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Executives must modify the footprints of their organizations in these changing times

Modifying Your Footprint for Changing Times

To keep pace with changing times, leaders must re-think the entire footprint of how their organizations are structured and how they operate.

Learning agility is the key to building a great team

Learning Agility: Key to Building a Great Team

Building an organization design team? Evaluate candidates’ “learning agility” – their ability to master new skills and find new solutions.

Effective change leadership requires decisiveness

In Praise of Decisiveness: Change Leadership Techniques to Conquer Indecision

Many executives struggle with making decisions in their business leadership roles. Consider these four questions when faced with a significant decision.

Digital transformation is key to strategic success

A Clear Strategy is Key to Digital Transformation Success

The guidelines outlined here can be an effective roadmap to help drive a successful digital transformation.

Differentiation through corporate strategy.

Differentiation Through Corporate Strategy

Corporate strategy can be a point of differentiation. Look at your business as you would an investment portfolio and determine how to allocate resources in ways that create the greatest returns.

In business, use these key phrases to drive change conversations during a transformation

Three Key Phrases That Can Drive Change

For Alignment Leaders and Change Partners who want to be more effective in leading their change initiatives, here are a few key phrases to help start conversations.

A word of caution when adjusting spans and layers.

Spans and Layers: A Word of Caution

These three steps can help leaders get the most out of spans and layers adjustments. and make sure a span and layer analysis doesn’t lead to unintended consequences.

Successful business relationships are built on these 5 values

Organization Culture & Business Relationships, Part 2: Five Essential Business Values

These 5 essential business values will increase your organization’s capabilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience.

Optimizing the customer experience in business relationships

Organization Culture & Business Relationships-5 Ways to Optimize Customer Experiences, Part 1

The right organization design and structure, combined with a company-wide commitment to deliver differentiated customer experiences, will enable your business to build and maintain long-term customer loyalty.

Matrix Organization

Architecting Your Matrix Organization for Marketplace Success

So, you’ve determined that a matrix organization aligns with and will drive your strategic objectives.  Now what? How do you design the best matrix organization for you? Setting up a matrix may seem simple—determine where the solid and dotted reporting lines go and send out an email.  If our recent executive guide on Designing and Implementing a Successful Matrix Organization