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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work

Harvard Business

Using data science to predict how people in companies are changing may sound futuristic. As we wrote recently, change management remains one of the few areas largely untouched by the data-driven revolution. We can say precisely what behavior change is needed to make a new process work, and then monitor improvement in real time.

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Women Thrive as Independent Consultants

Comatch

To find out, COMATCH conducted a study analyzing 220,000 data points stemming from our everyday business activities and surveyed our consultant network. Do less work-related traveling. Yet, women more often than men wish to work remotely, aim to have more free time, and travel less for work. Be able to work remotely.

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. That helps explain why failure is so common, but there’s more to it.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. PM Images/Getty Images. hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

Seek out what’s not working: The old adage says that bad news doesn’t travel up. The meeting also included a read-out of the employee engagement survey scores that, in the midst of the turbulence of an integration, were among the highest in the company’s history. Show that the status quo is not enough anymore.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In a survey conducted last month, 75% of veterans reported that VA effectively delivers care and services, up from 65% just a year ago.

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