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Agility Hacks

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati
In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the... View Details
Keywords: Agile Practices; Agile Project Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Innovation Strategy
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    Enterprise Agility at Komerční Banka

    With Suraj Srinivasan and Sarah Gulick.  Harvard Business School Case 121-020, February 2021. View Details
    • February 2021
    • Tutorial

    What are Agile Teams?

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    This video explores the elements that constitute agile teams. From its history in the "Agile Manifesto," this philosophy for organizational behavior prioritizes working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and... View Details
    Keywords: Agile Practices; Organization Behavior; Priorities; Groups and Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs
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    • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
    • Case

    Transformation at ING (A): Agile

    By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
    In December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change; Organizational Management; Workforce; Agile; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry
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    • June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
    Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details
    Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
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    • 18 Apr 2016
    • News

    Embracing Agile

    • 2020
    • Other Unpublished Work

    An Operating Model for the Next Normal: Lessons from Agile Organizations in the Crisis

    By: Christopher Handscomb, Deepak Mahadevan, Lars Schor, Marcus Sieberer, Euvin Naidoo and Suraj Srinivasan
    Companies with agile practices embedded in their operating models have managed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis better than their peers. Here’s what helped them cope. View Details
    Keywords: Operating Model; Agile Practices; Health Pandemics; Business Model; Crisis Management
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    • October 2019
    • Case

    Agility Africa

    By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
    This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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    • 15 Mar 2022
    • News

    Agile Leadership

    • June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Supplement

    Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (B)

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
    Supplements the (A) case, HBS No. 419-066, and provides information about what happened after the (A) case ends. View Details
    Keywords: Agile; Values; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
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    • Research Summary

    Learning Agility

    This research in both field and experimental settings is targeted at examining whether and how employees in the 'midst of learning' are aware of the optimal learning behavior as well as determining if this awareness does indeed increase learning agility. Further,... View Details
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    Driving Organizational Agility - Virtual

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Today's businesses must be alert to changes in the external environment, develop competitive strategies quickly—and adapt the organization to execute. In this virtual program, you'll explore organizational structures and processes that have enabled businesses to... View Details
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    Short Intensive Program (SIP): Agile at Scale: From OKR's and Agile to Execution Excellence

    What do you want to get out of your remaining time at HBS, your career and life-plan to make an impact, starting from Day 1 post-HBS? By developing tools to drive your personal success and strategy at HBS, in this interactive immersion, we will dive into how the... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2020
    • News

    Agile Strategies for Higher Ed's COVID-19 Response

    • 11 Aug 2020
    • News

    Being the Agile Boss

    • Fall 2020
    • Article

    Being the Agile Boss

    By: Linda A. Hill
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    • 16 May 2020
    • Interview

    Agile in Venture Capital

    By: Euvin Naidoo
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    • May 15 2018
    • Testimonial

    Creating an Agile Organization

    • November–December 2024
    • Article

    How to Avoid the Agility Trap

    By: Jianwen Liao and Feng Zhu
    Agility is all the rage in strategy circles these days. According to conventional wisdom, organizations should rapidly react to technological advances, new market dynamics, and shifting consumer preferences. But in practice this is nearly impossible to pull off,... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model
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    • 10 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

    book excerpt Management Is Not Leadership From Chapter 4, Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World By John Kotter Listen to how most people talk in everyday conversation, and you'll find that they often use the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter