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Continuous Business Optimization is a 21st Century Next Practice

N2Growth Blog

Establish a business mindset that believes in agility, velocity, and high impact value and through impeccable product and service delivery you will possess the power to differentiate your firm from all the rest.” Sure, continuous change can be disruptive to an organization that is not accustomed to it.

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How Courageous Leaders Address Fear In The Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Some other posts you may enjoy: How Leaders Create The Right Environment To Resolve Team Conflicts Managing Fear and Change in the Workplace Do You Give Your Power Away At Work? The post How Courageous Leaders Address Fear In The Workplace appeared first on TanveerNaseer.com. The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of citizens who contribute time, money and resources to their programs, formal organizations like the USO , Operation Write Home , and Operation Outreach work tirelessly to bring smiles to troops every day.

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Fatal Five Failure Factors of Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

Author and futurist Alvin Toffler’s powerful phrase “hinge of history” is an apt descriptor for our times. The “ Shift Happens “ video (my last post) vividly illustrates these dramatic and accelerating changes. Not Building Cause and Capacity for Continuous Change.

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Harness the Power of Feedback Loops for Better Strategy Design and Delivery - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BRIGHTLINE

Harvard Business Review

As strategies move from design to implementation inside the company, outside forces are continually changing: New competitors emerge, the economic and regulatory pictures shift, and customers have new demands. No strategy exists in a vacuum.

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Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. That’s still true.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. A senior operations leader I spoke to was skeptical that the quoted financial savings from Six Sigma projects, while valid, were having long-term effects on their cost structure.