4 Posts found for Author: Allison Bailey

Agile initiatives have proven highly effective in teaching teams how to build but not nearly as effective in teaching teams what to build.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Allison Bailey, Amanda Luther, Charles Gildehaus, David Allred, Sesh Iyer | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Innovation, Management

As functional hierarchies grow larger, they tend to become more rigid, pushing decision-making authority up the hierarchy and away from where customer interactions take place. In this system, no single team or leader owns the full end-to-end product and customer experience, making it exceedingly difficult to implement customer-centric innovations quickly and effectively. As a result, frontline employees, who have the insights and inspiration to drive … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Allison Bailey, Amanda Luther, Charles Gildehaus, David Allred, Sesh Iyer | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40 tools — some familiar but underutilized, others unfamiliar and innovative — that can help companies find and keep the people … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Allison Bailey, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman, Nithya Vaduganathan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Scale isn’t dead. But it’s critical to find the right balance between scale and fractal principles—and to do it before your competitors do.

Content: Article | Authors: Allison Bailey, Arindam Bhattacharya, Hans-Paul Bürkner, Sharad Verma | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Organizational Behavior