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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

Most importantly, cutting across all these initiatives, we created the network of senior and mid-level managers to connect and inspire people to get engaged in innovation. A manager might be struggling with an overly complex process or a new digital competitor. In 2018, we counted more than 50,000 fast sessions across the company.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. There were internal doubts as well. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

This momentum is continuing into 2018 with the bidding war for UK media company Sky ($24–$30 billion) and Microsoft’s $7.5 However, M&A-driven reorgs do differ in important ways, and those differences make them more difficult to manage due to the nature of merging at least two completely separate companies.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations leading to reduced costs and increased revenue. How organizational love can improve leadership.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. That’s not true of public companies, where quarterly metrics are scrutinized by analysts, and activist investors can buy up large stakes and push for change. Private vs. Public.