LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Strategic buy-in and strategy execution hinges on the ability to measure success accurately and transparently. Consider the infamous example of Wells Fargo. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Next, they learned how to design a team charter with their teams in order to aligned team goals, roles, and strategy success metrics with overall strategic priorities. Do your managers know how to create strategic clarity and commitment with their teams? Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. But that was the outcome, not the strategy. ” GE is also using very different metrics for its platform businesses. For example, most retailers are merchants using technology.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We know from corporate culture assessment data that a positive work climate is more than just a pleasant atmosphere; done right, a positive work climate can create a strategic advantage that drives employee engagement , innovation, collaboration , retention, and performance.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Exceptional leaders dont just set the pace; they cultivate a high performance culture that helps people to perform at their peak. Performance thrives in a culture where accountability and transparency are the norm. Performance thrives in a culture where accountability and transparency are the norm.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

To optimize team potential, start by clearly defining the teams mission , goals, roles, success metrics , interdependencies, and expected outcomes. Encourage a culture where change agility and learning are prioritized through customized training programs , 1×1 coaching , action learning leadership development , and stretch assignments.

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1 to 1

APRIL 10, 2025

Read full version here: [link] Introduction A successful Customer Experience (CX) transformation program must be deeply integrated with the business strategy of an organization. So, how can a B2B company practically align its CX transformation with business strategy ? Below is a step-by-step approach. Below is a step-by-step approach.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. A strategy execution and implementation firm based in Sweden, today the firm counts 59 of the U.S. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. BTS GROUP CULTURE. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

A client of mine uses Microsoft Teams and I engage with them in the way they culturally use Teams, every single day. Even though we may think of going native as a bad thing in consulting because we lose objectivity, in building relationships it's a great thing in the context of fitting into their culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Here are some of the strategies that we’ve used, which are hopefully helpful for your business whether it’s an early-stage startup with limited funding or a more mature organization that has a restricted budget. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

” This and a slew of similar maxims reflect a common view of strategy execution: that it’s distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success — underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Corporate culture. I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Evidence of a negative culture would be a strong indicator of a short-term company. Compensation structure.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They practiced, applied, and received feedback on a proven process to co-create a team charter to define and align team goals, norms , and strategy success metrics with overall strategic priorities and team roles and responsibilities. Do your managers know how to create a clear line of sight for people to contribute ?

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Effective Managers

MARCH 15, 2024

This involves observing market trends, internal performance metrics, and feedback from customers and employees. This involves observing market trends, internal performance metrics, and feedback from customers and employees. Developing a Clear Vision and Strategy The CEO’s vision sets the direction for change.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lack of Alignment Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity and cultural alignment account for 71% of the difference between high and low performing teams. Is the strategy and culture aligned enough for the team to succeed? Does being a team increase or decrease the perceived risk of individual failure?

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Even the best natural sellers need a strategy around target products and markets and a defined role, along with systems and processes to enable their success and align their efforts around common goals of customer and company success. Great sales forces are made by bringing excellence to all of the following: Strategy. Organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Cultural variations are important. These cultural differences have a significant impact on multinationals’ talent and organizational decisions. Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Understanding the brand strategy. ” This not only reinforced the company’s desired identity as an entertainment brand but also helped seed the “SHOW” acronym that summarized its desired brand-led culture: S for smile and greet the guest. H for hear their story. O for own the experience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures. Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact. What would these things look like in practice?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. That’s not a strategy, it’s a mirage.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

While the word “cybersecurity” may evoke thoughts of highly sophisticated attacks that require fancy computing equipment and skilled hackers, the reality is that most attacks — especially in a corporate environment — involve simpler strategies that depend upon one thing: exploiting human behavior. Insight Center.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Next, they learned how to co-create a team charter that aligned team goals, roles, and metrics with organizational needs. Experiential activities included creating a clear line of sight , designing strategy success metrics , and ensuring psychological team safety. The New Manager Training program results were: 97.6%

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. What is the output?

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

How do emotions shape strategy making? ” The new chairman appointed in 2012 sought to improve strategic discussions by “breeding a new culture in the company — in the board, and between the board and the management team.” ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Stringer. Getty Images. The consequences were emotionally burdening.”

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2025

The Importance of Shaping One Corporate Culture Corporate culture is the DNA and heartbeat of an organization; it exists by design or by default. And, regardless of their origin, culture either helps or hinders company performance and employee well-being.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Management Consultants: Management consultants, in practice also known as business consultants or organizational advisors, are consultants who focus on all sorts of organizational concerns from strategy to a variety of elements within management. There are three main types of business consultants. Which cities should it prioritize?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The impact went beyond the one specific metric. In short, our definitions and measurement tools have gotten in the way of capturing the true value of well-being programs for employees and their employers, and traditional metrics, such as ROI, don’t always reflect whether the program is relevant to the employee.

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