LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Impact of CEOs on Strategy: Driving Vision and Execution Stakes are high for CEOs; almost 25% of Fortune 500 CEOs are dismissed each year. We know from leadership simulation assessment data that the impact of CEOs on strategy matters. Can your CEO drive cohesion and a sense shared sense of purpose?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the past five years, stakeholderism has gained wider acceptance and helped many corporate leaders see the value of taking the interests of their stakeholders seriously when planning, developing strategy, making decisions, assessing risks, allocating resources, and so on. For that to happen, much more is required.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

The right instructional design consultant helps companies revitalize their L&D strategies. Customized Learning Solutions A professional instructional design consultant can develop customized training programs that align precisely with your organizational goals, enhancing learning outcomes and overall business performance.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Are Your Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies Aligned ? These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

This element of MOM involves gathering and analyzing data on key performance indicators, e.g., production output, quality metrics, and equipment efficiency. It means developing and implementing consistent methods for performing every kind of operation within the production process. Reporting and performance analysis.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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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

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. The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% Learn more about getting aligned.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In an era where environmental consciousness is increasingly becoming a priority, companies worldwide are rethinking their supply chain strategies to minimize their environmental footprint. Sourcing Eco-Friendly Materials One of the primary strategies for creating a sustainable supply chain is sourcing eco-friendly materials.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. By identifying risks, tracking KPIs, and forecasting project outcomes, businesses can adapt their strategies to achieve better results.

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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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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics.

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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. They use leadership simulation assessments , people manager assessment centers , and training needs assessments to continuously identify and develop what matters most to team success.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

How to Create Leadership-Driven Performance Based upon action learning leadership development feedback, here is a deep dive into how to create leadership-driven performance, combining strategic insight with actionable steps. Do your leaders have the career development mindset required to build a robust leadership pipeline ?

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control. Invest in training and professional development.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This blog will analyze best practices in training assessment that facilitate a strategic approach to workforce development and yield quantifiable results. Understanding the Importance of Identifying Training Gaps The starting point of a successful training strategy is understanding where skills gaps exist within the organization.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2023

While developing learning and development (L&D) strategies for their organization, many company leaders are introduced to the concept of instructional design. After that, instructional designers work on creating a compelling information delivery strategy, focusing on engagement and knowledge retention.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. Instead, they’ve tried three different strategies over the last few decades. Fortunately, there are strategies we each can use to cope on our own. Moment/Getty Images. My request was granted, sort of.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? Ron, welcome. Prayer helps.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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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

Donald works with global clients to develop and implement major change initiatives that collectively span the business process value chain and cover all major functional areas. Even before COVID-19, much of his work was done remotely. Much of Donald’s work has been international in scope, including projects in Europe, Asia, and South America.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

. “Analyze multiple scenarios for [business decision], including potential risks, benefits, and alternative strategies to mitigate risks.” “Suggest 10 creative marketing strategies to increase engagement and leads for [business or product]. “Develop a crisis communication plan to handle [specific issue]. .”

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For business leaders, this requires a balanced approach: leverage AI insights, but apply human oversight to ensure content, strategies, and decisions are fair, inclusive, and ethical. Whether you’re developing marketing strategies, creating content, or solving complex business challenges, AI can help you break through creative blocks.

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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Set the Tone with Clear and Compelling Strategic Drivers We know from leadership simulation assessment data that business strategies must go through people and culture to be successfully implemented. Without it, employees may feel disengaged or hesitant to share ideas and feedback.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. Strategic Alignment Links projects to organizational goals to prioritize initiatives with the highest value.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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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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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

eLearning consultants are learning and development (L&D) experts who harness their expertise to help companies create engaging, useful, and skill-building online courses. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

During a typical workday for learning and development (L&D) professionals, handling projects is often part of the equation. While developing training and educational material, L&D professionals need to ensure quality. By focusing on the primary components of project management, it’s easier to cover all of the necessary cases.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy.

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