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Strategic Resolutions for 2016

Strategy Driven

Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here). Leaders who held out for the perfect job candidate, perfect time to make a change, or irrefutable evidence that someone needed to go lost valuable time and resources. Consider leaving a comment!

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Samsung’s 2016 Galaxy Note 7 smartphone recall was attributed to its “deeply entrenched culture of urgency.” Health is about the how. An equal focus on health would have mitigated these issues.

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Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

Not only is this operational approach costly, but outsourcing activities face many challenges such as communication barriers, untimeliness, and data errors. Instead of contracting multiple external resources, organizations employ one automation tool to perform an unlimited number activities. Engage Customers. About the Author.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. She held a similar role of CHRO at Flowserve as well as HanesBrands Inc.,

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The Need for Employee and Management Buy-In When Implementing Change

Lead Change Blog

I knew what needed to be done: reduce operating costs, exit money losing businesses, and implement programs to accelerate revenues from more profitable business lines. What did we do well, where did we have competitive advantage, where should we concentrate limited time and resources? Within a year, the company turned profitable.

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The Future Of Work Post-Covid

The Horizons Tracker

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

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The 9 Rules of Innovation by Greg Satell

QAspire

Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Innovation can take many forms from operational innovation to business models and creating platforms. In 2016, I had read an excellent article by Greg Satell that outlined “ The 9 Rules of Innovation ”. Gmail, Google Drive, etc.)