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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. 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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A Strategist's Guide to the Digital Grocery

Strategy+Business

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. But that does not fully meet the challenge.

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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. Leveraging multiple perspectives enhances strategic thinking , creativity, engagement, and strategy quality. Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.),

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Eliminating layers of management. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management. PM Images/Getty Images. As the U.S.

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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. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S. Insight Center.

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