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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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. content, frequency, and duration) of their meetings with the job that needs to be accomplished in those meetings. A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. From The New York Public Library.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. 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? We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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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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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

From our perspective, organizational structure encompasses the goals, roles, tasks and processes used to organize the flow of work to meet specific objectives. When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Here’s where the rubber really meets the road: what are you going to do in the next 90 days? Leadership teams never communicate enough.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Here’s where the rubber really meets the road: what are you going to do in the next 90 days? Leadership teams never communicate enough.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Not only was much of the work force suddenly operating remotely and anxious about their health and the future of their employment; but also, their managers were challenged to keep employees on task, engaged, and connected without face-to-face interactions. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

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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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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2017

They teach all kinds of leadership skills necessary for new managers (or experienced managers for that matter) to succeed. They operate not by gut-feel but by facts, and are able to analyze the pros and cons objectively with the desired outcomes and relationships in mind. New manager training programs exist by the hundreds.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Serious strategic, cultural, and operational disconnects can occur when there are even the slightest of strategic gaps between leaders and middle management. The result, even if the leadership team is aligned strategically , is a corporate strategy that disappointingly fails to meet expectations and wastes precious company time and resources.

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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. The focus of the meeting was “Value Creation” and it was a combination of Q&A, small group discussions, and audience participation. to make decisions.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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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. Losing female talent in STEM is a detriment to research and innovation, especially because the supply of STEM cannot meet demands, and can lead to female customers being neglected by technological and social innovation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen. What lessons can we share?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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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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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. Today, he rarely meets in person with doctors.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. What is the cause and effect of specific types of investment — for example, leadership development, large group events, and communications cascades?

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

So it’s no simple task to meet the strategic objectives of such partnerships. In the survey, which examined 200 innovation collaborations between big firms and tech startups (100 in the United States, 50 in China, and 50 in India), we identified a major split in the way senior leadership at the large firms handled this challenge.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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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. Openness and Transparency.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Anything new in a big company gets bogged down by process, endless meetings to communicate and coordinate, and the need to defuse conflicts among competing interests. That’s not true of public companies, where quarterly metrics are scrutinized by analysts, and activist investors can buy up large stakes and push for change.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

“Asking for a promotion makes you feel vulnerable,” says Sabina Nawaz , the global CEO coach , leadership keynote speaker, and writer. “This not only showcases your leadership capabilities; it will also relieve your boss to know that there is someone who can fill your shoes.” What the Experts Say.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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