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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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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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The Leadership Change Mindsets Required for Lasting Change

LSA Global

Change management consulting experts know that the key to business longevity is to proactively lead and manage change before it manages you. Managing change successfully is all about leadership change mindsets. But few sales reps actually changed their behavior.

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Future Marketing Suggestions

Alan Weiss

Get into the “public square” with your analysis based upon your expertise (supply chain, talent retention, IT, change management, etc.). Consider whether you can convert your appeal to the retail market (consumers) and not remain solely in wholesale (businesses). Err on the side of informing too many people.

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Crate & Barrel CEO Janet Hayes on Navigating Turbulent Times for Retail

Harvard Business

Consumers’ tastes are changing fast, but one things remains: they value quality, value, and inspiration in their products.

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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Nimble digital competitors are showing growth that the largest consumer goods and retail companies are not, for multiple reasons.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)