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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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article explores the components of the ADDIE model and why it is an effective strategy for developing high-performing teams. Design: Create a blueprint for the training program, including learning objectives and instructional strategies. Develop: Produce the actual training materials and content.

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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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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, achieving this success requires a focused approach to strategies that promote virtual training engagement, effective instructional design, and technology-enabled interactivity. Key Strategies for Effective Online Training 1. Deliver concise, visually appealing materials that cater to different learning styles.

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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. Resource allocation to optimize the use of resources across projects and avoid conflicts to ensure balanced workloads.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. It involves balancing resources and managing risks to ensure optimal outcomes across all initiatives. It improves resource allocation Effective resource management is critical for project success.

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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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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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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. It involves balancing resources and managing risks to ensure optimal outcomes across all initiatives. It improves resource allocation Effective resource management is critical for project success.

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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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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

The right instructional design consultant helps companies revitalize their L&D strategies. Resource Efficiency Leveraging an instructional design consultant can significantly save time and resources for your company. Enter instructional design consulting. They ensure training is embraced, not merely endured.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

Rather than relying solely on intuition or assumptions, product teams gather and analyze data from various sources, such as market research surveys, customer behavior, market trends, and performance metrics. Insights gleaned from the data is used to guide the development, iteration, and optimization of products as well as marketing strategy.

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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. Good Product Portfolio Management Contributes to Better Resource Utilization.

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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

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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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. Insight Center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

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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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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Identifying Training Gaps The starting point of a successful training strategy is understanding where skills gaps exist within the organization. Organizations can make informed decisions about their training needs by analyzing metrics, conducting surveys, and gathering input from management.

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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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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

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.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

For years, agile teams and organizations have measured success using process metrics – time to market, team throughput and cycle times, improved quality, and better predictability of output. An important outcome of agility is increased alignment and visibility between the business strategy and the work that is being done.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Why is the previous strategy no longer good enough? And perhaps most overlooked of all: How does this new strategy or change link to previous strategies? How you choose to use your most precious, finite resource (your own diary) is a critically important signal you send as a leader. Signal No.

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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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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

As Warren Buffett warns , companies that rely on EBITDA are likely spending every dime that comes in and leaving no resources to replace existing capacity to counter competitive threats. McKinsey and the FCLT have made a major contribution by refocusing our attention on the harmful consequences of short-termism in corporate America.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Foster a Culture of Accountability, Transparency, and Strategy Execution We know from organizational culture assessment data that that accurate, open, trusting, and fair leadership practices help to move strategic work forward. Do your leaders know how to create effective team charters to set their teams up for success?

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

He excels at assessing needs, linking business impacts and success metrics to strategy, identifying issues and driving their resolution, and implementing new processes, policies, structures, and behaviors. Much of Donald’s work has been international in scope, including projects in Europe, Asia, and South America.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Use concrete metrics to demonstrate your contributions, such as cost savings, revenue growth, or operational improvements. Explain how the MBA will help you achieve these goals and connect your background with the specific strengths and resources of the M7 schools you’re applying to. What if your experience is only in consulting?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category. Fanatic Studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. But too often, meetings are disconnected from the intentional distribution of decision rights, resources, and priorities across the organization, making them unnecessary. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. Let them demonstrate value to earn more resources.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is typically a color-coded spreadsheet with one to two dozen key performance metrics. Each metric is reported each month. Each metric has a goal for the month. When a goal is met, the metric is color-coded in green. When a goal is missed by less than 10%, the metric is color-coded in yellow. First Name *.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. Your sales team needs to understand that they drive the execution of your strategy every time they interact with a client or prospect. Sales management was less positive but acknowledged that it helped them monitor activity.

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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 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. It allows organizations to increase strength by directing limited resources to the fewest targets. Metrics emphasized speed.

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