Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. Companies are also starting to adopt digital tools to streamline daily operations. Every business sector was disrupted and negatively affected by the pandemic and its aftermath.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Interestingly, they found that most research studies focused on Millennial characteristics and dynamics.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Consulting services provide a multifaceted approach to addressing complex challenges, optimizing operations, and achieving remarkable business results. Website Development A well-designed website is a cornerstone of modern business operations.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

Understanding the cultural nuances of these approaches is important during both strategy design and strategy execution. By reducing variability in operations, they cultivate an environment conducive to delivering consistent outcomes, fostering customer satisfaction, and bolstering reputation. What is the Right Balance?

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. Research has demonstrated a direct positive correlation between individual commitment to strategy and involvement in strategy development. Refinement.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Surprisingly, evidence from research suggests that proximity is not the critical determinant of communication effectiveness. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. Today's leaders face a growing number of cross-cultural differences when working with customers and employees.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. What can I do?”

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality. Image: Pexels.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires a culture that values data-driven decision-making and encourages collaboration and communication.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. At the internal launch event, Dr.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Research by McKinsey found that more than 5 initiatives or new projects increased the risk of delay and value leakage.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

No longer can leaders coast along the same old paths; you need to reimagine the journey forward and invest in the leadership capabilities required to create more innovative, agile , and resilient teams and organizations. And unless you have created the next iPhone, tactics will not win in today’s marketplace. 3 Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2023

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. Lack of True Strategic Clarity Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing execute teams.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

I’m Angelia Herrin, editor for special projects and research at HBR. But what are the challenges that IT leaders are encountering as they try to keep pace and try to transform process and operations while the business is evolving? Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. Max De Ycaza, IBM.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our research shows that a company’s ability to gain strategic clarity on its path to business model transformation is crucial to its success. Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. The specific domains of capability and performance were based on previous research , including: Team structure. Most team leaders try to build cohesion on their teams.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We built on this research by going beyond the lens of the individual leader to investigate how the most successful teams bridge the gap. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. employee engagement) and actual dialogue.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Cheating and cover-ups are natural byproducts of a top-down culture that does not accept “No” or “It can’t be done” for an answer. To help VW stand out and win in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But as we have observed in our research, consulting work, and partnerships with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and top professional services firms, the transition to new and different ways of managing talent is often filled with challenges and unexpected hurdles.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

In my research and consultancy with companies, I observe that, oftentimes, no individual or group is functionally responsible for overseeing the arrangement of their company from end to end. The best performing companies are often the best aligned.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Conclusion.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general culture is like. You can read more about those points here. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. Formal training programs can teach high-potential leaders the competencies they need to think globally and manage cross-culturally.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Companies such as IBM, Apple, Toyota, and Fidelity have demonstrated an interest and appetite for deep research and innovation by introducing AI platforms and solutions for customers, partners, and employees. Insurers should focus the case for a proof of concept on activities that require agility, automation, and continuous innovation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. That failure is not due to a lack of trying.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When Harvard Medical School famously conducted research in this area , 83% of radiologists studied did not see a gorilla superimposed on an X-ray, even when it was 48 times the size of the nodule they were looking for. To pilot this new approach, Monash Health established the new Agile Psychological Medicine Clinics (aPM Clinics).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Through this research, they identified a pain point of tracking vehicle gas mileage. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. Some Chick-fil-A franchise operators evaluate team members weekly using red, yellow, and green lights. Jakob Owens/Unsplash.

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