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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. These seven transformative characteristics are essential in three main areas of an operating model.

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How to Better Manage the Human Side of Change

LSA Global

Invest in New Skills Invest in your employees’ (and thus your company’s) future by preparing them with the new skills they will need for the desired changes going forward. Research by Accenture found that upskilling your people as you undertake a transformation triples the value of the change initiative.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

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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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

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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7 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

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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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Some of ZS Associates’ competitors are Deloitte LLP, Accenture, and IMS Consulting group. Business Operations. In 1987, ZS was employed by a large U.S. sales force teams.