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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. It’s time for that to change. Academics may not have helped us.

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What does a good strategy execution require

Asamby Consulting

This sounds obvious, yet is critical to understand: Just because you develop an ambitious strategy doesn't mean you change the way your organization operates. How do people collaborate, what's our culture like? Are my processes documented? And does everybody know where to find and how to use that documentation?

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3 Steps Toward Getting Your Workforce Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Right

Organizational Talent Consulting

Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. Legal - drafting legal documents and answering questions from large amounts of legal documentation. Identify the roles that will be strategic, operational, and supporting for introducing AI to your company.

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How I Led Change in the U.S. State Department Bureaucracy

Harvard Business

Winning our campaign for change required two things: reducing the risk of changing and demonstrating its value. We needed to foster a culture that tolerated risk and encouraged new ideas — concepts not readily found in government. Technology enables people and amplifies culture. Repeating failure is bad.

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The Organizational Reasons Police Departments Don’t Change

Harvard Business

In fact, there is remarkable unanimity about the solutions as documented in countless reports , panels, and investigations of police brutality, stretching back nearly 100 years to the groundbreaking Wickersham Commission. Departments blame “rogue cops,” not organizational culture. Beginning with James Q.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Business Operations. The career levels in each of these are: Associate Consultant/ Associate Engineer-> Consultant/Software Engineer-> Manager-> Associate Principal-> Principal.