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. All three create the culture and work environment.

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LSA Global

JUNE 19, 2019

Do You Know How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings? While most work meetings are considered a waste of valuable time and energy, your ability to conduct effective leadership team meetings is essential to moving a team forward and carving out time for strategic, complex, systemic, and cross-team issues. Identify Clear Roles.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. Here’s an example to put this into context. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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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. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

According to John Kotter, a top thought leader on leadership and change, a whopping 70% of change initiatives fail due to inadequate buy-in and insufficient communication. This isn’t exclusive to the most senior leader or the senior leadership team, although it absolutely needs to start with them. This all starts with a clear vision.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

Decision-making is a significant part of leadership; many depend on the decisions. A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

These are, of course, extreme examples of cultural failure. But there are many examples of cultural erosion that are less drastic and closer to home. Prioritize and Reward Leadership Modeling. At most companies, the CEO and senior leadership sets the tone. Monitor Culture Metrics. Their brands have suffered.

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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. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. What caused this slump?

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

She explained that every large company was already operating with a “virtual” culture before the pandemic, even if all employees were physically in the office. Operational distance – How hard is it to get decisions made, get access to resources, get to people who have knowledge, etc. Send-off in style.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out. Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. The knock on engineering? And why not math?

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

All are high profile examples of a current trend to elevate leaders with substantial supply chain experience to the CEOs office. Beyond the operational and financial exercises, supply chain design is a sophisticated organization design task. In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Metrics Are Not Your Friends. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. They are less subject to short-term operational pressures, and accordingly less risk-averse.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Metrics emphasized speed. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. ” The first example that comes to mind when you think of the new sharing economy, Uber has fashioned itself as a quicker, cheaper and ultimately better alternative to taxis. ———– History & Culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

By the time careers reach leadership levels, as few as 15% of those talented women remain, according to some estimates. But despite the billions in investments, the number of women in leadership continues to stagnate, and women continue dropping out of STEM at a fast rate. Some organizations are trying to fix this issue.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

Tom and Kevin shared their experiences and feelings as part of Tom selling off ownership and giving up control and Kevin investing in the company and taking over its leadership. Besides giving overviews of our respective business we discussed: Strategies and tactics the operating company representatives have used to grow their business.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. What are some examples? In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. What is the output?

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When I conduct workshops with marketing and leadership teams on the design of strategic narratives , I’m often asked, “Should we include the sales teams?” The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. Focus your metrics instead on learning and the creation of network effects.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Sadly, evidence suggests that 50% to 85% of mergers fail to deliver on shareholder returns despite leadership's best intentions. The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. Influence the leaders’ leadership style.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

When I read the piece, it reminded me of a question executives often ask me when I talk to them about the benefits of behavioral economics or give them examples of how they could use it in their own organizations: “Aren’t you afraid it will be used with ill intent?” following the introduction of checklists. The implication?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. 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. They are rich, specific, and actionable.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. And so stuff that’s related to church, or an institution of faith, you have to position in terms of mentorship, or community leadership. Awesome, okay.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J. In another example, Ronald A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

My favorite example was a Corporate Affairs team that had an ambitious agenda to work collaboratively to transform the perception of the organization among members of the public, the regulator, and three levels of government. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? This will require reporting on new metrics. The first step is to pinpoint your starting place.

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LSA Global

JUNE 4, 2018

Before a strategy can be properly implemented, you must have leadership buy-in and support. The most frequently used method of communicating strategy is through cascading the strategic imperatives and deliverables from the C-Suite to Managers who then translate the strategy into day-to-day operations for their employee teams.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. They pursue management challenges.

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