Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The short answer: business development. The long answer: diligent business development that built a relationship over time. I've written about this before, that business development = relationship development , but let’s walk through the steps I took to foster this half-million-dollar contract. (If

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2014

Our friend John Persico is leading the charge to help us transition into a new and exciting digital future with the 2014 Loyalty and Gamification World Championships, a free online competition that will test and develop your skills and understanding of gamification and loyalty marketing.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Everyone is trying to do more with less, and to help them achieve this goal, organizations are leaning in to their learning and development programs to help them fill that gap. Their unique personal development support is said to be second to none. Boston Consulting Group. Booz & Company.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 10, 2014

. — Lindsay Kaplan (@LKaplan_NYU) March 6, 2014. lincy_love) March 6, 2014. A1 By the time you upload your response to the situation the public has already established its opinion, no such thing as too soon #nyuprsm — PRisthenewPR (@johnny_mk1) March 6, 2014. Angela JIANG (@AngelaCJiang) March 6, 2014. nyuprsm — Lincy ?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Overall, business R&D increased by 67% between 2003 and 2014. In 2014, the hundred U.S. At the same time, many firms seem to be unable to keep up with the pace at which this development is unfolding. More often than not, researchers are constrained by the lack of good data sources. Nonetheless, U.S.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In the online program we run to help working professionals develop more productive work behaviors, about half of our participants have agreed with the statement: “I’m sure I could get more done in less time, but the quality of my work would go down.” I think about my feet, where they’re going to land.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas.

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Harmonious Workplaces

MARCH 2, 2024

Persuade and solidify commitment using stories of triumph and loss in organizational development. I recently asked my mentor, Alan Landers, to provide an article on practical interventions one can use in organizational development. My wife Lisa and I chatted this morning about various things on our minds.

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Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 5, 2015

2014 was an eventful year, especially when it came to crises of all different sizes and scales. 2014 is officially behind us, but the risks and threats that leave every organization open to destruction are not. If there’s one thing that 2014 has taught us, it’s how vulnerable everyone is to cyber threats.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

While working as a director of learning and organization development at Google, eBay and J.P. of all emotional health cases in Employee Assistance Programs in 2014, up from 55.2% So how can we develop resilience and stay motivated in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change?

Energy 132

Energy Agile Survey Training 132

BCG

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Based on BCG’s experience working with clients, we have developed a three-part transformation framework. See Transformation: The Imperative to Change, BCG report, November 2014.) Develop a business model and an operating model to increase competitive advantage. Winning in the Medium Term. Winning in the Medium Term.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Halo Psych

JANUARY 13, 2025

Create SMART goals Psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham developed Goal-Setting Theory which suggests that realistic, hard, specific goals produce better performance than easy or ambiguous goals. framework is an evidence-based approach developed by Gabriele Oettingen. 2014, May). Try the WOOP framework The W.O.O.P

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) is a Federal legislative regime that came into force in Canada on July 1, 2014. For a business or organization, the most effective way to avoid liability is to develop and implement a CASL compliance policy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 18, 2018

percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S. It’s all part of a health care and medical strategy adopted in 2014 by the government—a policy initiative based on the concept that Japanese society will benefit from advances in both health care and the economic growth needed to support it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

The study predicts that if we can double the pace at which women become frequent users of digital technologies, the workplace could reach gender equality by 2040 in developed nations and by 2060 in developing nations. In 2014 the UK government published a digital inclusion charter aimed at promoting broadband access “at scale.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. .—while

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

In the fall of 2014, in the midst of controversy about Facebook’s real-name policy and selling of user data, a new social media platform called Ello caught fire. Recently launched by a few designers and developers in Vermont, Ello was not equipped to handle such a high level of traffic, resulting in a bad experience for some users.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Both launched in 2014.). So what are the metrics for high-quality social media? Accordingly, one strategy is to limit users to posting one link per day.

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Halo Psych

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, the most effective influencers understand that influence is an iterative process, involving: Listening to people Testing your position Developing an updated position which reflects input from others Testing your updated position Incorporating compromises Trying again Here are my top 5 tips to help you become more influential.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2014

Liz is certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) at the Step II level to provide insights and help develop individuals over time. Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm (Registration at 9:30 am). Wednesday, January 29, 2014. Up Your Game: From “Service Provider” to Trusted Advisor.

Healthcare 81

Healthcare Education Training Training 81

Tom Spencer

APRIL 23, 2014

We are delighted to welcome Meenakshi to join the Consulting Blog as a Manager for 2014/15. Three months in development, these three resources are brand new and designed to aid you in your consulting career. INTRODUCING Meenakshi Shukla ! Plus, she has the creditials to back it up. We value your thoughts.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In addition to developing programs on pain-management for our broad clinician population, we targeted a focused group of high prescribers. Engaging high prescribers. Using the dashboard, we quickly saw that clinicians were prescribing opioids at vastly different rates. Generally, high prescribing clinicians were unaware of their rates.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014 we partnered with Greenlight Planet to take a spin at door-to-door stove selling. Instead of selling makeup or Tupperware, they sell solar lights — millions of them. Through an Avon-like model, they empower a network of salespeople to engage their neighbors, family, and friends.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 12, 2014

Yet the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer shows that consumer trust in executives (and government) is at an all-time low. The whole point is to develop trusting relationships, and people trust humans that are honest and sincere. The following are some pointers to help you evaluate this strategy, and begin to develop it correctly.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

annually, assuming that people replaced by automation rejoin the workforce and remain as productive as they were in 2014. For that, additional productivity-boosting measures will be needed, including reworking business processes or developing new products, services, and business models. billion to 2.2 billion full-time workers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. A few years ago, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of electronics components developed a product that would become a breakthrough in its category.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian For instance, a 2014 law mandates that the government must show preference for local manufacturers over foreign firms when granting public tenders, without regard to differences in quality. ” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. It developed my confidence so that I now think I can do higher-level work. By reflecting on her knowledge gaps and learning needs alongside her line manager, Jennita started to develop confidence in her technical ability and a sense of belonging in engineering.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. There is hope in succeeding on our sustainability journey—and it’s more important than ever.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 11, 2018

The so-called Strategy of Sakigake package approved in 2014 accelerates drug and device approvals and cuts review times. In some cases, premiums will maintain prices of newly developed drugs. Other changes are designed in part to promote the development of drugs and other solutions for difficult diseases or health care problems.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

His views on digital transformations include his experience as a member of the research team that developed the first web browser (Mosaic, the predecessor to Netscape) in the early 1990s and as a technology entrepreneur. When Prime Minister Modi assumed power in 2014, he put digital transformation at the center of his plans.

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