LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assessing Executive Capabilities: A Comprehensive Guide We know from our organizational alignment research that executives play and outsized role in driving organizational success. Do you have a research-backed, strategically-aligned, and agreed-upon list of core leadership competencies required for your executives to excel?

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. Market Research and Analysis Consultants conduct comprehensive market research to provide insights into industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitor strategies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2024

And while top talent certainly helps, achieving success at work is rarely an individual endeavor — it’s a collective journey fueled by the power of teams. A Research-Backed 5-Step Team Effectiveness Framework What propels some teams towards peak performance and sustainable success? Many factors contribute to winning teams.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 9, 2024

Consultants conduct market research, competitor analysis, and feasibility studies to assess market opportunities, target audience needs, and competitive landscapes. Strategic Business Planning Professional consulting services assist entrepreneurs and investors in developing strategic business plans that lay the foundation for startup success.

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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. This takes time.

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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. Do You Need to Implement Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

Yet, the traditional approach to strategy typically assumes modest shifts in markets, competitors, partners, strategies, cultures, and talent. Organizational cultures must be agile and ready to recalibrate strategies based on evolving circumstances. The significance of culture in strategy execution cannot be overestimated.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

The research has been clear; diverse organizations and teams make better decisions and outperform those that are less diverse. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Talent problems are result of organization design decisions related to organization strategy and broader organization design issues.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

The research has been clear; diverse organizations and teams make better decisions and outperform those that are less diverse. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Talent problems are result of organization design decisions related to organization strategy and broader organization design issues.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Retaining existing employees is far more cost-efficient than hiring and training new talent. Enhanced Organizational Agility If there’s one thing that the pandemic showed us, it’s that adapting to changing market dynamics is essential. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Talent Marketplaces Talent marketplaces connect organization with on-demand talent like independent consultants or experts with skills outside of their core business model. HBR researchers have found that while many firms offer more than one type of service, top performers tend to focus on a specific type.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy? To succeed, we believe that it’s time to rethink and upgrade your strategy to meet the current and future challenges. 3 Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right leaders in the right roles at the right time accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing organizations. Yet recent research at Deloitte found that only 14% of leaders believe that leadership succession planning is done well at their organizations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. A common theme in the research on building or restoring trust in a relationship is to be transparent in your discussions. It is easy for a leader to kill motivation and respect within a team.

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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. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Many of us are working from home now, either part-time or full-time.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Sadly, most research points to less than 25 percent of organizational restructurings producing the desired results. To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Using the area of digitization as an example, organizations can use Flash Organizations to take on complex and data-based projects in a more resilient and agile way. . Now, people can work with professionals based on talent alone with fewer constraints due to region, time zone, etc. Additionally, the war for talent is increasing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change-agile leaders demonstrate five integrated behaviors that, together, create a competitive advantage for the organization.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility. Just like Aesop’s fable about the good and the golden egg, we have seen leaders increase current earnings at the expense of long-term competitive position, lose top talent at the expense of immediate projects, and take shortcuts that created long-term product problems.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

But often, people leaders don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be and struggle building meaningful connections with their people to drive consistent results. Research has shown that most leaders use one leadership style — so they don’t know how to unleash the potential of the individuals on their team.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2019

Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. Some will need research and time to become accustomed to the code and test base. An agile approach to product planning and delivery takes talented people time to do well. That works until you have more products than teams.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture — how work truly gets done — accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Do you have an adaptable enough corporate culture to thrive during times of change?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2019

According to CEB research, a whopping 60% of new managers under perform during their first two years, and not surprisingly, 85% of new managers still receive no formal training prior to switching into the role of manager. Do you know the role and responsibility of a new manager at your company? The Challenge for New Managers Today.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Agile organizations are connected organizations.

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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. But whatever the extent of an organization’s digital ambition, our research shows most corporate strategists tend to play it safe, favoring incremental investments.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

New and emerging tools such as social media listening, user research, and journey mapping can be powerful enablers to guide CPGs digital transformation. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations. .” Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, recent research by McKinsey found that organizations that mastered two or more diversified strategic growth initiatives grew faster than their peers. The interesting part of the McKinsey research is that the highest growth companies employ multiple growth strategies simultaneously. Strategic Growth Obstacles. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

In a literature review of 81 executive coaching studies, researchers [link] found that executive coaching positively impacts the leader and the organization. Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. What to look for in coaching qualifications?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work. Research led by our Agile Talent Collaborative points out that project leads who manage freelancers don’t give enough specific feedback.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 11, 2018

Research by Cloverpop states that decisions are 87% more successful when made by teams. The hindrance of an individual making a decision is simply that it is one perspective – one source of research and one personality making a decision that could impact a market that has diverse needs and opinions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Agile innovation teams are small.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers. The risk had been managed well.

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