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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. Limit the communication, limit the emails, do not attempt your daily huddle over conference call with 25 + people.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Overcome Resistance to Change with Two Conversations

Harvard Business

Why is change so hard? Usually, figuring out the right answer is not the challenge, whether it’s a new strategy, more-efficient processes or systems, or a new structure that better meets the needs of a growing company. The biggest hurdle to effective organizational change is people. We all operate at different speeds.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Quite simply, adding technology does not automatically confer expected benefits; these benefits have to be unlocked and this can only happen through achieving organizational changes. Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. Operations in a Connected World.

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

Epicflow

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector. ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement. .”

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