions faced by the construction company during the project have also been discussed along with the competitive landscape of the construction industry. Services offered by the company have been discussed here such as pre-construction, construction and infrastructure, and post construction. The cost analysis slide has been covered in this template. Different types of project timeline have been focused here such as weekly work schedule, construction project Gantt chart, budget schedule, and contractor documentation tracker. We have also focused on the points that set our company apart as well as client testimonials. https://bit.ly/2WEUpmk
1. A great product strategy requires deep understanding of inputs like customers, markets, competitors, and internal capabilities. It is important to spend time understanding problems from the customer and industry perspective.
2. To identify problems worth solving, analyze the economics of customer problems, like revenue pools, industry fragmentation, and opportunities to create a defensible market position.
3. A helpful framework for strategy is dividing efforts into three horizons - horizon 1 focuses on current business, horizon 2 on future businesses, and horizon 3 imagines the future. This framework helps allocate resources appropriately.
Landsmith is the largest provider of single family rental homes to institutional and retail investors. They invest in residential homes by buying below market, making value-added improvements, and selling to institutions, smaller investors, and home buyers. Landsmith offers various products like SFR funds and has processes to perform due diligence, acquire properties, rehabilitate homes, and consider multiple exit strategies. They have experience acquiring over 2,000 homes since 2010 and sell to over 25 institutional buyers and thousands of individual investors.
The document introduces HARD HAT Business Advice, a business consulting firm that helps clients build stable and profitable businesses through their unique Business Builder solution. This solution connects financial, sales, and operational aspects to improve profitability within 90 days. It then describes the 12 steps of the Business Builder program and provides examples of its successful use with businesses of different sizes.
The document discusses Hillenbrand's acquisition of ABEL. ABEL designs and manufactures positive displacement pumps and has annual revenue of €30 million and EBITDA of €8 million. Hillenbrand will acquire ABEL for €95 million in cash. The acquisition advances Hillenbrand's strategy and ABEL is expected to be accretive to Hillenbrand's earnings in 2016, net of transition costs. ABEL provides entry into the flow control market and has attractive end markets and geographic presence for growth.
Low Carbon Scotland Mind Fit Renewables 25th February 2015 FinalKeith Willett
The document discusses using a "Hearts and Minds Solution" to engage employees and achieve management buy-in for sustainability initiatives like increasing renewable energy use. It notes that successful organizations are those that engage all employees and demonstrate positive attitudes. The solution aims to prevent "Behavioral Waste" by aligning systems and behaviors to achieve organizational goals like helping Low Carbon Scotland exceed its targets through small, incremental changes that have a big impact.
The document describes Lloyd Parry, a lean service transformation consultancy. It provides:
- Lean service principles and organizational diagnostics to support clients in designing and managing organizations.
- Transformation programs delivered to large global organizations across sectors like telecom, IT, finance, logistics.
- An approach called Climetrics that identifies how management activities, measurements, structures and capabilities can create a lean service climate leading to high performance.
- Companies adopting this approach have won awards for best service strategy and demonstrating cultural change centered around customer needs.
Palestra "Atenção gerencial - da gestão de dilemas à excelência de resultados" realizada por Rami Goldratt (CEO do Grupo Goldratt, organização mundial, líder em implementação da Teoria das Restrições -TOC) na ExpoGestão 2013 - Joinville SC
Título original em Ingles: Management Attention Achieving results dealing with complexity, uncertainty and conflicts.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 5 of Principles of Business, 8th Edition relating to business organization. It covers forms of business ownership like sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; their advantages/disadvantages and legal documents. Other topics include business activities, types of businesses, forms of ownership statistics in the US, and organizational structures like mission statements, goals, policies and organization charts. Specialized ownership forms like franchises are also discussed.
This document summarizes key topics from Chapter 5 on business organization, including the three main forms of business ownership (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation), their defining legal documents and advantages/disadvantages. It also discusses business activities, types of businesses, forms of ownership in the US economy, and defines important terms like mission statements, goals, policies and procedures. Organizational charts are presented as a way to illustrate management structure.
Beam Suntory Inc. proposal from Deloitte & Touche LLP dated July 8, 2016. The proposal outlines Deloitte's experienced audit team for Beam Suntory, their industry expertise in food and beverage, and their risk-based audit approach. It also provides estimated fees of $2,550,000 for 15,000 hours of audit work annually.
Sustainability Business Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
If your company needs to submit a Sustainability Business Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further. Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. https://bit.ly/2MhYACE
Moonpig introduced business agility to be better, faster and happier. They changed from functional teams organized by role to cross-functional teams organized around goals. Key aspects of the change included aligning people into tribes and squads focused on goals, introducing lean and agile practices, prioritizing experimentation to gather customer insights, and building a culture of learning and empowerment. This helped improve outcomes, speed of delivery, and employee engagement at Moonpig.
Ross Chapman Etch Design Sprints Agile Outside IT presentation 9 January 2019agileoutsideIT
The document describes the Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ), a 1-hour exercise based on design sprints that helps teams solve problems and make decisions quickly. The LDJ follows a process where teams identify challenges, generate solutions, vote on solutions, and prioritize the top solutions over an impact/effort scale to determine the best ones to implement. The goal is for teams to recognize problems, create solutions, and have a plan of action to work on the highest impact items in just one hour using the LDJ methodology.
Maximise the value of your business dec 2012Craig West
This document discusses business succession planning and maximizing the value of a business. It notes that over half of business exits are due to unplanned events like death or disability. The document outlines a 5-stage process for business succession: 1) identify value, 2) protect value, 3) maximize value, 4) extract value, and 5) manage value. It provides examples and strategies at each stage, including assessing financials, benchmarking, protecting assets, and planning an exit. The goal is to combine business, financial, and personal goals to design an exit that satisfies all stakeholders.
The corporate team at Finlaysons law firm provides legal services to private and public companies. They advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, restructures, capital raisings, and compliance with corporations law and stock exchange rules. The team has experience working on major transactions in various industries. They aim to develop long-term relationships with clients and understand their businesses.
The document discusses creating an adaptive and learning work climate for Agile and Lean organizations. It emphasizes that performance is determined by the work climate, which is influenced by choice, freedom, power, and leadership from all levels. An engaging, learning, leading, and improving climate allows employees influence and autonomy, fosters collaboration, and supports continuous improvement through experimentation.
Construction Company Profile To Attract Clients Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
"You can download this product from SlideTeam.net"
This complete deck can be used to present to your team. It has PPT slides on various topics highlighting all the core areas of your business needs. This complete deck focuses on Construction Company Profile To Attract Clients Powerpoint Presentation Slides and has professionally designed templates with suitable visuals and appropriate content. This deck consists of total of fifty seven slides. All the slides are completely customizable for your convenience. You can change the colour, text and font size of these templates. You can add or delete the content if needed. Get access to this professionally designed complete presentation by clicking the download button below. https://bit.ly/3Dzx3Dy
The document discusses the future of consulting in 2010. It outlines three common concerns of growth, margins, and risk. It then analyzes the root causes, such as ideas not correlated to business value and slow reaction to emerging needs. Five issues for profitable growth are discussed like correlating advice to performance and appropriate firm size. The world in 2010 is predicted to have information everywhere but its validity uncertain. A manifesto for agile advisors prioritizes individuals, collaboration and responding to change. Three ideas for the next five years are solving continuous change management, working with new economic models, and building sustainability strategies.
Phillips 66 is an energy manufacturing and logistics company headquartered in Houston. It has global operations and manufactures energy products used daily. In 2012 it had earnings of $4.1 billion and $50 billion in assets, employing approximately 13,500 people. Phillips 66 refines crude oil and transports and markets refined products and natural gas. It also manufactures petrochemicals and lubricants.
Bob Tormey - San Fran - GLGiGetting the Last Million Out of Your Portfolio Co...Bob Tormey, CPA, CTP, CIRA
This document summarizes opportunities for a private equity firm to maximize value from its portfolio companies' budgets. It discusses several case examples where an expert advisor found savings that other consultants had missed. These include implementing expense reduction programs, consolidating IT systems, eliminating unprofitable customers, recovering overpaid estimated taxes, and optimizing working capital. The advisor was able to identify millions of dollars in cost savings and cash flow improvements that increased the enterprise value of the portfolio companies.
Construction Company Profile To Attract Clients PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
This deck covers the company profile of the construction company which provides the professional summary of the business and activities performed by them. It can be used in several ways such as informing people and stakeholders about the companys existence and its purpose, raising capital, and generating valuable investors. We have covered the company overview in this template which showcases the brief details of the construction firm along with about our company, mission, vision and values, milestones, management team, and valuable customers. The important documents which must be available with such types of organizations are covered here such as engineering license, health and safety policy, environmental management policy, etc. The template has also covered the details of the construction company work which focuses on equipment and machinery, details of work already executed, projects under execution, and picture gallery of all the construction work. The challenges and solutions faced by the construction company during the project have also been discussed along with the competitive landscape of the construction industry. Services offered by the company have been discussed here such as pre-construction, construction and infrastructure, and post construction. The cost analysis slide has been covered in this template. Different types of project timeline have been focused here such as weekly work schedule, construction project Gantt chart, budget schedule, and contractor documentation tracker. We have also focused on the points that set our company apart as well as client testimonials. https://bit.ly/2WEUpmk
1. A great product strategy requires deep understanding of inputs like customers, markets, competitors, and internal capabilities. It is important to spend time understanding problems from the customer and industry perspective.
2. To identify problems worth solving, analyze the economics of customer problems, like revenue pools, industry fragmentation, and opportunities to create a defensible market position.
3. A helpful framework for strategy is dividing efforts into three horizons - horizon 1 focuses on current business, horizon 2 on future businesses, and horizon 3 imagines the future. This framework helps allocate resources appropriately.
Landsmith is the largest provider of single family rental homes to institutional and retail investors. They invest in residential homes by buying below market, making value-added improvements, and selling to institutions, smaller investors, and home buyers. Landsmith offers various products like SFR funds and has processes to perform due diligence, acquire properties, rehabilitate homes, and consider multiple exit strategies. They have experience acquiring over 2,000 homes since 2010 and sell to over 25 institutional buyers and thousands of individual investors.
The document introduces HARD HAT Business Advice, a business consulting firm that helps clients build stable and profitable businesses through their unique Business Builder solution. This solution connects financial, sales, and operational aspects to improve profitability within 90 days. It then describes the 12 steps of the Business Builder program and provides examples of its successful use with businesses of different sizes.
The document discusses Hillenbrand's acquisition of ABEL. ABEL designs and manufactures positive displacement pumps and has annual revenue of €30 million and EBITDA of €8 million. Hillenbrand will acquire ABEL for €95 million in cash. The acquisition advances Hillenbrand's strategy and ABEL is expected to be accretive to Hillenbrand's earnings in 2016, net of transition costs. ABEL provides entry into the flow control market and has attractive end markets and geographic presence for growth.
Low Carbon Scotland Mind Fit Renewables 25th February 2015 FinalKeith Willett
The document discusses using a "Hearts and Minds Solution" to engage employees and achieve management buy-in for sustainability initiatives like increasing renewable energy use. It notes that successful organizations are those that engage all employees and demonstrate positive attitudes. The solution aims to prevent "Behavioral Waste" by aligning systems and behaviors to achieve organizational goals like helping Low Carbon Scotland exceed its targets through small, incremental changes that have a big impact.
The document describes Lloyd Parry, a lean service transformation consultancy. It provides:
- Lean service principles and organizational diagnostics to support clients in designing and managing organizations.
- Transformation programs delivered to large global organizations across sectors like telecom, IT, finance, logistics.
- An approach called Climetrics that identifies how management activities, measurements, structures and capabilities can create a lean service climate leading to high performance.
- Companies adopting this approach have won awards for best service strategy and demonstrating cultural change centered around customer needs.
Palestra "Atenção gerencial - da gestão de dilemas à excelência de resultados" realizada por Rami Goldratt (CEO do Grupo Goldratt, organização mundial, líder em implementação da Teoria das Restrições -TOC) na ExpoGestão 2013 - Joinville SC
Título original em Ingles: Management Attention Achieving results dealing with complexity, uncertainty and conflicts.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 5 of Principles of Business, 8th Edition relating to business organization. It covers forms of business ownership like sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; their advantages/disadvantages and legal documents. Other topics include business activities, types of businesses, forms of ownership statistics in the US, and organizational structures like mission statements, goals, policies and organization charts. Specialized ownership forms like franchises are also discussed.
This document summarizes key topics from Chapter 5 on business organization, including the three main forms of business ownership (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation), their defining legal documents and advantages/disadvantages. It also discusses business activities, types of businesses, forms of ownership in the US economy, and defines important terms like mission statements, goals, policies and procedures. Organizational charts are presented as a way to illustrate management structure.
Beam Suntory Inc. proposal from Deloitte & Touche LLP dated July 8, 2016. The proposal outlines Deloitte's experienced audit team for Beam Suntory, their industry expertise in food and beverage, and their risk-based audit approach. It also provides estimated fees of $2,550,000 for 15,000 hours of audit work annually.
Sustainability Business Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
If your company needs to submit a Sustainability Business Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further. Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. https://bit.ly/2MhYACE
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Moonpig introduced business agility to be better, faster and happier. They changed from functional teams organized by role to cross-functional teams organized around goals. Key aspects of the change included aligning people into tribes and squads focused on goals, introducing lean and agile practices, prioritizing experimentation to gather customer insights, and building a culture of learning and empowerment. This helped improve outcomes, speed of delivery, and employee engagement at Moonpig.
Ross Chapman Etch Design Sprints Agile Outside IT presentation 9 January 2019agileoutsideIT
The document describes the Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ), a 1-hour exercise based on design sprints that helps teams solve problems and make decisions quickly. The LDJ follows a process where teams identify challenges, generate solutions, vote on solutions, and prioritize the top solutions over an impact/effort scale to determine the best ones to implement. The goal is for teams to recognize problems, create solutions, and have a plan of action to work on the highest impact items in just one hour using the LDJ methodology.
The document discusses Nationwide Building Society's successful adoption of agile practices within their internal audit function. It summarizes:
1) Nationwide's internal audit previously used a traditional hierarchical structure but wanted to improve relevance, responsiveness, and team engagement.
2) They implemented Scrum, adapting it to their context where audits are the "unit of work" and most work is complex with unknowns.
3) Key to their success was understanding their unique context and adapting the framework accordingly rather than following practices blindly. Breaking rules and making their own helped it stick.
The document discusses continuous improvement and how making small incremental changes over time can lead to significant improvements. It promotes the idea of continuous improvement as a mindset and provides some practical tips for implementing continuous improvement, including using a continuous improvement board to track problems, desired future states, tasks, and progress. The document also emphasizes that continuous improvement can be applied to any context to help teams and individuals get better through small changes done consistently over time.
Agile & Lean in Construction: a brilliantly compelling & inspiring case studyagileoutsideIT
The document discusses implementing agile and lean principles in construction projects at Willmott Dixon. It outlines the challenges in the construction industry around low productivity and a lack of collaboration. Willmott Dixon aims to improve project performance, planning competence, and collaborative working using agile principles in medium and short term planning. The Suiko method is introduced as a behavior-based approach used on pilot projects like Romford Leisure Centre to establish lean foundations, control processes, and drive continuous improvement through multi-functional teamwork. The goal is to develop the "Willmott Way" approach company-wide within 12-18 months.
Being Agile : Beyond IT with Berlinda WaldockagileoutsideIT
The document is from Belinda Waldock about being agile in business dated April 10, 2017. It contains information on connecting, promoting, developing and growing. There are bullet point lists on various topics but no continuous text of paragraphs. Graphics and statistics are included on visual versus hidden processes and on sanity check shipping dates.
Within six months of working with Tao, the client saw a 37,500% increase in Net Promoter Score, a £30 million ROI, and a 58 point increase in key metrics. Tao used an Agile approach of sprints to intensely focus on developing and embedding crucial behaviors. Network analysis identified informal influencers who provided insights that shaped the program. Behavioral coaching and sprint training was delivered to leaders over 12 weeks to improve culture, engagement, and performance at the client's largest contact center.
Agile: established. Before and beyond IT (Speaker: Andrew Jones) agileoutsideIT
Using agile outside IT – our inaugural session!
September 27 2016
People have been collaborating for many thousands of years, delivering against vision, learning by mistakes, constantly improving and responding to change. Andrew will show, through some well-known examples from history, how agile was around well before IT was even thought of and then how agile has been adopted beyond IT, finding its place back with people who want to work together to make a difference. This will be supported by mini case studies of where agile principles and practices have been adopted in non-IT functions of modern businesses to help them respond to change.
Ganpati Kumar Choudhary Indian Ethos PPT.pptx, The Dilemma of Green Energy Corporation
Green Energy Corporation, a leading renewable energy company, faces a dilemma: balancing profitability and sustainability. Pressure to scale rapidly has led to ethical concerns, as the company's commitment to sustainable practices is tested by the need to satisfy shareholders and maintain a competitive edge.
12 steps to transform your organization into the agile org you deservePierre E. NEIS
During an organizational transformation, the shift is from the previous state to an improved one. In the realm of agility, I emphasize the significance of identifying polarities. This approach helps establish a clear understanding of your objectives. I have outlined 12 incremental actions to delineate your organizational strategy.
Originally presented at XP2024 Bolzano
While agile has entered the post-mainstream age, possibly losing its mojo along the way, the rise of remote working is dealing a more severe blow than its industrialization.
In this talk we'll have a look to the cumulative effect of the constraints of a remote working environment and of the common countermeasures.
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words an...Ram V Chary
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words and actions, making leaders reliable and credible. It also ensures ethical decision-making, which fosters a positive organizational culture and promotes long-term success. #RamVChary
Colby Hobson: Residential Construction Leader Building a Solid Reputation Thr...dsnow9802
Colby Hobson stands out as a dynamic leader in the residential construction industry. With a solid reputation built on his exceptional communication and presentation skills, Colby has proven himself to be an excellent team player, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.
Public Speaking Tips to Help You Be A Strong Leader.pdfPinta Partners
In the realm of effective leadership, a multitude of skills come into play, but one stands out as both crucial and challenging: public speaking.
Public speaking transcends mere eloquence; it serves as the medium through which leaders articulate their vision, inspire action, and foster engagement. For leaders, refining public speaking skills is essential, elevating their ability to influence, persuade, and lead with resolute conviction. Here are some key tips to consider: https://joellandau.com/the-public-speaking-tips-to-help-you-be-a-stronger-leader/
Comparing Stability and Sustainability in Agile SystemsRob Healy
Copy of the presentation given at XP2024 based on a research paper.
In this paper we explain wat overwork is and the physical and mental health risks associated with it.
We then explore how overwork relates to system stability and inventory.
Finally there is a call to action for Team Leads / Scrum Masters / Managers to measure and monitor excess work for individual teams.
Impact of Effective Performance Appraisal Systems on Employee Motivation and ...Dr. Nazrul Islam
Healthy economic development requires properly managing the banking industry of any
country. Along with state-owned banks, private banks play a critical role in the country's economy.
Managers in all types of banks now confront the same challenge: how to get the utmost output from
their employees. Therefore, Performance appraisal appears to be inevitable since it set the
standard for comparing actual performance to established objectives and recommending practical
solutions that help the organization achieve sustainable growth. Therefore, the purpose of this
research is to determine the effect of performance appraisal on employee motivation and retention.
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