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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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How to Help Teams Become Comfortable with Uncertainty

LSA Global

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

For example, can you identify a low, moderate, and high-intensity descriptive word for happy, sad, and scared feelings? Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. They hired an executive coach as part of the leadership transition support and cultural agility development.

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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components

Epicflow

Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. Depending on the digital maturity level, a company may need not only to apply new technologies in day-to-day operations, but also to re-architect them entirely. . Change management. IT modernization . Digital marketing .

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

He summarized the issue very simply: “We can automate mathematics, we can automate design decisions, but we cannot automate changes in human behavior.” Operations in a Connected World. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It’s a familiar story.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business. For example, consulting firm BCG partners with customers to jointly launch new ventures. Interested in learning more?

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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