Actualizing your Competitive Advantage
What is the solution to gaining and keeping a competitive advantage in your organization design? Learn to bring strategy back into your thinking and focus.
Strategic Decisions
The Pitfalls of a “Closet” Organization Redesign
Conducting a “closet” organization design is fraught with peril. Learn why an organization requires collaboration and communication among all stakeholders.
Making Strategy a Rallying Cry
One of the most important functions of a strategy is differentiating your organization from the competition. Learn how to inspire all stakeholders to become change advocates who work together to achieve as unique a market position as possible.
Avoid Benchmarking Myopia in Organization Design
If used properly, benchmarking can be a critical tool that enhances and complements organization design. Learn the dos and don’t of benchmarking so it promotes your strategy rather than undermines it.
Communication is the Engine Driving Change Management
Why it is vital for organizations to establish a communication strategy with employees when planning a complex realignment?
Timing Is Everything in Organization Realignment
Markets are not static so change is integral to sustainability. How do leaders determine if the time is right for change?
Organization Architecture: Structure Follows Strategy
The philosophy of form following function isn’t just applicable to the architectural field; organization structure that follows strategy is key to creating a productive, well-aligned organization.
Resource Management Critical to Maintaining Strategic Alignment
To keep up with the rapidly evolving global markets, it is essential to make smart–but often hard–decisions and trade-offs about where to allocate resources.
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
How to Build Your Team for Good Decision Making
In theory, if you put a diverse group of people together, they will think diverse thoughts. They will be creative, they will be additive to one another, and they will ultimately come up with a better solution, because the sum of the parts will be greater than any one part.