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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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An Asset Manager’s Guide to Data and Digital Disruption

BCG

Article Monday, July 11, 2016. For some managers, this is a tremendous opportunity: more complex strategies can be supported. It requires a step change increase in capabilities related to process flows, work structure, roles, metrics, and talent. Doing so isn’t just a matter of technology.

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Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do

Harvard Business

In 2016 we asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries and 25 industries where they focus their attention throughout strategic execution. This research confirms that when it comes to strategy execution, there is a knowing-doing gap. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. This would be a mistake. Insight Center.

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Organizations become known by their culture.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution. Sometimes, innovation centers at the front line of human-centered design do not have robust metrics for recognizing incremental but critical successes.