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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

For this reason, organizational transformation is uniquely suited to the analysis, prediction, and experimental research approach of the people analytics field. The transformation office approached the country finance leaders with their findings and made them partners in process improvement for the rest of the subsidiaries.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

This results in missed opportunities for new products, process improvements, or creative solutions to challenges. Poor Leadership: Many leaders at the top come from a finance background and this inhibits their focus on people. Others just do not care. They value power, money, and influence over people and purpose.

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

It’s also important to explain the changes that would have happened anyway — for example, process improvements, strategic shifts in the market, and realignment of structures — regardless of what is happening due to the integration process. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

This process-improvement methodology includes workflow redesign, error proofing, best-practice implementation, cost bundling, financial risk sharing, and outcomes measurement. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.