LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most business leaders talk a good game about wanting to create a high performance culture , but few fully understand how to create the environment to get the most out of their people in a way that accelerates their strategy. They don’t know why or how they should create a competitive advantage through culture.

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Management Consulted

JULY 5, 2015

One of the best things about strategy consulting is that you get to work across a broad spectrum of industries , giving you exposure to a lot of the wonderful variety that exists around us in the business world. The same is true in management consulting. As Aristotle said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Culture’s Impact on a Company’s Success A healthy, high performing, and aligned corporate culture is an emotional energizer and makes talent and business strategy execution easier; an unhealthy and misaligned culture is a drag on performance. Southwest Airlines) and some strong cultures hurt performance (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The public corporation is typically bedeviled by the gap between managers’ and shareholders’ interests. In private equity, managers and shareholders are closely connected. The great strength of the classic private equity model is the clear-sighted medium-term focus on strategy. These attempts have often failed.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. New ideas and strategies while working on the projects, finding different ways of doing things more effectively; I started feeling enthralled. It was like “Oh!! Here’s my destiny!”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. million in fuel costs for the airline and reduced emissions of more than 21,500 metric tons of CO 2 over the eight-month period of the study. The implication? An estimated cost savings of $5.37

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Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

Contrast this model to the one that most companies use to source new talent. ” Organizations whose success is determined entirely by the quality of their talent—sports teams, orchestras, comedy groups—have long realized that these tools are not sufficient to their challenge. Competitions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. ” Another is, “How will a company like that ever be managed?” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. This is a problem for several reasons.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 4, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. I am a strategy consultant at. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Monday, May 4, 2009. Equity Private, Respect Through Obfuscation.

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Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line. No strategy is static. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As the senior leader, your job is to build a culture of change, one that supports the long-term strategy of your company. A change in operating practices or strategy does not constitute a desertion of all that is “holy,” but only those organizations that create a true culture of change can help their people understand the difference.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

It might be to buy talent. No strategy is static. At an airline, one group handles reservations, another is in charge of the website, another handles your miles, and yet another is responsible for customer complaints. But, like bolting on capabilities, bolt-on talent doesn’t work, either. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. “They want to see their product commercialized.”

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 30, 2012

About 20% of the time, participants in the training learn some critical skills that improve their job performance (think recurrent training for airline pilots). Crisis Management. Talent Management. Starting to see a pattern? I should add that 86% of statistics are made up. Advice for Consultants. Coaching and Mentoring.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Offline retailers can mimic e-commerce’s nuanced pricing strategies by tracking consumers through smartphone connectivity and logging which customers enter the store, what type of goods they look at, and whether they make a purchase. Machine-learning models trained on these data allow firms to predict when different machines will fail.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

But how does a company, manager or individual employee correct a competency gap about which no one is aware? Another strategy is to promote a culture of continuous improvement. This can lead to significant mistakes, dissatisfied customers and even damaged corporate reputations. A great example comes from the aviation industry.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Take emerging blockchain technology applications , which could have vast potential in financial services (currency, payment solutions, digital assets), insurance (contract and identity management), entertainment (performance rights management), and many other sectors.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. Trump Shocked the World. ” Millennials feel even stronger.

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