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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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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

“Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” This approach helped Connected Home’s Hive “smart thermostat” device become a market leader in just a few years. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion. Certainly it’s true that in times of radical technological change there’s a lot of figuring out to do.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. ZB by 2020.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

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

Harvard Business

But it’s really reporting that sets a publication apart, even in seemingly trivial areas like fashion and entertainment. Unfortunately, most publishers rose up in their organizations through ad sales and tend to see their business from a marketer’s perspective. That’s how publishers lost their way.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.