Tom Spencer

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1999, Vivaldi Partners Group works across industries to help build strong brands, ignite innovation and drive growth by connecting business strategy with a deep understanding of changing customer contexts. E-Edge, your organizational engagement and change management program.

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Groups Case Interview Industry Interviews 60

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

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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Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem!

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System Management Nonprofit Operations 45

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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Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Travel & Transportation. MBB does have its fingers dug in these areas and are quite solid too, but their prime focus is on strategy and operations in other industries. Communications.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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System Change Management Healthcare Government 29

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

They reduced unnecessary work and process inefficiencies, proposing and then implementing everything from an overhaul of the firm’s IT infrastructure to a ban on business-class travel. That way, how they do it can be flexible yet faithful to the strategy. They serve as coaches, not commanders.

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Turnaround Agile Operations System 49

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

This means that the technologies necessary for successful space-faring, particularly human space travel beyond low earth orbit, cannot all be developed by a single organization. Adapting to change. The technology strategy focused on agency-driven investments and strict control over the internally developed technologies.

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Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

It had $140 million in assets, was privately held (worth $20 million), and had a plain-vanilla strategy no different from thousands of other community banks. Umpqua is “so highly regarded by its peers,” American Banker wrote, “that bankers from all over the world regularly travel to Portland to study its approach.”

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Banking Fashion Retail Financial 28

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The most effective change managers distinguish between controlling people and controlling results. During a second move the company employed a different strategy. What speed is the car travelling? To label this as ‘getting people to buy in’ is somewhat trite. the level of grumbling was high.

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Energy System Advertising Management 40