LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

Is Your Strategy Set Up to Be Operationalized? Are you ready to operationalize your strategy? A strategy without people consistently implementing it together is useless. And yet IBM found that less than 1 out of 10 strategies are effectively executed. What moves should a leader make to bring their strategy to life?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Misunderstood Corporate Strategies Undermine Success. Misunderstood corporate strategies threaten your success. A corporate strategy is the plan you create to achieve specific goals. If you want to perform at your peak, you need your strategy to be clear, believable, and implementable across the organization.

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Organizations use numerous strategies to control costs. Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. With data on how thought leadership is evolving, your team can partner with providers that have already developed processes to avoid wasteful or redundant activities.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Effective Leadership Decision Making. Leadership teams and organizations that can follow clear, structured, and healthy decision-making strategies move more surely and swiftly in the direction that makes the most sense. Three Leadership Decision Making Categories. High Stakes Leadership Decision Making.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary. Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Adapting to changes in leadership. Unlocking potential in terms of efficiency or effectiveness. Aligning confusing or contradictory goals, roles, scope and success metrics. Ambiguous or misaligned goals, roles, or success metrics. Misaligned leadership. Reducing costs. Refocusing priorities. You need to: 1.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While the practice of assigning players as coaches can create great efficiencies, it also poses unique challenges. When we ask business leaders about management, they tell us that they expect managers to do three things well: Strategy: Understand and operationalize organizational strategies to deliver the desired results.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. But in subsequent years, those hospitals started to close the efficiency gap, surpassing the performance of hospitals that hired insiders.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. All four groups increased their implementation of fuel-efficient behaviors. The intervention, it appears, encourages a new habit, as fuel efficiency measures remained in use after the study ended. The result?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership. Your sales team needs to understand that they drive the execution of your strategy every time they interact with a client or prospect.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

CEOs have shown leadership in presenting these long-term plans; however, to date, we have not had evidence on the capital market consequences that the presentation of a long-term plan may have. By contrast, forward-looking metrics were rarely provided for issues underlying the corporate governance theme.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

It’s a result of misguided strategy. For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows. Relationships aren’t numbers, though, and CRM isn’t an efficiency tool. Assigning metrics that measure relationship activity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! Leadership, or the lack thereof, is the top reason management people switch jobs (not money). This is not about ego; it is about building an exit strategy in order to get a higher selling price. The icing – the top three. The bigger you are…the better. Acquire great talent.

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LSA Global

MARCH 8, 2022

This fast growing financial services firm wanted to double revenue and increase efficiency by 50% while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction and employee engagement. Build Communication Frame Create a Master Frame for Change Communication Strategy to engage key stakeholders to be used and completed during Change Training.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This is giving us the opportunity to experiment with different change strategies within chosen populations in the company. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. Build a Dashboard.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. But in a world that is transitioning from physical to the digital and from firm to network, maintaining this traditional focus is a sure-fire strategy for failure.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process. The manufacturing leadership team would emphasize issues that cut across the plant and parse out topics that can be addressed by individuals or subgroups of the team. First, define the work of the team. Fifth, plan for overflow.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. Imagine if all manufacturers had, for example, a supply chain efficiency score, or all companies had a leadership development score.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team. The feedback could be tough at times.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? Relying too heavily on financial incentives to boost performance can often lead to gaming of metrics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

For instance, the list included a decision about embarking on a process-innovation strategy and one about bringing the production process closer to the customer. The process-innovation question was then rolled up into a larger decision about a broader customer-centric strategy. Understand their characteristics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Thinking like a software company starts with basic strategy questions: What do you do uniquely well and what do you know how to do that your competitors do not? Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening. What role could software play in that equation?

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

5 Principles of Positive Leadership When Change is Inevitable. Craft Your Strategy. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in. If you want your employees to support a particular change, the leadership team must be its champion. By using the right approach, you can ease any transitions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Essential Background. Spillovers.

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