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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Stakeholders are invited to prioritize the ideas submitted using pre-identified criteria such as culture alignment, cost, quality, and timeliness. However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Refinement. References: Amrollahi, A., &

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The company grew through brilliant marketing, brand acquisitions, innovation and a decentralized geographic set of business units that helped create an entrepreneurial culture out in the markets. a) Agility. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

The three towers, which dominate the landscape of the Gangnam district, were built to consolidate many of the activities of the firm; their imposing presence is emblematic of the company’s hierarchal culture. Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

I’m told that at one point the management-through-presentation culture of the company was so extensive that they were actually investigated by 3M for potentially re-selling the huge volumes of acetates used in those days to make slides for overhead projectors! The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. This demanded shifts in cultural values, relational approaches, and technology strategy. Adapting to change. NASA had to learn how to collaborate.