Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. They discovered that one country was 16% percent more efficient than the average of the rest of the countries: they got the same results in 71 fewer person-hours per month and with 40 fewer people involved each month. Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just the start of change. Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. “In bringing together a specialist direct-marketing agency with a generalist creative shop, cultural differences were bound to arise, given the contrast in customer approach and sensibilities.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

The technology, for example, enables the changes that must happen before other changes can occur or can shape the changes leading directed to achieving the expected benefits. Sponsored by Accenture. Changes can typically be catesgorized into two types: sustaining change and enabling change.

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