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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development.

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Free Yourself and Business from Market Myopia

Organizational Talent Consulting

Studies show that 85% of executive leadership teams spend less than one hour a month discussing strategy, and up to 95% of employees are unaware of or do not understand their organization's strategy. It is impossible to formulate a strategy, let alone a "best" or preferred strategy, without engaging in strategic thinking."

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Over time, it has become a necessity for the consulting industry to develop frameworks to address critical business problems with the help of big data. Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017. So, how does big data create value for consulting firms? Image: Pexels. References.

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4 Steps to Improving Your Strategic Thinking Passion and Proficiency

Organizational Talent Consulting

Also, followers who are excluded from strategic planning lack buy-in to organizational strategies and quickly become confused about the company's direction and disengaged. For more information on the Watson-Glaser critical thinking appraisal, visit www.talentlens.com. Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.),

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital. Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5 billion and $0.8

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. Laura Schneider for HBR. House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare).

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