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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. The third and final nail on the coffin was that they didn’t read their market right – a fatal change management mistake. One could say that they were ineffective at managing change.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. This is a strong model for industries like consumer packaged goods, where one person, such as a brand manager, is responsible for product development from beginning to end.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

“Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy. Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film.

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Kevin Kniffin.