Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link].

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Management Consultants: Management consultants, in practice also known as business consultants or organizational advisors, are consultants who focus on all sorts of organizational concerns from strategy to a variety of elements within management. There are three main types of business consultants.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. These are the three biggest challenges we’ve seen: Integrating digital talent into the core business. However, one serious challenge that often arises with accelerators is how to integrate new talent into the core business.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The same can be said about companies that ramp up their workforce planning and talent development. Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations.

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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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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In 2020, the financial services industry had to put its crisis management plans into action. Most companies had to pivot without much notice, ensuring they could adjust to new rules regarding how organizations were (or weren’t) allowed to open and operate during the pandemic. Do You Need to Refresh Your Crisis Management Training?

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 2, 2018

The consultant has talent but not much experience. Field of expertise — Consultants who can diagnose problems and create sound strategies and actionable plans can charge more than those who focus on more tactical work like project management. Dear Liz, I have a quick question. Can you ballpark this for me?

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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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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. Our strategy is to build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge infused with artificial intelligence. One way to rise above the talent challenge is with workforce planning.

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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. These seven transformative characteristics are essential in three main areas of an operating model.

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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.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

At the same time, the talent component shouldn’t be left aside: data alone cannot lead companies to success without human expertise to use in an efficient way. . Basic day-to-day operations will be automated, and people will be able to focus more on innovation, collaboration, and communication. . Real-time data processing and delivery.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

96% Job Relevance 97% Satisfaction 92% Net Promoter Score These experienced leaders were charged with project management , program management, and portfolio management across previously siloed functions and departments that were used to doing their own thing and being successful within their own span of control.

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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

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. workers, Gallup reported that almost two-thirds of employees operate on matrixed teams. In a recent study of over 14,000 U.S. Is ownership and accountability clear enough?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A total of 8 Managing Directors over various regions and issue areas help him lead the widely respected firm. The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Talent Assessment.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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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. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong.

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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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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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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

APRIL 18, 2022

A couple of the biggest challenges leaders will continue to face in the future are retaining top talent and creating inclusive workplaces that bring out the best in all employees. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations leading to reduced costs and increased revenue. Reflection improves critical thinking capacity.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. Lack of leader engagement throughout the organization is jeopardizing strategic change initiatives, the survey found. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. They: Share a compelling, clear purpose: Purpose is the guardrail for actions.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update.

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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 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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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Instead, change is part of their broader operational paradigm. Organizations can capitalize on opportunities, adapt to market shifts, embrace emerging technologies, and take other steps that keep them ahead of the competition by being open to change. However, while change is powerful, it also creates challenges.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank. “He hates change.” ” “He really doesn’t like the new strategy, though,” Sena said.

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