Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. He summarized the issue very simply: “We can automate mathematics, we can automate design decisions, but we cannot automate changes in human behavior.” Operations in a Connected World.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. But by definition they’re episodic (every 2 weeks?

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Turnaround Fashion Exercises Enterprise 100

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. Strategic scenario planning enables teams to identify and plan for key change hypotheses in advance without the pressure or workplace politics to deliver immediately.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Leaders need to be able to operate within and upon the business. Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture. Although culture change is challenging, making changes doesn't require considerable investments or team colocated in the same building.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

The Post-Training Conundrum “Change is not an event, it’s a process.” Ongoing Education and Reinforcement Change is not a one-time event but a continuous journey. This approach keeps the learning fresh and relevant, helping to solidify the new behaviors and practices as part of the organization’s daily operations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Executive Coaching Example: A leader from one part of the world was assigned to take on operations in another in one organization. The oldest cave paintings in the world were used to tell stories of pre-historic events. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong. Dream – collaborating on the best of what can be.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Like a computer operating system governs the computer's processing capability, our internal traits and attributes influence our external behaviors and habits. Critical thinking improves communication, decision-making, and problem-solving necessary for companies to increase revenue and reduce costs. The role of individual traits in reflection.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you want to create higher performing leaders at your company however, your leadership and management development initiatives must keenly focus on your marketplace, your strategy, your culture, and the critical few scenarios – that if leaders had high levels of proficiency – would lift performance where it matters most.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

The second aspect of the system is to provide operational alerts. They might also include noteworthy events in financial markets, such as the aforementioned Brexit vote. Finally, the Morgan Stanley system includes content on life events. Certainly, the robo aspects of this new system and process are a small part of the total.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

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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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. Seeing bottom-up initiatives through.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Likewise, many elements of culture drop into the background and become automatic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership. How People Get Ahead.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A total of 8 Managing Directors over various regions and issue areas help him lead the widely respected firm. The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Practice Areas.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Although it remained open for operations during Hurricane Harvey in late August 2017, the storm caused significant moisture damage to its infrastructure, necessitating the closure of more than half of its 200 inpatient beds for several months after the storm. The average time patients wait until they see their first provider decreased by 22%.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

In our survey (not yet publicly published) of almost 170 industrial organizations, 96% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that machine learning is automating process-change management inside their organization. Automated process change offers one way to help remove some factors that lead to time and cost overruns.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. And many indicated a preference for “journey based” development using experiences inside the organization as opposed to time-bound or event-based programs outside the company. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Look ahead and see opportunity: Most leaders view this as the role of senior executives.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Using a metaphor that he called “Mount Sustainability,” Anderson visualized his strategy by drawing a person climbing a mountain with multiple trails on its face, each representing discrete initiatives designed to tackle all the technical, operational, and cultural challenges that Interface’s movement faced.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

These events have left many in despair, wondering why the violence keeps happening and whether anyone knows what to do about it. To understand how this works, it’s important to understand how the legal rules operate. Police officers are not judged with 20-20 hindsight.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. Telling that kind of story about the future is not a one-time event. “It’s easy to underestimate the amount of communication that is needed,” he adds.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. The results were both remarkable and quick.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. In some ways, the UK in this Brexit environment resembles the uncertain operating environment of some emerging markets. And this is happening before Brexit has even taken place. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To effect actual change, they need to understand how biases — their own, and their employees’ — can shape behaviors and decisions, and prevent them from achieving what they set out to achieve. CEOs need to be especially aware of how the subtle forces of bias can operate in our subconscious and influence our choices.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching. And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them. They took nine key steps over three years, in a particular order.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Through a range of ‘shake the tree’ events, they systematically produce crop after crop of new ideas. Many people will already be familiar with the system in operation at 3M where people are allowed to devote 15% of their time and budget to any project that they wish. A similar technique can be used to good effect in managing.

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