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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. Journal of Organization Design (Aarhus), 3 (1), 20-25.

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Unleashing Business Potential: Benefits of Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Startups that engage business consultants are 14% more likely to experience sustained growth, as reported by the Global Business and Economics Research Journal. Real-world Example: A local restaurant struggling to increase profitability engaged a business consultant to revamp its menu and implement cost-effective marketing strategies.

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We REALLY Need to Stop Talking About Lean

Markovitz Consulting

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric. As the WSJ explains: " Hoshin Kanri holds that all workers should understand the company’s strategy and how their role can contribute to it, enabling feedback and improvement to come up from lower levels." Consider hoshin kanri.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Respond to organizational crises with data.

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