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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

According to the United States Government Accountability Office , ten of the government’s legacy systems cost approximately $337 million annually to operate and maintain. To ensure the project stayed on track with strong governance, the client put together a change management team. What are Legacy Systems?

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LSA Global

MARCH 8, 2023

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. workers, Gallup reported that almost two-thirds of employees operate on matrixed teams. Is ownership and accountability clear enough?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here is how: Team Performance: Several research studies have investigated the connection between the leader and business performance. Studies have demonstrated that effective leadership improves follower performance and promotes higher business results, follower job satisfaction, and follower organizational commitment.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. Numerous peer-reviewed studies provide evidence that communication effectiveness is a strong predictor of leadership performance. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong. Schein, E. Schein, E.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. Companies are both operators and investors. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

holders – one studied integral programming algorithms and the other researched the use of higher math in meal planning in the military – it’s safe to say that this is a company founded on intelligence, excellence, and genius insight. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D. ZS Associates Revenue : $1B.

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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. So, the takeaway here is understanding that big changes aren’t a one-and-done investment that will last for decades. Interested in learning more?

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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

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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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The conference will cover a range of topics – emerging technologies, diversity, soft skills development, inspiration for project managers, and more. The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” “He really doesn’t like the new strategy, though,” Sena said. “They’re good.

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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. Reaching Team Goals.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S According to a study by McKinsey & Company, you are justified in this thinking. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations leading to reduced costs and increased revenue. However, the employment of impact of automation is not all positive.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

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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. Reaching Team Goals.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

This is one of the findings from a recently completed study based on publicly available information on the world’s 2,393 largest corporations for the time period 2010–2014. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Several companies we studied show the value of programmatic M&A strategies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just the start of change. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

However, the firm knows that these labor-intensive channels limit the number of possible relationships and appeal primarily to older investors (according to a Deloitte study , the average wealth management client in the U.S. The second aspect of the system is to provide operational alerts. across the industry is over 60).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency.

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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

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

As police expert and criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert recently said , “We know what needs to happen next but we just keep studying the question instead of doing something about the answers we’ve arrived at.” Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture. Beginning with James Q.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Level 2: Companies at level 2 have a basic understanding of their customers, typically coming from some market research and segmentation studies. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

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