Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.”

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. But I’m struggling to reconcile his success with everything I’ve seen and studied, which runs counter to Byrne’s experience.

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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. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This will increase digital agility, make them better able to respond to the changes in customer demands and remain competitive. To increase usage, Progressus offers a range of support and training options to assist customers in successfully implementing and using the software effectively. Interested in learning more?

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. Most of the time the managers say, “Nothing, yet.”

Training 52

Training Training Emotional Intelligence Leadership 52

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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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

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. It was a highly valued change. This has paid off dramatically.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? But, according to a study by one of us (Christopher) of C-suite executives from India, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and the U.K., and the U.K.,

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Culture has been studied for years, resulting in many different models and definitions. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Also, if ten employees are asked to define the company culture, there may be ten different answers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The candidate unit should have low staff churn — the movement of staff in and out of job roles — which makes it easier to train teams. 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

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. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images. Why is the failure rate so high?

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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.” And then nothing changes. Reining in this behavior requires a change in police culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The more calls they received, the more operators they needed, and the more their margins eroded. Even when they found good people, many new service agents were pulled out of their two-month training program in as little as two weeks. ” Yeah, ouch. They couldn’t recruit fast enough. Make It Safe to Ask for Help.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Pharma PPM Toolbox Conference 2024 April, 17-18, Basel, Switzerland The event is dedicated to discussing the key success factors of project portfolio management in the pharmaceutical industry – portfolio evaluation, prioritization, and optimization. There will be four areas of focus – Landscape, Process, Design, Technology, and People.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. “If you don’t like the results you are getting, then you need to change the design of the organization.” The stakes, in other words, were high.

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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. Best Buy responded by reengineering the design of its stores and training some of its staff to be generalists who could help women traverse their stores. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

But there is no question that the price tag and the effort required to train and motivate physicians and staff were worth it. Instead of having to search for radiologic studies, they could access the studies as soon as they were complete. Build Trust. To do that, we provided immediate, on-site technical support.

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