LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Strategy without Action Is Just Wishful Thinking Despite the time and effort leaders put into crafting a clear business strategy , one of the most distressing statistics, is that, according to a recent IBM survey, 90% of strategies fail to meet expectations. Where did things go wrong from strategy to action?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. And they should be again.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Do you want to know how to get a seat at the table in the C-Suite and get senior leaders to buy into transformational change that you know they need that they don't quite see yet? In this episode, you'll hear: Sarah's insight into how to break into larger organizations and connect with this type of buyer as I did with Sarah.

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LSA Global

MARCH 8, 2023

Do Your Teams Know How to Succeed in a Matrixed Work Environment? How is your organization structured? If your employees work on multiple teams and report to multiple managers (directly or indirectly), you are working in a matrixed work environment. In a recent study of over 14,000 U.S.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

It demands aligning top leadership for change to guide those affected by change through the inevitable ups and downs of organizational transformation. The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Change management is not just a skill or a process. Integrated portfolio management. . Change management (CM) excellence. . Project management (PM) excellence. How should we organize project and change management practitioners? . Where do we need leadership and management? .

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Critical thinking is the ability to use cognitive skills and strategies to increase the probability of the desired outcome when problem-solving. Like a computer operating system governs the computer's processing capability, our internal traits and attributes influence our external behaviors and habits. Gardner, S. & Albee, D.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. But it is not just the nuts and bolts of a company that need to change. How B2B Companies Can Grow with Ecosystem Orchestration.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

The Ideal Workplace Culture Smart companies regularly assess their current organizational culture to identify the gaps between the current state and the culture they strive for to best execute their business and people strategies. In some cases, major changes are required to approach their desired corporate culture.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

In our twenty-five years of culture change and change management consulting we have learned that a clear business strategy must come first. Because a strategy, any strategy, must go through your culture to get executed. Let’s say you have thoughtfully crafted and communicated your growth strategy.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our change management consulting experts knew that this professional services client faced increased competition, employee burnout, pricing pressure, and marketplace disruption. We know from change management simulation data that successful leaders of change make sure their own beliefs and behaviors genuinely support the change.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

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. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It’s a familiar story.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Reactive workforce reductions, burn-the-furniture cost-cutting, and spray-and-pray strategies out of desperation have historically led to considerable losses. Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We define bad corporate subcultures as ones that are misaligned with the company’s strategy or that undermine the company’s core values. Accordingly, their go-to-market strategy and overall corporate culture are based on innovation, pushing the envelope, making big bets, testing alternatives, embracing risk and learning from mistakes.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 26, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Consultants = Big Strategy, Little Execution. Client Needs = Little Strategy, Big Execution. But rarely at a strategy consulting firm do we help the client to execute.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

No business leader operates in a vacuum. Leadership success or failure is part of and dependent upon several contextual drivers that surround them — the ecosystem, the organizational strategy, the culture, the organization’s attitude toward change, and the internal and external stakeholders they must serve.

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

We focus our clients on eight organizational change accelerators: Use the business strategy as the North Star. Without a clearly defined and articulated business strategy, around which the executive team is aligned, then the change effort can go astray. The business strategy is the North Star. This is a mistake.

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We focus our clients on eight organizational change accelerators: Use the business strategy as the North Star. Without a clearly defined and articulated business strategy, around which the executive team is aligned, then the change effort can go astray. The business strategy is the North Star. This is a mistake.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. .” Managing change.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

Basic day-to-day operations will be automated, and people will be able to focus more on innovation, collaboration, and communication. . Prioritization and automation of data management. . Culture in this case refers to people, processes, and change management. Make sure that your company has the right data strategy .

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Nash Consulting

JULY 7, 2022

(AND HOW TO DO IT WELL) By Ethan Nash "Our only security is our ability to change." - John Lilly Because we are living in an increasingly changing world, it has become more and more necessary for organizations to be flexible, nimble, and adaptable. So, let’s take it back to Change Management 101. Action Item!

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. Here is an example from Microsoft on how they cast a balanced vision for AI: Microsoft is a technology company whose mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The feedback could be tough at times.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. .” Managing change.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. Decisions about what services to offer and how to deliver them must align with client needs, branding, and financial objectives.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. To learn more about how to develop leaders who can drive real change, click here. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry. Part of that exercise is to include a greater variety of voices and perspectives in the leadership pipeline.

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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. This short sample video from Neil Gaiman's master class on storytelling provides a great example of how to put these all together: Lead with Questions. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For example, at some organizations, not everyone with the title of manager has direct reports to lead and manage; they often manage a process or function. Teaching these managers how to charter and lead a team would not align with their reality.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox.

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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. Leveraging digital skills across the organization.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I’m working with a CEO who’s in the midst of rethinking her company’s strategy so it can better meet customer demands and thrive financially. These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization.

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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. They confidently seize opportunities.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

A study involving over 400 executives from 48 companies connected strategy and innovation performance directly with good leadership habits. Trust and Change: Studies have demonstrated that the level of trust in leadership directly correlates to employee retention, organizational commitment, and support for organizational change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

Data analytics provide leaders with new insights and understanding of how to transform their business. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations leading to reduced costs and increased revenue. Cognitive and predictive analytics go one step further, allowing organizations to transform during market changes quickly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets. Given the shift in immediate U.S. That is what GM is trying to do.

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