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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. In short, today’s existing leadership structure, expertise and purpose are designed to address today’s challenges — not tomorrow’s.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

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. Finally, begin to track the progress of your network initiative.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. Yet it resulted in a corporate mentality focused on making the sale at any cost. At first glance, this policy looks reasonable.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Pharmaceutical and Biotech.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council. The term “safety culture” is misleading because it suggests organizations have multiple cultures: one for safety, another for production, and perhaps others for quality and for sales. At Cummins, Inc.,

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. That said, writing for a trade publication is not easy.