Organizations that have survived over time have had to reinvent themselves over and over with the changes in the environment. These Business Transformations almost always include Cost Reduction that tend to lean towards Headcount Reduction. Headcount Reduction is typically achieved using 2 approaches: Downsizing Restructuring Downsizing keeps the fundamentals of the roles same with only […]
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Mark Bridges is a Senior Director of Strategy at Flevy. Flevy is your go-to resource for best practices in business management, covering management topics from Strategic Planning to Operational Excellence to Digital Transformation (view full list here). Learn how the Fortune 100 and global consulting firms do it. Improve the growth and efficiency of your organization by leveraging Flevy's library of best practice methodologies and templates. Prior to Flevy, Mark worked as an Associate at McKinsey & Co. and holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. You can connect with Mark on LinkedIn here.Author Archive | Mark Bridges
How to Transition from an In-Office to Remote Work Setting Seamlessly?
COVID-19 has forced organizations to adapt to the new norm of Remote Work. Many people consider telecommuting as the future of work. Employers who allow Remote Work have seen enhanced employee morale, output, and efficiency. However, Remote Work setting is far from business as usual. Management needs to understand and manage the intricate differences between […]
What Is Redeployment? The Most Critical Phase of Restructuring
Business Transformation is a given in the lifecycle of organizations. If an organization or business desires to continue growing gainfully, it has to keep Restructuring and Innovating with time. Successful Restructuring can be achieved by pursuing a robust 4-phase approach. Each incremental phase paves the way for shaping the next phase: Strategic Analysis Structural Redesign Redeployment […]
Suffering Profit Leaks? Use Cost-to-Serve (CTS) Analysis to Prevent Them
Supply chain management across industries is being revolutionized at a rapid pace by technology. By implementing technology systems, supply chain organizations aspire to eliminate waste, meet customers’ needs at reasonable costs, and ensure profitability. Enterprise Resource Planning systems facilitate in processing unstructured data at an aggregated level. However, at workflow or micro level the data […]
How Do We Understand Consumer Behavior and Undertake Behavioral Transformation? Know 3 Bs of Behavioral Change
Product managers, marketers, and designers are often confused as to what they should do to increase the chances of customers’ engagement and uptake of their offering. Changing individuals’ behavior to enhance engagement, productivity, innovation, and happiness isn’t straightforward. It takes a lot of effort, time, and resources to execute initiatives aimed at transforming behaviors and […]
What Are the 3 Obstacles to Overcome while Selecting Senior Executives?
Mediocre people occupying senior Leadership positions is one of the chief reasons for the fiasco and humiliation that organizations like Enron and WorldCom faced. The practice of recruiting average people at the top is omnipresent and often goes unnoticed until the results begin to surface, which is typically too late for any intervention. Smart people […]
Employee Onboarding 101: Starting on the Right Foot
The single most pressing challenge for an organization in this knowledge economy is attracting and retaining talented people. This can be a make or break challenge for the organization and warrants careful consideration during Strategic Planning. Starting on the right foot is absolutely essential to overcoming this challenge. Organizations, particularly HR, need to have an […]
Executive Selection 101: Selecting a New CEO or Other Executive Level Role
Mediocre people occupying senior leadership positions is one of the chief reasons for the fiasco and humiliation that organizations like Enron and WorldCom faced. The practice of recruiting average people at the top is omnipresent and often goes unnoticed until the results begin to surface, which is typically too late for any intervention. Smart people […]
How to Go about Implementing a Job Leveling Framework?
A job consists of various critical elements that are essential to achieve enterprise outcomes—i.e., talent and behavioral requirements, role, and responsibilities. Jobs that are configured inadequately bread disputes, negative perceptions, inequality, and frustration. On the other hand, structured jobs, appropriate distribution of work, justified authority levels, and correct estimation of value of individual jobs are […]
HR Strategy: 4 Benefits of Setting Up a Robust Job Leveling Framework
Inadequately structured jobs create disputes, negative perceptions, inequality, and frustration among employees. On the other hand, well-articulated jobs, appropriate distribution of work, justified authority levels, and correct estimation of value of individual jobs elevate employee engagement levels, productivity, and job satisfaction. Organized job levels are a sign of effective Human Resources Management function. The lack […]
Can We Transform Employee Engagement into a Competitive Advantage? Yes, Here’s How
Organizations typically focus on Customer-centric Design in their Strategic Planning and overlook the critical driver of Performance, Growth, and Operational Excellence—their employees. With cut-throat competition now the norm the realization has become clearer that employees are: The face of the business and create lasting—or perishing—brand impression. Sources of innovation and organizational knowledge. Representation of the […]
Digital Transformation: 2 Distinct Approaches to Talent Management
Traditional Talent Management practices fail to meet the high-potential talent requirements imperative to compete in the digital world today. In fact, they disappoint the key talent available in the market. A 2016 Digital Business research by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte on 3700+ executives reveals attracting and retaining talent as the most pressing concern […]
