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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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Analytics Training Isn’t Enough to Create a Data-Driven Workforce

Harvard Business

Based on my experience, here are three ways leaders can shift a company culture from a one-and-done focus on “training” employees in analytics to an “always on” focus on analytics adoption: Form competency centers. It might even mean rethinking your organization’s structure or core technologies.

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IT Can’t Be Slower than the Rest of the Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM IBM

Harvard Business

But what are the challenges that IT leaders are encountering as they try to keep pace and try to transform process and operations while the business is evolving? Where our clients struggle and where we see challenges is not in the area of new product development. Because large enterprises’ business operations live in software.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive. HOW TO READ THIS WHITE PAPER This white paper is divided into five sections.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Amazon makes extensive use of well-researched white papers to help focus the management team on critical decisions.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). Then it wasn’t.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Online recommendations, divorced from high-pressure sales pitches, proved an excellent gateway for industry customers to get up to speed on complex product lines. Bundle products and services better?