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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Scenario exploration of external perspectives and forces with the potential to dramatically change your business. Performance Accelerator 1: Scenario Planning.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Developing your cultural agility requires dedicated effort and investment to break from the typical classroom presentation, book, or eLearning module. Executive Coaching Example: A leader from one part of the world was assigned to take on operations in another in one organization. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

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How Hurricane Harvey Spurred a Houston Hospital to Rethink Emergency Care

Harvard Business

Although it remained open for operations during Hurricane Harvey in late August 2017, the storm caused significant moisture damage to its infrastructure, necessitating the closure of more than half of its 200 inpatient beds for several months after the storm.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Companies are both operators and investors. Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

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Business Processes Are Learning to Hack Themselves

Harvard Business

In our survey (not yet publicly published) of almost 170 industrial organizations, 96% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that machine learning is automating process-change management inside their organization. Automated process change offers one way to help remove some factors that lead to time and cost overruns.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. To test the idea, hospital managers developed a special patient-safety card game that encouraged coworkers to work together more easily and reinforced their knowledge of core safety and patient care principles.