Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2024

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. A company’s culture defines its identity and drives organizational behaviors.

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LSA Global

MAY 6, 2024

Unveiling Distinctiveness: Key Strategies to Differentiate Your Company Setting your company apart from the pack is not just desirable; it’s imperative for leaders looking to create sustainable high growth. But what key strategies to differentiate your company make sense within in a sea of similar offerings?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture.

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2023

An Aligned Risk Culture – How Much Risk Makes Sense for Your Corporate Culture? It depends, a risky corporate culture is not necessarily bad. We know from our organizational culture assessment data that one risky corporate culture may work for some strategies and not work for others.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How Unwritten Rules Shape Corporate Culture Corporate culture stands as the heartbeat of any organization. Corporate culture influences everything from employee engagement and retention to customer loyalty and profitability. These hidden forces represent how unwritten rules shape corporate culture.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2022

This article continues on from Part 1 , in which I shared some of my experiences of working with an internal strategy team at a large financial institution, and some of the main projects and activities I undertook. In this article, we will explore the 7 main differences between internal strategy and management consulting. Flexibility.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Are You Leveraging Your Corporate Culture Mechanisms for Change? Organizational culture matters. And when Deloitte looked at culture through workers’ eyes, they reported that 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe that an aligned and clear company culture is key to a company’s success.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Thriving company cultures are possible. They just require an actionable understanding of company culture and the ability of leaders to transform values into actions. Here is how you can set your company up with thriving culture. Why a positive company culture makes a big difference. Organizational culture is complex.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 11, 2022

No leader strives to create a toxic culture. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. Leaders need to be concerned about toxic culture.

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LSA Global

MAY 7, 2021

Are you aiming for culture change and coming up short time after time? Any kind of organizational change is challenging; but culture change can be especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors regarding how work gets done. You need to understand why culture change fails. You’re not alone.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2022

Where Corporate Culture Fits For some, workplace culture can be overwhelming. Savvy business leaders understand the importance of culture in terms of business performance and employee engagement. To create an effective foundation, you need to know how to shape your corporate culture.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Challenge of Culture Change Organizational change is always challenging, but culture change is especially difficult because it requires changing employee mindsets and behaviors as to how work gets done. It requires changing business practices to change culture. Organizational culture matters.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2022

Refresh or Reset Corporate Culture? Your culture can either help or hinder your business and people strategies. The combination of COVID, the great resignation, and high inflation has caused many leaders to focus on their organizational culture. and employee engagement. and employee engagement.

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The Management Centre

JULY 30, 2020

Have you been keeping an eye on culture in your team or organisation lately? However, no matter how clear your strategy is, or how well thought through your operational plans are, culture can undermine you at every step. Culture is an invisible force. All important stuff of course. All important stuff of course.

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LSA Global

MARCH 4, 2023

Consistency of Your Corporate Culture We know from assessing organizational cultures that the way people think, behave, and work can either help or hurt your business and people strategies. In terms of business and people performance, the importance of workplace culture cannot be underestimated. Should they?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 9, 2021

Your Preferred Workplace Culture Most leaders, especially those with new teams or at early growth stages, work hard to create a meaningful organizational culture they want for their organization that makes sense to them and their teams. But they then ask, “How do you reinforce your preferred workplace culture?”

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LSA Global

JULY 6, 2022

Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? At a recent HR Strategy Retreat , the Chief People Officer asked her team, “Is our corporate culture too nice to execute our growth strategy?” Certainly, treating your colleagues politely is a good thing but can you and your workplace culture take “niceness” too far?

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

In fact, the firm is already beating out heavyweights such as McKinsey, Bain, and Parthenon-EY for strategy projects in the tech sector due to better industry specialty. On the value creation side, Bulger Partners covers 13 different types of value assignments (growth strategy offerings, technical strategy, operations, etc.).

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Now, onto the top 5 personal power skills of an organizational consultant… Skill #1: Systems thinking. Systems thinking is your understanding of the organization and how all the pieces of the organization are connected to one another. The organization strategy is about HOW the organization will achieve its business strategy.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

———— History & Culture. Continuing to expand, in 2014 the company took on a new goal: to bring clean, safe drinking water to cities in need while creating a sustainable system therein. They care for their employees well; an entire department is dedicated to enhancing company culture and experience.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In many company cultures (and in many family, marriage or parent/child relationship cultures), the first order of business is to decide whom to blame. Third, having blame be a part of the culture engenders fear. I firmly believe a solutions-oriented corporate culture outperforms the "blame first" culture in the long run.

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LSA Global

MAY 4, 2021

What’s Going Wrong with Strategy Execution? An IBM survey reported that less than 1 out of 10 strategies are effectively executed. Unless you are in that rarefied 10% of companies whose strategies are being successfully implemented, you better figure out how to better execute strategy and fix it. Strategy matters.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Changing Corporate Culture. Some things are easily changed; corporate culture is not one of them. A key competency of successful leaders is knowing how to lead employees through cultural change. But cultural change CAN be accomplished with thoughtful preparation, transparency, active involvement, and open dialogue.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

And so a transformation is a system of systems, all made up of the most complex system of all — people. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In bottoms-up cultural transformation initiatives, the how things are done is equally or more important than what is done. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. CORNERSTONE RESEARCH CULTURE. How exactly does the firm help, though?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. They commit to going the nine yards with companies starting from strategy all the way to execution. remains in Chicago.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2020

What Is Corporate Culture? We define workplace culture as how things truly get done in an organization. But it is not enough to define, you must live your desired workplace culture. But it is not enough to define, you must live your desired workplace culture. Some strong cultures help companies perform (i.e.,

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LSA Global

AUGUST 5, 2022

Are You Confusing “Communicating Change” with “Leading Change” to Shift Cultures? Change management consultants know that corporate culture change is not easy and can be frustratingly slow ? Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

“We have a great culture.” Culture is often referred to as “the way things are done around here.” A great culture is what you get when all three of these are aligned, and line up with the organization’s espoused values. How, then, do we repair a flagging culture? We have all said it.

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LSA Global

JUNE 21, 2018

How Does Culture Affect the Workplace? As clear and compelling as your strategy may be, it must go through your culture to be successfully implemented. Because your workplace culture must be aligned with your strategy, smart leaders ask “How does culture affect the workplace?”. Get Everyone on Board.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

———— History & Culture. The company prides itself on its fun, laid-back culture, and believes that its products are a reflection of that culture. They are also looking for individuals who fit into the Square culture and who can contribute from day one.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2021

Difficult but Achievable The challenge to adopt a new cultural norm across your organization is difficult but not impossible. In fact, it occurs frequently in multi-national companies when they stumble across gaps in culture due to vastly different communication and working styles from one country to another.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Typical Towers Watson projects are specialized and focus on assessing risk for clients’ health and pension plan offerings, along with creating and implementing HR systems that fit both small and large clients. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING CULTURE. Workplace culture tends to be fairly similar across different offices.

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Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

Bates White advises clients on case development and strategy, evaluating economic policies and changes with ease. If your main goal is to land a job at MBB or another top level strategy firm, you may want to avoid an internship at Bates White and get some brand name experience in another field. BATES WHITE CULTURE. Core Values.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. The focus of this article is on Booz & Company because of its focus on strategy. The practice areas of Booz & Company include: Strategy and Leadership.

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