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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Development.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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A Strategist's Guide to the Digital Grocery

Strategy+Business

The shift to online shopping and in-store pickup for groceries -- led by Amazon and Walmart, heightened by Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 -- represents an existential threat to many supermarkets and other food sellers. But that does not fully meet the challenge.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017. Digital disruption has become essential to the survival of consulting firms due to its cross-functional impact, proving indispensable to strategy, operations, HR and IT consultants ( Consultancy UK, 2018 ). Image: Pexels. References.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S.

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Free Yourself and Business from Market Myopia

Organizational Talent Consulting

Studies show that 85% of executive leadership teams spend less than one hour a month discussing strategy, and up to 95% of employees are unaware of or do not understand their organization's strategy. It is impossible to formulate a strategy, let alone a "best" or preferred strategy, without engaging in strategic thinking."

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital. Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5 billion and $0.8