Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

Digital currencies are revolutionizing the financial world, creating new opportunities and challenges for consumers, financial institutions, and governments. Lets take a closer look at some of the strategies being employed by the worlds leading banks and financial firms. Zuhair Imaduddin is a Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. However, such perceptions fail to capture the potential impact of governance to influence the actions, cognitions, and emotions of individuals.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. And that is the point: it all comes down to productivity. As summary, think of this quote by Golda Meir, “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”. So, where do we draw the line?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving world, organizations across various sectors are recognizing the transformative potential of introducing innovation into their governance processes. In this article, we will explore some unexpected yet highly effective ways of utilizing technology to infuse innovation into the governance process.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

I recently ran into a short video by the New South Wales government which does a great job of introducing the notion of behavioral insights and application in the governmental space. One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. Strategy Development. How will the wave build?

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. is a feature-rich PPM tool designed to help organizations drive strategy, manage projects, and deliver impactful outcomes.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Discussion on management consultancy often reduces the clientele of strategy firms to multinational corporations. MBB strategy firms and the Big 4 professional services companies all have departments specifically designated for public policy and chartable organizations, which is by no means a coincidence.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Diversify Revenue Streams One fundamental strategy for business resilience is to diversify revenue streams. Although it is fairly common for a successful business to generate 80% of its profits from 20% of its products, relying heavily on a small number of products, services, or markets exposes a business to significant risk.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

With 57 offices worldwide, Booz offers consulting services for top businesses, governments, and organizations. Besides their core competency – advising the federal government and its contractors – maybe this is why we could call them “America’s favorite.” Product and Service Innovation. Automotive.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite. Governance plan template.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 19, 2018

And then when new applications of behavioral economics started, they seemed to be mostly applied in the government space. One key observation I’ve had is that certain companies can have different strategies for implementing behavioral economics. Or they can pursue narrower approaches, like research and thought leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. is a feature-rich PPM tool designed to help organizations drive strategy, manage projects, and deliver impactful outcomes.

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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As you walk the show floor, you’ll engage with live demos, product launches, and exclusive offers from over 125 exhibitors. Leadership Exchange : Join the exclusive DevLearn Leadership Exchange to engage in in-depth discussions on strategic leadership, talent management, and developing future leaders.

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Management Consulted

JULY 24, 2016

Michael Porter is an industry heavyweight who’s won over 50 various awards; he has been recognized by several governments, large conglomerates and educational circles the world over. ”, “What are the reasons for strategy in multi-business entities?”, WHY READ IT? QUICK OVERVIEW. It has five parts.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. And while this equation seems simple enough on the surface, the strategies for optimizing it have evolved dramatically over the last two decades. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Banking Film Strategy& Strategy 132

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

While relatively rare, there have been a few cases of the Russian government directly interfering in Western businesses’ affairs. and EU increased sanctions on Russia that same year, Russian authorities raided the Russian headquarters of Ikea , which has long struggled with interference from the Russian government. .”

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Witnessing both failure and success in government, I saw three common elements required to realize positive organizational change. My first challenge was that I was a political appointee, an interloper coming into a sea of dedicated career government workers. Establish Credibility — with Humility. Enable People with Technology.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Innovations in spatial sciences, combined with big data, raise the possibility of the insurance industry introducing innovative pricing strategies that induce private real estate owners and local governments to take efforts that together yield a more resilient real estate capital stock. During a time when the U.S.

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

While GDPR is certain to improve choice, control, and transparency for EU consumers, these new powers come with new responsibilities and new costs for users, not least of which are ballooning budgets for government data management and enforcement bureaucracies worldwide. And governments are hardly the experts on data security.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” This idea that disagreement and conflict between groups can be productive is not new. Oysters and alliances have something in common: a little irritation can produce a thing of beauty.

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Productivity Survey Resources Training 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. The widely touted reasons for these failures include censorship by the Chinese government and cultural differences between China and the West.

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Case Interview Intellectual Property Interviews Operations 131

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Based on my research at Frontier Strategy Group , I’ve found that companies can avoid the pitfalls of evaluating emerging-market data, and successfully use it to support strategic decisions, if they follow a few key do’s and don’ts. It can lead to executives to miss investment opportunities or to develop faulty strategies.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Federal Government contracting is not for every organization. The Federal Government customer is a difficult customer to pursue, takes significant funds to do the business development, and the lead time can be years, rather than months. Government contractors improve their bidding position by teaming with related companies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.

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Kraft Kennedy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Today’s market requires new levels of cost reduction, efficiency, and productivity. Aligning users’ needs, application usage and product functionality can quickly become a 3-ring circus. Should Application Portfolio Analysis and Governance Planning be a priority?

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

A formal treaty with Colombia’s government is expected to be signed in late July. “It’s a culture thing,” María Lacouture, the head of government economic development agency ProColombia, told me. The government has agreed to land reform, making rural property available to the poor.

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Tourism Government Finance Efficiency 125

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As biotech companies race toward the opportunities in Japan, no life sciences sector has received more attention, government support, and regulatory reform than the important field of regenerative medicine. Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging.

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Pharmaceuticals Government Research Development 71

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment — is not only illegal in dozens of countries. After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many Government contractors writing proposals to the Government often tell us that the job of responding to the requirements of Federal Government solicitations (RFPs) seems daunting. Sometimes, we notice that respondents say the specifications are unclear or the Federal Government does not understand what they are asking.

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