Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients.

Data 33

Data Healthcare Policies Training 33

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Strategy Consulting. Bridgespan brings a passion for making the world a better place into strategy consulting. Many that serve clients with strategy come from organizations (like Bain or McKinsey) that offer excellent toolkit and skills training pre-Bridgespan; the training at Bridgespan is there, but not as thorough.

Interviews 150

Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At one client company, I encouraged the CEO’s direct reports to cue him: “Is that a ‘blue sky’ discussion or are you thinking about it as part of the current plan?” Any great ideas we have for anything else will be recorded and taken up in the appropriate staff/strategy/development meetings.”

Tools 28

Tools Meeting Resources Development 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. At a managerial level, corporate cultures, impression management, and bosses dodging accountability can all lead to a climate in which supervisees learn to report only the good news.

Company 28

Company Government Balance Sheet System 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The entire industry obsesses each year, even each week, with reports of unit sales of cars, influencing the behavior of auto producers, suppliers, channel partners, industry analysts, and investors. Nigro recommends challenging metrics at least annually, perhaps during a company’s annual budget cycle or strategy development process.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

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.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

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).

PricewaterhouseCoopers 221

PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221