Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2020

It could provide you with the chance of growing your market share. A restructure may also result in economies of scale. However, to limit the potential headache, here are five tips for achieving a successful business merger: What are your overall goals? Do you want to grow your market share? Performing the integration.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Most people grapple with multiple disruptions, from hybrid teams to restructuring, digital transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. A marketing manager, for example, can easily create a brand positioning statement for a new brand—they have the knowledge, skill, and experience to draw upon.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world. With such an expansive spending goal in mind, cutting down on spending wherever possible and moving to cheaper labor markets seems to be the way forward.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Unless these are aligned with the organization’s strategic long-term goals, they aren’t supporting the motivation and attitudes needed to drive innovation efforts. Grundfos, the Danish water pump manufacturer, is among the legacy organizations that have intentionally restructured their rewards systems to boost innovation.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cruise layoffs will affect around 24% of its workforce as it works to restructure operations following an accident that forced it to halt U.S. GM Cruise’s goal after layoffs As per a Cruise representative the company’s goal is now to work on a fully driverless L4 service, as well as relaunching ride-hailing in one city to start.

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HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals. You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. Layoff due to restructuring. Unfortunately, this means that restructuring within your department is necessary.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

All of our efforts to advance our goals are futile if we don’t have new leaders ready to jump onboard. We are bringing in new talent with experience in developing programs, marketing, and engagement. Restructuring our organizational foundation has been a journey of sweat and examination. Plus, we need to act on them.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team. What is Agile HR?

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. To make this happen, you must be well-equipped with the tools and know-how to achieve organizational goals. How will you achieve that goal?

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. That’s because bold, audacious goals are often perceived as daunting and unachievable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

How will you advance the goal of the meeting? Mark’s boss was leading meetings to discuss restructuring the research business, and hadn’t been including Mark on the invites. In an effort to not step on toes, he had been deferring to his boss on the restructuring — but his passive approach was undermining him.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

This can be done in various ways, including automating processes, restructuring how tasks are completed, and minimizing the amount of time employees spend on non-productive activities. Financial technology companies can also help improve efficiency by introducing new tools and products to the market.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I later discovered they had a list of 37 urgent goals and objectives. Partial and Piecemeal Programs The senior management team of a large national retailer, enjoying a dominant position in its markets, realized they had to make several radical changes to reduce costs while boosting service levels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In their minds, shaking things up is a decisive way to achieve goals. There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). Finally, take a process view of your new organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Achieving goals was everything. Leaders who are intimidating can use their muscle to implement difficult changes that past leaders avoided — for example, an organizational restructure that disrupts an existing power hierarchy. Consider two examples.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. That’s precisely the goal of General Electric’s GE Ventures unit: foster and scale businesses with a billion-dollar potential.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.” What steps should you take to protect your job?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. They know the local market, promote their offerings in the community, and often serve as community leaders. Here’s an example to put this into context.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

That may be why so many people delay putting themselves on the job market even when they know they should act. So he remained at the company — and the next time there was a restructuring, he was laid off. You don't even have to mention job search, and some may be willing to help you achieve your general career goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It included both an internal and an external survey, the goal of which was to find other places in the business where a given problem might exist in a slightly different form, to identify related internal projects already in existence, and to find commercially available solutions to problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers. Gathering Type 2 feedback lets you take a fundamental look at whether your repeatable model remains competitive and whether there are discontinuities in the market that could undermine it. For that you need Type 2 feedback.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Do you work in a company that requires you to coordinate across reporting lines to accomplish your goals? Matrix organizations are becoming more common as organizations grow larger, become more complex, and/or enter global markets. Misaligned goals. Leadership In a Matrix. Think “we” instead of “me.”. Conflicting Loyalties.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A successful leadership transition depends on substantial cognitive restructuring. Research has revealed that successful leaders are skilled at “sustaining the vision” of their companies by modeling optimism about their goals and flexibility about how to reach them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

This initial lack of commercial players and interests was critical — it allowed the formation of a network architecture that shared resources in a way that would not have occurred in a market-driven system. Regulators could remake the financial system by rethinking the best way to achieve policy goals, without diluting standards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? If the ultimate goal is to create both economic value and social value, how do you strike that balance? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

If your new initiative involves, say, improving employee health, zero in on a particular goal, such as decreasing employees’ back pain or helping workers quit smoking. Your colleagues are more likely to respond to specific initiatives rather than lofty, ambiguous goals. Pick precisely where you want to focus. Gather feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. One reason stock prices increase so much when activism is announced is that market participants perceive an increased probability that the company will be sold at a premium, or at least be shaken up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. The goal here is not UX for the sake of UX, but UX as a medium and platform for value creation and capture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. Certainly an important goal for Walmart’s board and current management is to improve the company’s compliance capability.

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