In today’s business environment, management consulting firms must be ready to address client challenges and needs that will transform their business by 10 or 100 times. Tools and methods must be scaled up to ensure applicability to the widest possible audience globally. The Consulting Workshop Series provides a good understanding of the 10 methods of […]
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Learning the First Tool of the Consulting Workshop Series: Charrette
In today’s business environment, management consulting firms must be ready to address client challenges and needs that will transform their business by 10 or 100 times. Tools and methods must be scaled up to ensure applicability to the widest possible audience globally. The Consulting Workshop Series provides a good understanding of the 10 Methods of […]
Nudge Theory: Key Challenges to Consider
Changing the behaviors of people is the foremost issue with every transformation initiative. Nudge theory is a novel Change Management model that underscores the importance of understanding the way people think, act, and decide. The model assists in encouraging human imagination and decision making, and transforming negative behaviors and influences on people. The approach helps […]
Winning Your Way against Organizational Silos the Strategic Way
Staying competitive in the face of increasingly accelerated disruption can be a challenge to 21st-century companies. Many companies have started to rethink and retool their offerings and operation. This kind of transformation, however, requires a collaborative effort from all parts of the organization, no matter how different their processes, systems, and cultures have been in the […]
You’re Building a Customer-centric Organization, So Where’s the Customer Department?
Transforming a product-driven firm to a customer-driven enterprise is inevitable today in order to stay ahead in today’s extremely competitive market. The days of mass marketing, mass media communications, and little-to-none direct interface with customers are long gone. The emphasis now should be on maximizing customer relationships and becoming customer-driven organizations rather than merely selling […]
Organizational Silos 101: Breaking Barriers to Performance Excellence
Despite the emergence of new devices and software products designed to unite employees in more ways than ever before, the threat of organizational silos is still very real. While silos deter customer experiences and producing correctly functioning products – the root of the problem is that many managers fail to spot those silos as they […]
The Innovation Organization: How to Bring Intelligent Innovation to Life
The dynamics of Innovation Organization is the most important influencer of the company’s innovation performance. Management of Innovation–the ability to define and develop new products and services and deliver them to the market–is the fundamental source of Value Creation in companies. Innovation is inherently a highly cross-functional activity that, when it works well, creates a […]
Do You Know What Makes an Organization a Learning Organization?
In this era of rapid change only organizations that are evolving and continuously learning can succeed. Successful organizations discover how to tap their people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels. A Learning Organization is a place where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new ideas and […]
Employee Engagement Surveys: Are They Legit?
Editor’s Note: The author, Dwight Mihalicz, is a subject expert matter on effective management and hosting a free webinar for Flevy’s audience on Empowerment 4.0. The focus of Empowerment 4.0 is to help managers of managers understand the elements that need to be in place for effective teams. Most management training focuses on the “soft skills,” whereas […]
Employees Quit Managers, not Companies (as Proved by Google)
Editor’s Note: The author, Dwight Mihalicz, is a subject expert matter on effective management and hosting a free webinar for Flevy’s audience on Empowerment 4.0. The focus of Empowerment 4.0 is to help managers of managers understand the elements that need to be in place for effective teams. Most management training focuses on the “soft skills,” whereas […]
Agile Activity Groups: Managing Agile Companies to Consistently Outpace Competitors
Big corporations, by nature, maneuver like battleships. Held back by their own inertia and current business strategies, turning quickly can be difficult when the competitive environment changes. Likewise, high performance as measured by shareholder returns is impossible to sustain over a long period of time. No company consistently beats the market. A recent in-depth study […]
How Do You Know When Your Employees Are “Actively Disengaged?”
Editor’s Note: The author, Dwight Mihalicz, is a subject expert matter on effective management and hosting a free webinar for Flevy’s audience on Empowerment 4.0. The focus of Empowerment 4.0 is to help managers of managers understand the elements that need to be in place for effective teams. Most management training focuses on the “soft skills,” whereas […]
