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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26: 256–279. Walumbwa, F., Zhang, H.,

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Detractors, on the other hand, point to negative consequences including performance and productivity declines, decreases in customer satisfaction, and adverse effects on remaining employees, such as increased stress.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team. Reprioritize your enterprise backlog when new initiatives are added.

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The Forecasting Sweet Spot Between Micro and Macro

Harvard Business

All of these things can dramatically influence your need for products and services. In areas where Christianity is growing, sales of Western-style formal fashions are likely to grow too, since Christianity usually carries a strong acceptance and influence of Western culture and clothing.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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