Organization Design Is More Than Structure
Examining all the elements of your organization is an excellent way to ensure that your organization design efforts take the entire organization into account and increase the likelihood of success.
Organization Strategy
Solving Organizational Complexity: Keep it Simple & Strategic
Battling organizational complexity is a challenging endeavor and minimizing it is critical to staying resilient and competitive in today’s market.
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
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
Communication Salmonella – Tips to Avoid Serving Undercooked Information
Why is it that we know we shouldn’t serve up undercooked meat, but we struggle with serving up undercooked information? This past weekend, my family came into the house and were welcomed with the delectable aroma of something baking in the oven. It wasn’t anything fancy – a nice little
Flying In The Face of Data: Why The Logical Choice Isn’t Always The Right Choice
In a world where everyone has virtually unlimited information at their fingertips, we are living in the most data-driven society ever imagined. Whether it be through an online price calculator, or comparing products side-by-side on Amazon, or just looking up facts on Google, people consult data to answer seemingly every
3 Keys to Effective Change Implementation
Learn three best practices that can help you ensure effective change implementation within your organization.
Two Reasons to Take A Process Approach to Organization Design
In art and art education circles, there is an ongoing debate around the concept of Process vs. Product. The conventional approach focuses on the end product as the ultimate goal. Process art, on the other hand, emphasizes the creative journey—and proponents of this approach claim that it fosters self-confidence and
Using Agile Ways of Working to Keep Corporate Functions in Alignment
Functions within an organization can often take on an interesting dynamic. While they have immense capacity to influence the customer experience as well as the general welfare of the company, no one chooses to do business with a company based solely on the work or services of a function. Whether