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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 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. This shift gives CPGs an opportunity to gain rich insight into the tastes and habits that drive their sales. Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

.” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive. Don’t make your AI too lite.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion. Some performance indicators, including service margins, began to improve.

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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. Nobody ever says, “Gee, I just consumed some really enlightening content and it really change the way I think about things.” In fact, as a CEO I was constantly in people’s hair.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. They can help them with change management as smart machines provide new insights at increasing speeds.