LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 27, 2024

This fruitful partnership has involved various projects, from developing sales training to assisting in high-stakes change management initiatives. Their continuous collaboration reflects a shared vision for pushing boundaries and achieving remarkable outcomes, cementing their status as a trailblazer in the financial sector.

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The Clever Consultant

JUNE 26, 2013

Based on their latest intelligence, their competitors are not seeing similar dips in sales. Someone in the tablets division, who may be responsible for the sales problem in the first place? Enter the management consultant. People are still buying tablets, but not from Computer Corp. Something’s going on, but what?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. sales force teams. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s why a growing number of biopharma firms have been selling or spinning off parts of their businesses, such as Novartis’s sale of its influenza vaccine business to CSL, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s sale of its diabetes division to AstraZeneca, and Biogen’s spin-off of its hemophilia business.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2023

The Top Sales Leader Effect ? What Top Sales Leaders Do Better than their Peers Getting the right person to lead Sales matters. The impact of top sales leaders is enormous. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

These “have it your way” consumer experiences have changed the way the business world thinks about sales. They want to be approached with relevant offers at the right moments, not when it’s convenient for a sales rep. At an individual sales rep level, social selling can be powerful. Closer engagement.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. This shift gives CPGs an opportunity to gain rich insight into the tastes and habits that drive their sales. Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2020

With ticket sales in steep decline, is there a future for New York City’s famous Big Apple Circus?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For example, a company looking to lead in artificial intelligence as part of its go to market strategy must invest in ensuring that its engineers, product managers, marketing, and sales teams possess cutting-edge AI knowledge, skills, and resources. Treating all training requests differently based upon the desired outcomes.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. GM has good immediate reasons for its decisions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

These experiences were especially important in workplaces experiencing rapid organizational change, and served as important tools for women of color to elevate their skills. In her organization, there was debate about whether their associates should change managers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

It seems the reasons for this are twofold: Leaders too often express what they want in terms not of outcomes , but of tasks, and they rarely, if ever, make clear the full extent of the change they are asking for. One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Chief topics central to the job description of HR consultants are, among others, organizational changes, change management, terms of employment, learning & development, talent management and retirement. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Alan Weiss

JANUARY 26, 2022

Most department stores are organized around sales convenience, not purchasing convenience. What are you focused on, your magical six steps to effective change management or your client’s business outcomes and success? Most instruction books are written for the technical people preparing them, not the end user.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

The role of sales representatives in Russia was recast to act as knowledge hubs for physicians, since better physicians lead to healthier patients. Leaders should not be too quick or simplistic in their translation of social movement dynamics into change management plans. Practices for Leading a Cultural Movement.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Maggi’s sales accounted for quarter of Nestlé’s $1.6

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2021

Any professional sales pitch should be based on reality. For example, you may have a competitive advantage in government change management, but since you are not in the government consulting practice, it is not relevant. The sincere truth. This could be professionally disastrous. Going beyond the cookie cutter.

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Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In today’s competitive environment company leaders know that they cannot be complacent when it comes to building a company culture that supports a sales and service focus. There are so many options for customers, and demands for customized service and sales are increasing as customer expectations continue to increase.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Based on this study and our collective experience of working with thousands of business leaders, there are a number of obstacles and contradictions we see most often impact the ability to act ethically: Business transformation programs and change management initiatives.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Katrina, the COO of an international software company, made a decision to terminate her entire sales team over the course of a year. Get the Scoop from Employees. It was a move she knew would send the company into a frenzy. To mitigate this, she regularly asked questions before , during , and after the process.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Science Team intentionally refrains from using the words “data” or “analytics,” as the team’s capabilities stretch far beyond these two disciplines: behavioral economists, psychologists, engineers, and change management experts work hand-in-hand with data scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Change management consulting experts know that the key to business longevity is to proactively lead and manage change before it manages you. Managing change successfully is all about leadership change mindsets. But few sales reps actually changed their behavior.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

In turn, this can increase customer satisfaction and increase sales. 8] Final Words As we see, the digital transformation process is disrupting the manufacturing industry — it dramatically changes the way manufacturing processes are executed and opens up new opportunities for manufacturers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. In addition, PCC reallocated 61% of its capital spending among its three major divisions, while managing the rare double feat of both productivity and margin improvements. Strong capital expenditure.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. For Christian, that means setting up key deadlines or how many sales his team wants to make a day.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. They’ve also grown their sales 134 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 53 percent. They grew their sales 233 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 10 percent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

For industrial players, this set of criteria often turns attention to areas such as predictive maintenance, advanced planning, and sales optimization — all functions that cover large parts of the cost or margin base, are well measured, and show improvement potential beyond what can be reached with traditional improvement techniques.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

Nobody ever says, “Gee, I just consumed some really enlightening content and it really change the way I think about things.” Unfortunately, most publishers rose up in their organizations through ad sales and tend to see their business from a marketer’s perspective.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

My client found that every report she asked for, whether sales trends, customer satisfaction analyses, current budget run rates, or employee retention risk, all had some other data source that refuted it. Dueling fact bases aren’t uncommon in organizations, but they intensify when people fear being held accountable for the truth.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

You will need to communicate carefully, intentionally, and transparently with your people in order to manage change well. You can find more about what is required at each stage of change management here. Share Results with Your Team A major change can disrupt your company for months.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

You will need to communicate carefully, intentionally, and transparently with your people in order to manage change well. You can find more about what is required at each stage of change management here. A major change can disrupt your company for months. Incentivize Your Team. Share Results with Your Team.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2022

From the Abstract to the Specific Change management consulting experts know that leaders must be able to translate abstract goals into specific behaviors and then ensure appropriate business processes are in sync. Are you redesigning systems, processes, and practices to explicitly embed your desired culture in how work gets done?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Its expertise includes branding, corporate finance, corporate responsibility, financial & risk effectiveness, IT, manufacturing, marketing, organization, real estate management, research and development, restructuring, sales, strategy, and supply chain management. Seabury Group. Website: www.seaburygroup.com. E-mail *.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Consider a recently published longitudinal study by Anthony Boyce and colleagues that found culture “comes first” in predicting sales, as mediated by customer satisfaction. Surely creating that culture is just as much of a sales concern as an HR priority. That’s why culture change has to be a collaborative project.

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