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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

Change management is not just a skill or a process. This post will dive deeper into building the change and project management capabilities that underpin transformation governance. . Integrated portfolio management. . Change management (CM) excellence. . Project management (PM) excellence.

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Love your Organizational Problems, not Just your Solutions

Kates Kesler

The late Elliott Jaques (1989) 2 created a useful framework for designing leadership work in large organizations.?One His belief was that the top leadership level of the company should have a decision horizon in years. Start the change management process. One aspect of this multifaceted framework is managerial focus across time.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

SRI’s expertise plays an important role in what is now Gallup Consulting because the merger actually expanded Gallup’s knowledge base and expertise, increasing its value to worldwide corporations and other organizations. . During the 1990s, Gallup experienced its largest growth. Gallup, Inc.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

Extracting the benefits of healthy tension requires a thoughtful approach for managing the convergence of dimensions in a matrix. While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

To manage this complexity, our client created a c-suite role called the Chief Ecosystem Officer. This leader directly manages only a small number of people. To remain the market leader, the company needed to produce highly innovative client-driven solutions, while at the same time maintaining product excellence. Jaclyn Kates.

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Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

So how do you manage people where you do not have the practical knowledge of their subject and the job they do? Lead but don't dictate - Perhaps as a team member from a consulting background, you will soon be placed in a leadership role. How much do you need to know?

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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

Historically, P&L’s attached to each line of business (LOB) led to siloed offerings that focused management energy on individual profit targets. For example, one LOB is best suited to acquire a broad customer base, even if this means operating at a loss. Note, each leader is still responsible for one LOB.

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