Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2023

A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

Management 132

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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Data Company Survey Video 135

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2023

A survey of 79 firms found that inclusion and adaptability are closely linked.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. PM Images/Getty Images.

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System Management Nonprofit Operations 128

Strategy+Business

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A new survey shows that when executives fail to focus on culture, their change initiatives founder.'

Change Management 47

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LSA Global

JUNE 24, 2024

The Top 7 Steps to Better Manage Stakeholders to Increase Influence If you need to work with others to achieve goals, effective stakeholder management matters. We know from project postmortem data that, done right, effective stakeholder management creates alignment, secures resources, and achieves shared goals across functions.

Management 68

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LSA Global

JANUARY 9, 2025

Values are not a communications issue; they are a strategy, culture, and change management issue. Aim for a manageable number of four to six core values. Use surveys, focus groups, and feedback mechanisms to assess employee perceptions and behaviors related to company values. Treat them accordingly.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

Whereas many similar diversity programs target only managers and HR , we have managers, administrative, and scientific staff participate together in mixed groups to capture multiple perspectives. Invite non-managers to foster communication across the organization. Many workplace diversity trainings tend to target only managers.

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Recruiting Recruitment Training Training 125

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S. employees, almost one-third don’t understand why these changes are happening.

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Change Management Company Leadership Training 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

But although today’s factories use automated workflows, process change is still mostly manual. When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. With a press of a button, the whole place can seem to run itself.

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Harvard Business

JULY 16, 2018

Unfortunately, too few managers understand this, and so there is a gap between managers’ efforts and the results they’re getting. Here are three of the most offensive forms of “motivating” I’ve seen managers employ, and three alternative approaches I’ve seen work wonderfully. Drive-by praise.

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Meeting Management Report Survey 133

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2023

Here is a four-step positive, strength-based approach to leading change that can bring new life to your team and business. Do 70% of all organizational change initiatives really fail? A common perception is that most changes in the workplace fail. While this approach has been used successfully, it is not without risks.

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Change Management McKinsey System Management 79

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In fact, at Duarte, the communication consultancy where I’m Chief Strategy Officer, we conducted a survey of over 200 leading company executives and found that 69% of respondents said that they were planning to launch or are currently conducting a change effort.

Banking 133

Banking Interviews Retail Survey 133

LSA Global

OCTOBER 28, 2024

2024 Employee Engagement Trends Based upon one million voices from the Best Places to Work contest, this 2024 employee engagement trends report comes from our employee engagement survey experts and highlights what currently matters most to employee and organizational success. That is a shame.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation. By explaining how the envisioned change will result in a better and more appealing future, leaders can overcome resistance to change.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. How employees feel about the company.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 140

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. But that’s how physicians see it.

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System Survey Bain Comparison 73

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a new survey of 613 global health systems executives and consultants conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by Siemens, 91 percent said that great opportunity lies ahead for healthcare because of the disruption offered by new technologies and new business models. What else will the future look like?

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Healthcare Survey Tools Industry 73

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. The meeting also included a read-out of the employee engagement survey scores that, in the midst of the turbulence of an integration, were among the highest in the company’s history. Their sense of normal is disrupted.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 26, 2024

That is why change management simulation data tells us that celebrating wins, even small ones, can lead to desired behavior change and sustained high performance. The neuroscience of employee engagement provides a deeper understanding of what truly motivates individual employees at work.

Chemicals 68

Chemicals Construction Culture Survey 68

LSA Global

JANUARY 15, 2021

Bain reported that only 12% of change management initiatives achieve what they set out to do, and over one-third fail miserably. Given that rather pathetic record for successful organizational change , it is clear that business transformation requires much more careful and thoughtful attention.

Management 36

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

However, given the unrelenting pace of technological change and globalization, plus an anemic world economy, organizations now need leaders who can effectively respond to constantly evolving business opportunities and threats, and chart a path to sustainable growth. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. What needs to be adjusted?

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Development Survey How To Leadership 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. That helps explain why failure is so common, but there’s more to it.

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Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 70

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Towers Watson Consulting specializes in HR consulting of all kinds, and risk management consulting in particular, while also counting actuarial and investment consulting practices under its umbrella. A total of 8 Managing Directors over various regions and issue areas help him lead the widely respected firm. Employee Surveys.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

A recent survey found that 80% of buyers don’t believe that the salespeople they deal with understand their business. A global survey of sales professionals conducted by LinkedIn (where I work) last year found that 83% of top social sellers work at companies with focused social selling programs. Better understanding.

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B2B Sales Media Survey 73

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Change management simulation data tells us that knowing when to change business strategies is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage and ensuring long-term success. When to Change Business Strategies? Leadership should not ignore feedback from staff who are closest to day-to-day operations.

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Trends 63

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to organizational change, failure continues to be more common than success. The pattern is clear, and diligent leaders often devote countless resources to planning out the perfect change management initiative. ” This reflects an endemic lack of self-awareness in leadership, and the costs are significant.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Change Management Leadership Operations 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They find it difficult to systematically hold managers accountable for gender-parity goals, to implement unbiased performance management systems, and to modify the way in which talent is sourced. Research on organizational change suggests that the success of any change effort requires the involvement of employees.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But whereas change in the business arena used to be mostly confined to specific functions or geographies, change now is enterprise-wide and it looks quite different. In a business context, change now must involve all facets of the business, be well coordinated, happen fast, and effectively manage the human side of change.

Management 36

Management How To Accenture Bain 36

Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

Company 73

Company Groups Leadership Case Interview 73

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The cardinal rule of employee engagement surveys: don’t ask for employee feedback unless you are determined to follow through with meaningful actions and answers. Curiosity vs. Action Driven Surveys. Surveys driven simply by curiosity only raise employee hopes that things will improve. Focus on Implementation First.

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Survey Metrics Culture Leadership 34

LSA Global

MAY 13, 2023

Benefits of Feedback During Times of Change Change management consulting experts know that all the internal and external turmoil experienced by leaders and employees can make work a struggle. Organizational change is never easy; some change resistance is to be expected.

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Change Management Survey Leadership Interviews 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. When they got back to Rotterdam Eye Hospital, the managers asked themselves why couldn’t they add a similar feature to their own “team-start” huddles? Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images.

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Case Interview Guidelines Transportation Airlines 70

Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation.

Leadership 52

Leadership Journal Change Management Study 52

LSA Global

AUGUST 15, 2022

Initial Change Communications – Do It Right from the Get-Go Don’t join the 70% majority of companies whose change initiatives fail ! Too many organizations and change management simulation participants are not rigorous enough at the outset as they strategize, plan, and communicate desired organizational changes.

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