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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

CORNERSTONE RESEARCH. Ranked at #8 in the Vault Consulting Top 50, Cornerstone Research may just be the most interesting consulting firm you’ve never heard of. Cornerstone Research has been around for over 25 years, and has steadily risen in the consulting rankings ever since. CORNERSTONE RESEARCH KEY STATS.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture.

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Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency

Harvard Business

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. Efficiency is about doing the same with less. Productivity is about doing more with the same.

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Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects

Johanna Rothman

Many people in the agile community promote a product orientation over a project orientation. That's possible because an organization has product or feature teams. That works until you have more products than teams. If you keep teams together, you can still use projects in a product-oriented organization.

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Local US Business Expertise Drives Success for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Cultural Adaptation and Market Localization Strategies US business consultants facilitate cultural adaptation and market localization strategies, enabling foreign companies to understand the nuances of the American business culture, consumer preferences, and market dynamics. Local US business expertise drives success.

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Supercharge Your Company by Aligning Culture and Brand

LSA Global

Aligning Culture and Brand. Many companies, when they attempt to develop a more positive corporate culture , try to outdo others in what they offer. Instead, we have learned that employees are more engaged and productive when the overall workplace culture is aligned with the company’s brand promise. A Prime Example.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. While those skills are useful, they are not enough.

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