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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Reactive workforce reductions, burn-the-furniture cost-cutting, and spray-and-pray strategies out of desperation have historically led to considerable losses. Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty.

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Case Study: How Much Should a New CEO Shake Things Up?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” “He really doesn’t like the new strategy, though,” Sena said. “They’re good.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The conference will cover a range of topics – emerging technologies, diversity, soft skills development, inspiration for project managers, and more. The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership.

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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate

Harvard Business

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy.