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Change Management Services: Who Can Benefit and Why

Business Consulting Agency

Change management services through consulting are designed to support organizations of all sizes and industries undergoing significant transformations, transitions, or initiatives. While the benefits of change management apply broadly, certain types of companies can particularly benefit from leveraging these services.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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Why Legacy Systems Can Derail Your Digital Transformation Project

PM Alliance

Existing solutions, particularly those that have been around for decades and have woven themselves into processes all over the enterprise, can be surprisingly sticky. One of the almost ubiquitous risks of any digital transformation initiative revolves around the legacy technology the project will either augment or replace.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

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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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). These many voices create predictable tension that is often mistaken as something harmful.