Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Using data science to predict how people in companies are changing may sound futuristic. As we wrote recently, change management remains one of the few areas largely untouched by the data-driven revolution. Our advice for the change manager of the future is to make data your friend; never reorganize without it.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Human Resource Consultants: HR consultants help clients with human capital questions within their organizations and with improving the performance of the HR department.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It’s an 11-month project for one consultant: $320k in consulting fees and another $100k for travel expenses. I have a need for an independent change management consultant in LA. Recently I helped a consultant land a $420,000 consulting contract. That’s not a typo. Clearly this was a big win for the consultant.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 12, 2017

Generally speaking, a lawyer’s workload is more narrow and less diverse than a consultant’s; add that in with little to no travel and minimal exposure to different industries, and many lawyers are looking for a change. Management Consulting straight after Law School.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 14, 2015

E-Edge, your organizational engagement and change management program. Internships allow graduates to gain exposure across all practice areas and to work within different areas of the business: change management, brand, strategy and innovation. You could be working with change management or innovation and brand strategy.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

That is why when change is happening, clear communication is imperative if you want to preserve the mental well-being of the people around you. Embracing Change. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

That is why when change is happening, clear communication is imperative if you want to preserve the mental well-being of the people around you. Embracing Change. When a business is falling behind in its evolutionary journey towards adopting a Teal management style, it has two main options: transformation or reinvention.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? How organizations are changing.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Travel costs matter less than capabilities. . For example, if you are planning a change management project, you’ll want a diplomatic person who’s attentive to the needs of others. Not only are companies more accepting of remote workers, but they understand the opportunities that remote setups can provide.

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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. Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Seek out what’s not working: The old adage says that bad news doesn’t travel up. Tell the stories at company events and recognize middle and front-line leaders who are looking ahead and identifying opportunities. Show that the status quo is not enough anymore.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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. What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Yet I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I traveled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? My family was against it and it was risky.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Communication challenges –Communication can be challenging in a tall structure, as information can get lost or distorted as it travels up and down the chain of command. Benefits and Drawbacks of a Flat Organizational Structure A flat organizational structure can be beneficial for businesses that are open to change. Contact us today!

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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. In 1987, ZS was employed by a large U.S. corporation to reorganize, redesign, and reallocate U.S. sales force teams. It was the mother of all projects. Communications.

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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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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. Senior executives called on local teams to attack opportunities only they could see and address.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

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.” Ray Davis and his colleagues are genuine celebrities in community-banking circles, and in the financial-services field more generally.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” Building this culture involved traveling extensively to meet directly with VA employees and stakeholders, implementing a pair of extensive training programs, and on a weekly basis, highlighting and celebrating the stories of employees who let the principles of the VA guide their behavior when circumstances required them to go off script.

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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. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The most effective change managers distinguish between controlling people and controlling results. What speed is the car travelling? To label this as ‘getting people to buy in’ is somewhat trite. It does not do justice to what is a deep psychological need — putting a personal stamp on important life events.

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