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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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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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5 Tips to Better Engage People for Successful Change

LSA Global

Solicit the input of front-line workers so you can consider carefully the effect of each step and prioritize and sequence the work in a coordinated fashion. Establish some principles that will guide you all going forward. Provide Forums to Air Concerns.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.”

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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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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Several key lessons emerge when heavy commitments to digital capability development meet basic financial performance problems. P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion. And now it’s happening with digital transformation.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business

The core idea was that managers and staff would systematically work together to change their behaviors and work processes, rather than working in a limited and idiosyncratic fashion. The Six Stages. The goal of this stage was to help care providers effectively enact the new protocol.