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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Rewarded vs. Unrewarded Complexity in Organizations

Kates Kesler

Complex organizations are a result of complex business strategies. Rewarded complexity drives a multifaceted growth strategy through a network of value-adding contact points across diverse teams, functions, and business units around the world. But not all complexity is equal. This is a value-creating form of tension.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

A strategy execution and implementation firm based in Sweden, today the firm counts 59 of the U.S. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. After Senior Consultant, the next level is Manager. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

But as some companies are realizing, placing the burden of recycling entirely on the consumer is not an effective strategy—especially when tossing something away seems like the easiest and most convenient option. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. An over-reliance on inflexible organizational models when establishing centralized brand, product, or category management teams can be downright destructive, exacerbating global/local conflicts. The team manages a shared agenda.

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An Emotional Connection Matters More than Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business

Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes.

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