Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

People & Strategy, 2010. We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. They grapple with the question of how to align the components of the organization to execute strategy and remove barriers so that members of the organization can make the right decisions and do their best work.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But how did it hit on this winning strategy? IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. For example, when the first IKEA catalogue came out in 1951, many retailers had similar, mail-order business models. Quite the contrary.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

McKinsey’s Bay Area offices serve major technology and financial firms, as well as leading healthcare and retail companies needing strategy and innovation help. Here’s why: the firm’s leadership is always looking for new strategy and new, creative ways to bring value to clients. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. My Australian friend explained that each of his five business unit presidents was using the Strategy Choice Cascade, and that all of them had gotten stuck in the same place.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients. Craft a Behavior-Change Strategy. Does your organization prefer weekly staff meeting announcements, newsletter case study examples, quarterly prizes for model behavior, or financial incentives?

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

” “Craft brand identities that position products and companies to capture #1 category positions. VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. He noted his accomplishments in several areas: strategy development and execution, branding and marketing, sales, partnerships, and IP. 5M to $10M.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Measuring customer service and satisfaction in ways similar to a luxury products or hospitality company played a significant role in Rackspace’s success. Unit sales don’t.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. I essentially work with the clients internally to set up marketing and brand strategies for success. Are these smaller businesses, mid-sized?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

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