Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. Seeing these results, management at CTRIP offered all their employees the option to WFH, which boosted the firm’s productivity by 22%.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Since 2012, M&A activity has increased dramatically in both number of deals and size of transaction, with the yearly value of global M&A deals tracking above $4.5 Cost-cutting and job losses typically occur in M&A as companies aggressively pursue efficiencies and eliminate redundancies. John Gichigi/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. Soldiers like efficiency and order. So why does the UK still lag behind its peers, despite investing more than them?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2014

In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” The Science Team not only prepares data and builds models, but also emphasizes the identification of business opportunities and education, change management and implementation—the complete value chain from framing questions through to changing behaviors.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Unlike the Apollo era, when funds were no barrier in the effort to win the space race, NASA now had to accomplish its missions as efficiently as possible and be more explicit about its added value to society. Space X carried out its first resupply mission in 2012 and Orbital Sciences in 2013. It invested more in external communication.

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