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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

KPMG CONSULTING. However, not all of its resources are pointed towards consulting, as it offers three lines of services, Audit, Tax and Advisory, with the Advisory arm of its operations (where consulting lives) generating $9.09 KPMG CONSULTING KEY STATS. KPMG CONSULTING WEBSITE: www.kpmg.com. Billion last year.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

The data on change management are consistent: about 70% of change initiatives fail, despite the plethora of books, conferences, and scholarly papers dedicated to the subject. The same dynamic occurs in the workplace: small changes circumvent the amygdala, making it easier for people to adopt and accept a new way of working.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion. There’s something different about technological change that causes senior executives in large, established firms to act differently than they might otherwise.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

From day one, Hiesinger began executing a plan for repositioning the declining core of steel manufacturing by divesting less profitable product lines, focusing on higher-margin custom manufacturing, and even opening 3D printing centers to fashion components such as parts for wind turbines.