Build the Right Project Team for Success
Diversity is key to creative genius—but there is more to diversity than most realize. Look for diversity in these 5 areas to get the best results from your small team.
Organization Change
Decision-Making in “Limited Visibility” – Are You Prepared?
Instead of reacting to crises of the day, learn how organizations can shift their focus to activities that help them win in the marketplace, providing tremendous advantage over the competition.
Beyond Paperless: How Digital Transformation Can Revolutionize Your Organization
Leveraging digital transformation in ways that transform experiences, create exponential improvements, are highly scalable, and expedite progress could result in revolutionary changes for your organization.
Leave Sequestering for Juries: Avoid the “Secret Society” in Organization Design
You can avoid making costly decisions for your organization by getting clarity in advance as to the intended benefit of an organization design decision and how the it will be measured.
Developing Leaders in Times of Change & Transformation
“They just don’t get it! They have training manuals, real-time data, managers, directors, and a CRM. Why can’t all of them just exercise common sense?” Leadership during times of significant challenges or change demands skills and abilities of leaders above and beyond the typical. Some leaders naturally seem to rise
Preparing for Contingencies in Change Management
There are many interesting parallels between leadership in the military and corporate America. While not everything that works for the military is suited to corporate change management, there are certain military ideas and practices that, when adapted to corporate use, can strengthen and enhance a company’s strategic planning and execution.
Business Model Innovation for Relevance and Differentiation
Business model innovation is an essential element of success for today’s organizations. To stay competitive in a rapidly changing market, organizations must continually reinvent themselves. At its core, good business model redesign is about finding a novel way to solve a customer need that hasn’t yet been met fully or
5 Best Practices for an Organization Change COE
To stay competitive, organizations today must be agile and adapt quickly to rapidly changing markets, technology, and economic conditions. Effective change management is therefore essential. Change management initiatives can be handled in various ways within an organization. Outsourcing is certainly an option, but another tactic that many organizations have used
Implied Work in Organization Transformation
If you are familiar with the Cube model of organization design, you know that Work Processes is one of six elements of an organization that must all align with strategy if the organization is to attain its strategic goals successfully (the others being Structure and Governance, Information and Metrics, People
Take Time for a 24-Hour Holiday Re-Boot
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey In business, we are always in the pursuit of improvement: having more, being better, going faster, doing things cheaper, and so on. As a result, when you take the time sit back and look at business life