Effective Managers

MAY 10, 2024

As a recognized practitioner, you commit to keeping up with industry best practices, emerging trends, and evolving methodologies. It’s invaluable for consultants seeking to widen their client base and operate across different countries and cultural contexts. The field of management consulting is constantly evolving.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products. Jaclyn Kates. Kates Kesler, part of Accenture.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

The process of developing a strategy can be time-consuming and cumbersome. Once a strategy has been developed, organizations often struggle with execution. The bridge from strategy to execution often fails due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. The strategy is not aligned with the goal.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

The process of developing a strategy can be time-consuming and cumbersome. Once a strategy has been developed, organizations often struggle with execution. The bridge from strategy to execution often fails due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. The strategy is not aligned with the goal.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Before committing to a new location, developing the move schedule, and finalizing the project plan , you should conduct a site assessment to identify any changes that need to be made to meet your needs and be ready for move-in.

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

And because most system implementations are more than just IT projects, bringing numerous operational considerations and workflow changes as part of the equation, project teams sometimes struggle to bring a diverse group of stakeholders into alignment. Growth plans may also change what executives believe is most important in the near term.

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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. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. This is where your systems thinking comes in.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This is me when I was in my twenties and I just got my master's degree in Organization Development. And I had this team that I was leading around human resource development. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. How did I start positioning myself in the way that I did?

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This is me when I was in my twenties and I just got my master's degree in Organization Development. And I had this team that I was leading around human resource development. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. How did I start positioning myself in the way that I did?

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people. From communication to politics, product development to competition—everything moves faster than ever.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people. From communication to politics, product development to competition—everything moves faster than ever.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Here are four ideas for establishing and nurturing a workplace culture where people are genuinely willing and able to provide exceptional service—even when asked for something that is not in one’s job description or standard operating guidelines: Hire people with a heart for service.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

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. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. And a very visible acquisition under Mauricio’s leadership is struggling. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Stu Heinecke.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 22, 2015

Tom: PIP appears to offer a broad range of services including Coaching & Training, Operations & Maintenance, as well as Strategy. Amanda: All new hires receive two weeks of training on the PIP consulting toolkit and methodologies within their first month of joining. Where does the firm do the bulk of its work?

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. Topics they deal with include strategy execution, leadership, people, processes and tools. Operations consultants charge between 80 and 250 USD, financial consultants will be in the same are.

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Prudent Pedal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There is a clear delineation between effective and ineffective presenters and business-development winners and losers. You should have done much research, questioning, probing and testing of your prospect or leadership team before formulating your recommendations. Drop the “intros,” “our methodology,” “our team,” and “questions.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. Department of Homeland Security has recommended it as a preferred assessment methodology. In fact, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. One write-in response to our question about obstacles to innovation was, “Leadership ADHD.”)

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Consider our Disney’s Approach to Employee Engagement professional development training course, which exposes participants to some of our best Disney business insights, imparting new strategies and key takeaways for building a thriving workplace culture in their own organization. Want to learn more?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If you’d like to learn more about how to provide extraordinary service to your customers, check out our Disney’s Approach to Quality Service professional development training course for individuals. It makes sense, then, to empower everyone to deliver great service to customers beginning on day one.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Furthermore, the predictive models created by big data methodologies do not incorporate the manager’s unique knowledge of the business. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far? .”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Participants in our Approach to Leadership Excellence training course frequently tell us that management today has a tendency to focus on finding what’s wrong and repairing it, or even punishing it, instead of finding what’s right and rewarding it. Photo Credit: Disney Institute. Let our experience change yours.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. With HQ in New York, firm practices are based on the EVA methodology.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. There are also heated academic debates over how to measure leadership effectiveness, motivation, and culture.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. Additionally, Brimstone partnered with the CEO to hold an annual leadership summit.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. A successful visit moves the process along to negotiation and contracting.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The essential foundation on which all other service decisions can be developed, a common purpose is a succinct explanation of what you want the customer experience to be at the emotional level. Here are three Disney principles that any organization can leverage to achieve their own CX goals: 1. Create an organizational common purpose.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But there has to be an essential foundation on which all service decisions can be developed—a common purpose. Consider enrolling in our professional development training course for business leaders. ” This is a succinct explanation of what you want the customers’ experience to be on an emotional level.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JULY 16, 2015

This week I celebrate one year since joining the team at Leadership Vision. In some cases, professional and team development only applies to the “C-Suite” or VP level, due to budgetary constraints or company values, or only applied within geographical locations. My Input finds those fascinating! Why Does this Matter?

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment energizes an organization and increases the stock price by 170%. A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Brimstone led the executive leadership team through our Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment process.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

I’m not a strict operator. The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. The senior leadership team then went through Brimstone’s Performance Leadership (PL) program.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Because of its adaptation to an online visual format, our methodology was able to communicate to Adobe team members in a way that aligned with how they engage their end users — through imagery and through analytics. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees.

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