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

Markovitz Consulting

In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps. Trying to improve productivity in a process by 25% on first try is (generally) a recipe for failure and frustration—notwithstanding Byrne’s success with that approach.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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Tronc vs. the Right Way for Publishers to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business

There are four things I think publishers need to know to compete in the digital age: The product drives the business. In a sense, publishing is like any other business: Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. The quality of a publishing product comes down to user experience and reporting. You can’t.

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