Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. These practices are based on industry research and have proven to be effective in helping organizations achieve their goals.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. Do You Need to Implement Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assessing Executive Capabilities: A Comprehensive Guide We know from our organizational alignment research that executives play and outsized role in driving organizational success. Do you have a research-backed, strategically-aligned, and agreed-upon list of core leadership competencies required for your executives to excel?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Measurable Results and Analytics: Consultants employ advanced analytics tools to track and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, providing clients with real-time insights and performance metrics.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

The research has been clear; diverse organizations and teams make better decisions and outperform those that are less diverse. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

The research has been clear; diverse organizations and teams make better decisions and outperform those that are less diverse. Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. Capabilities.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Four Keys to Success Our organization alignment research has highlighted four keys to the successful execution of your overall strategy. Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks. This is when organizational change agility comes into play.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right leaders in the right roles at the right time accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing organizations. Yet recent research at Deloitte found that only 14% of leaders believe that leadership succession planning is done well at their organizations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We built on this research by going beyond the lens of the individual leader to investigate how the most successful teams bridge the gap. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers. The risk had been managed well.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Through this research, they identified a pain point of tracking vehicle gas mileage. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results? They realized they had to think beyond marketing as promoting an existing product.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This research confirms that when it comes to strategy execution, there is a knowing-doing gap. The most common chief executive exaltation we hear is “We must be more innovative, agile, and adaptable.” In other words, people failing to work together to make change happen.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models. They are selling performance, not hardware. This kind of innovation often is difficult for traditional companies to understand.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Jakob Owens/Unsplash.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. But, as my own research shows, in order to be meaningful, empowerment requires some boundaries, some rules that have been decided on within which empowerment can be exercised.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. Contemporary organizations may do this process in a more agile and collaborative way, but the expectation is that PMs know best about what customers need and engineering is there to serve. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Performing market assessments.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

For example, devices like home assistants and wearables provide new signals to help marketers better understand how and when people are looking for answers to questions or researching products. more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. more likely to prioritize integrating technology.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Why are translators so important? Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Exploratory research using design thinking’s ethnographic tool kit helps define the jobs that key stakeholders, patients, caregivers and partners, want or need done. At the end of the program these metrics were then correlated to observed changes in health management behavior (for example, compliance with prescriptions).

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Henman Performance Executive

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

However, research indicates that only a handful of star performers create the vast majority of valuable ideas for their organizations. Similarly, organizational stars hold high standards for themselves, so it makes sense that they will hold their places of employment to equally high metrics.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

That “expert” was a member of the research team. Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Kevin Kniffin.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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