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Corporate foresight is a necessity for lasting organizational transformation.

Corporate Foresight: A Necessity for Lasting Organization Transformation

Corporate foresight provides clarity for strategy, helps with aligning organizational choices, and guides in building the right capabilities for your organization.

Avoid the trap of groupthink in organization design

Avoiding the Trap of Groupthink in Organization Design

Groupthink can have a detrimental effects on the decision making process. Learn how leaders can help their teams challenge assumptions and conventional thinking to reach better business outcomes.

Organization design team driving transformation success through strategic leadership.

Strategic Leadership: Driving Transformation Success Through Choices & Trade-offs

Successful strategic leadership means asking tough questions to determine necessary choices and tradeoffs. Your answers will help differentiate your organization from the competition.

Organization design team enjoying a differentiating employee experience.

Beyond Free Lunch: Competing for a Differentiating Employee Experience

Today’s employees care greatly about the quality of the work environment. Your organizing choices should include consideration of how to create and maintain a thriving workforce.

Link your revenue model to your strategy

Linking Your Revenue Model and Your Strategy

When leaders think about the elements of their strategy, they should review each offering to determine if it leads to more sales or greater profit margins. If it doesn’t contribute to the revenue model, a refocus might be in order.

Mapping the route to organization redesign success.

Map Your Route to Organization Redesign Success

A successful organization design begins with clear objectives and outcomes. Defining where you want to go up front helps you better define how you will reach your end goal.

Collaboration, not consensus, is the key to delivering results.

Confusing a Collaboration Culture with a Consensus Culture

Many organizations believe they have a culture of collaboration when they are actually operating within a consensus culture. The distinction is critical as collaboration – not consensus – is the key that enables high-performing teams to deliver top results.

Managing Trade-Offs: Good, Better and Best!

Managing Trade-Offs: Good, Better and Best!

When resources are limited, how can you manage the necessary trade-offs? Understanding trade-offs and innovating around them to create new ways to deliver value can help your organization thrive.

Team using design principles to make better organization alignment decisions

Use Design Principles For Better Organization Alignment Decisions

Leaders can be overwhelmed by the number of decisions they must make to move forward. Agreeing on common organization design principles in advance can streamline the process for making critical decisions in the future.

Purpose-driven organization design professionals

Designing a Purpose-Driven Organization

A purpose-driven organization can provide unique competitive advantages that benefit employees and customers alike. Learn how you can take advantage of the intrinsic value this kind of organization offers by aligning purpose with profits.