Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. To mitigate the lack of buy-in, Johns Kotter created an 8-step change process model the first step of which is to Increase the Urgency for Change.

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Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

The question on many business leaders' minds is this: Does the potential for accelerating existing business processes warrant the enormous cost associated with technology adoption, project ramp up, and staff hiring and training that accompany Big Data efforts? If you can't define the goal of a Big Data effort, don't pursue it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. By creating this volunteer network, we were able to make dramatic progress in developing other aspects of our innovation agenda. TheCrimsonMonkey/Getty Images. More than 600 were selected.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. It’s time for that to change.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

It can sometimes seem like magic when we get the right people together with the right attitude, motivated to work toward a common goal. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Allocate budget for a team.

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QAspire

JANUARY 1, 2012

Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. A sense of urgency is not an attitude that I must have a project team meeting today, but that meeting must accomplish something important today.”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. The questions were developed by Press Ganey, the healthcare survey company, and were related to employee engagement. He proposed that we try something new.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The crisis that emerged in the Phoenix VA was triggered by the pursuit of a 14-day wait time goal for all appointments.

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