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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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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. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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3 Talent Management Traps to Avoid

LSA Global

Just think of an old-fashioned school classroom where the “good” student (the one that behaved and followed the rules) was smiled upon whereas the student who asked questions and challenged assumptions was met with disapproval. If your culture is aligned with your strategy, this is a good thing. The Bottom Line.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Interestingly, KPMG is the only one of the Big 4 that has not yet acquired a boutique strategy firm. Thankfully, everything stayed in a nice orderly fashion, the way accountants like it, after the audit portrayed Peat Marwick in a favorable light. Business Process Management. Change Management. Other Operations.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

“A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach.

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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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What the Best Change Leaders Know, and Why They’re So Hard to Copy

Harvard Business

Of all the lessons I’ve learned about innovation and change, one stands above the rest: There is no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. The thrill of breakthrough creativity doesn’t just belong to upstart companies with the most radical technologies.

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