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Align Your Organization to Succeed in Today’s and Tomorrow’s Changing Environment

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T HE PANDEMIC threw all strategies into the junkyard. Which Practices to Jettison The poorest-run organizations refuse to fire people. Yet terminating poor performers is a service to the performer as much as to the organization. What we improvised for the moment should be analyzed as potential longer-term factors for success.

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The Secret to Changing Your Culture When It Doesn’t Align with Your Strategy

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I F YOU WANT to change your culture, you need to change the stories that the people in your organization share with each other. If you want to change your organization’s culture, start by building stories. From these stories, they identified six attributes of successful culture-changing stories. These stories “star” one leader.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

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Now it needs a third use, for organizations. For much of the last century, the most prominent strategies of large corporations were vertical integration and diversification, pursued within their traditional boundaries, or inward bound. Organizations have always done so to facilitate communication, externally as well as internally.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

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The main problem facing organizations is not the pace of change itself but the “ uneven rates of assimilating these technologies into different levels of human organization.” In a digitally mature company, the digital strategy is a core part of the organization’s overall business strategy. Digital Maturity.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

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Beyond digital transformations, organizations are continually tackling other transformations, such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cultural transformations, and much more. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

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Established organizations of a certain size and age, sometimes called “legacy organizations,” are stressed by the entrepreneurial successes. The bad news for established organizations is that innovation for them is much more difficult than it is for startups. The Three Tracks of Innovation.

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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

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They are in an ideal place to see how an organization’s purpose, strategy, and culture are trickling down into the organization and whether they’re actually working. Middle managers are the vital link between senior leaders and those on the frontline. They can inform all three in return.