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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

Working from Home Your Organisation’s most Productive, Happy and Profitable Year. 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.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business

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% The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

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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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

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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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Over three quarters of the $ 350 billion global space industry revenues are driven by commercial products, services, infrastructure, and support industries.) Adapting to change. Space X carried out its first resupply mission in 2012 and Orbital Sciences in 2013. This model has changed NASA’s technology strategy.