Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public company boards are typically focused on oversight, supporting the management team while keeping a respectful distance from day-to-day operations. In contrast, boards of companies owned by private equity tend to be much more hands-on.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. In these cases, strategies become what I call ‘strategically useless’ brilliant in theory but ineffective in practice. Three Reasons Why Strategies Become Useless 1. For example, J.C.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

Leaders must now manage teams that are dispersed across various locations, requiring new strategies for communication, collaboration, and maintaining company culture. Key Strategies for Leading Remote Teams: Effective Communication: Regular and transparent communication is vital.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

This article explores real-world success stories, key performance metrics, and actionable strategies to ensure your custom eLearning courses yield maximum returns. Deeper insights require examining financial metrics, employee engagement, and operational efficiencies. Clarity Consultants responded with a scalable workforce solution.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 16, 2025

This inconsistency leaves new hires uncertain about expectations, company culture, and resources, slowing their adjustment period. This not only increases operational costs but also pulls HR and managers away from strategic activities. The increased engagement leads to stronger connections between employees and company culture.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

strategy development, market research, transformation initiatives). On-Demand by RGP : Specializes in operational and implementation support; projects tend to be longer-term roles focusing on functional expertise like accounting, finance, HR, IT, and supply chain. Highlight your relevant industry experience and your focused expertise.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences. But the most common, and perhaps the greatest, barrier to customer centricity is the lack of a customer-centric organizational culture. Link employee culture to customer outcomes.

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LSA Global

APRIL 3, 2025

The Importance of a Consistent Workplace Culture Employees want to be able to count on their leaders and on their organization to lead them in the right direction in the right way. We know from Denison culture survey data that a consistent workplace helps to drive higher levels of employee engagement, retention, and performance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Building a culturally competent workforce is becoming more important as businesses operate in an increasingly globalized world. Organizations that invest in upskilling and reskilling programs will not only help employees remain relevant but will also foster a culture of growth and innovation.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 15, 2025

But how do you go from strategy to implementation? By answering these questions, organizations can ensure their eLearning strategy is well-aligned with their business needs. Step 1: Define Your Strategy The first step in custom eLearning development is to define a clear strategy. Lets break it down.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

When instructional design consulting professionals align stories with organizational goals, they foster a learning culture that promotes innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. This structure mirrors real-world challenges, helping learners internalize best practices and strategies for overcoming obstacles.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

In fact, the firm is already beating out heavyweights such as McKinsey, Bain, and Parthenon-EY for strategy projects in the tech sector due to better industry specialty. On the value creation side, Bulger Partners covers 13 different types of value assignments (growth strategy offerings, technical strategy, operations, etc.).

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2017

Rather than assuming we’ll work in one location, in our native culture, we will need new skills, attitudes, and behaviors that help us work across cultures. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Embracing positive indifference.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. Practices for Leading a Cultural Movement.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation. Designing L&D Strategies for Long-Term Impact Creating an effective L&D strategy requires a systematic approach that aligns with the organization’s business goals and objectives.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

5 Strategies for Advancing Your Career To translate soft skills into tangible career growth, its essential to adopt a deliberate approach. The following five strategies provide a way for you to advance your career. For example, you might prioritize authentic leadership, a strong cultural fit, or clear pathways for growth.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 5, 2022

Along with competitive compensation, a positive, supportive culture featuring a diverse workforce is increasingly viewed as essential. Many companies rapidly embraced remote work in response to the pandemic, a strategy that wasn’t inherently part of their workplaces before COVID-19.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Its main purpose is to ensure the seamless operational performance of engineering companies, including managing engineering teams, strategic planning, solving engineering problems, overseeing engineering projects’ completion, and ensuring that the goals of an engineering organization are met.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 31, 2025

The phenomenon of “ TikTok Refugees ” is not just about shifting to another platform its an emerging cultural moment that is blending social media, e-commerce, and cultural exchange in unique ways. For displaced TikTok creators, RedNote represents not just a new platform but a chance to redefine their digital strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2024

How to grapple with the complexities of moving operations in a tightly woven global economy.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future.

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People Business Psychology

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Trust the values Organisations list their values because they feel it is important to distinguish themselves and describe themselves; values may give direction to how organisations operate and how they are guided by these principles. Here are some psychological strategies that can be used.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., I'll be going over what's in this visual to give you a better sense of the true complexity of an organization.

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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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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2023

Consulting firms play a crucial role in guiding businesses through the integration of AI-powered renewables into their operations. Consulting Services to Facilitate AI-Powered Clean Tech Consulting firms specializing in clean tech can offer invaluable support to companies aiming to integrate AI-powered renewables into their operations.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . Basic day-to-day operations will be automated, and people will be able to focus more on innovation, collaboration, and communication. . Cultural challenges.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. As a result, you hire a team of consultants to explore and recommend marketing strategies. Image: Pexels The post Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

Teams operate best when they understand, believe in , and commit to a meaningful and shared purpose. Define Team Norms Once your team strategy is clear enough, your next step is to define the team norms , beliefs, business practices , values, decision making models , and ways of working required to best execute the teams strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. Foster an inclusive culture that values different perspectives.

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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. Operational efficiency improves CX improvements often streamline processes , reducing customer support costs and inefficiencies across departments.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 19, 2024

My extensive journey through the nuances of talent development, especially in the realm of LMS technologies , has led me to identify four key strategies that can significantly enhance the functionality and impact of your LMS. Organizations must recognize the distinct needs of their LMS operations and tailor their staffing models accordingly.

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