Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Is your product as cutting edge as Tesla? Prior to joining Forrest Performance Group (FPG) in his current role as human performance strategist, Jamey served in a senior leadership capacity with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Is your website as easy as Amazon? Is your responsiveness on par with FedEx?

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Customer Loyalty Forrester Loyalty McKinsey 150

CEO Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

Warm (but not warm enough to melt it) I always like adding to my Time Management Systems. I think to some extent it also helps my productivity. Consider Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization by Daniel Forrester. You may never real management lessons in life unless you find the real meaining of life.

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Power Forrester Leadership Pipeline Blog 189

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

What’s the impact on organizations like Symantec (virus), Gartner/Forrester (advisory), HP (printing), and Microsoft (operating systems)? I run my own business and own all Apple products. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. How is technology changing for you? Is it getting cheaper? More efficient?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 4, 2021

They’ve seen them wrestling with children, in trying to manage personal and professional challenges at home, more Zoom gaffes than we can count, etc., which has given employers a deeply humanistic view of those they manage. The converse is also true. 2019 is gone for good. Many will want to continue to work remotely.

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Advice How To Forrester Incentives 122

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. It is still 100% family-owned -- now by the three elderly offspring of Forrest Mars Sr.,

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2013

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In a recent study, Forrester Research reported “close to 15 million new jobs will be created in the US alone over the next decade as a result of automation and smart machines.” Herman Trend Alerts are written by Joyce Gioia, a Strategic Business Futurist, Certified Management Consultant, author, and professional speaker.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The questions I get from management about social applications are varied. How do you manage all this? How can we prove to management that all these social applications are paying off? Crucially, the right strategy here is not to put all the social efforts under one manager.

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Technology Management Forrester Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Contrary to what these findings — and Forrester’s prediction that “1 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Digital natives who grew up with the Internet and smartphones have transformed the way B2B buyers research purchases, qualify vendors and make purchases—changing the rules of the game for marketers and product managers. Contacting a salesperson occurs later in the typical purchase process, and sometimes not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Because management and professional services have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, Sally thought her job and location were reasonably safe. John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

An early mover was Forrester Research, which appointed Steve Peltzman CBTO in 2011. While Peltzman acknowledges that technology management still has to focus on classic IT issues, such as determining which systems are critical, managing security, and deploying technology, he does not see these functions constituting his primary role.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Over the past five years, we have followed the rise of customer experience efforts from small outposts to central players in executing company strategies, especially as firms have faced growing challenges in maintaining meaningful differentiation based on product innovation alone. They have power and influence resources.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

That boss was Admiral Forrest Faison, and he was Commander, Navy Medicine West (NMW). They’ll be more engaged, more productive, and more trustful of you as a leader. While it’s easy to be respectful when all is going well, the test will come when adversity strikes. Be proactive. Find reasons to recognize your employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Jacqueline Reses, a former private equity investor who became Yahoo’s CHRO, said, “We should drive HR like a product organization that finds the most critical use cases of our customers and then builds products to solve those needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

This idea is supported by Forrester Research, which found that 65% of high-level decision makers give their business to the company that creates the "buying vision," versus 35% who acknowledge putting candidates through a fair-and-square "bake-off." The product — in this case, the tornado siren — doesn't create the reaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

In a recent Unify survey of knowledge workers, 79% of respondents reported working always or frequently in virtual teams, but only 44% found virtual communication as productive as face-to-face communication. I’m seeing a new generation of technology emerge that can make dispersed teams more productive than collocated teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

According to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Workforce Recontact Survey 2017 , just 30% of global information workers at healthcare providers indicated they’ve received training on how to protect workplace data, and only 38% are even aware of their company’s security policies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In 2005, Amazon introduced its Prime service, which provides members with unlimited “free” two-day delivery (as well as discounted overnight delivery) on eligible products for $79 a year. Amazon’s challenge provides two key pricing lessons to all managers. First, understand and respect that customers have different needs.

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Library Price Forrester Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Forrester Research predicts that by 2012 half of all consumer purchases will be either transacted online or digitally driven in some way — influenced by search, social media, or emerging digital platforms like location-based services and digitally augmented store environments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update. You manage what you measure. These firms track inventory, productivity, utilization, and other traditional Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). But it is still worth doing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

But few have measures or even have accountable managers in place for their social media investments, and only 7% say their organizations “understand the exact value at stake from digital.” It spurs productivity, and productivity — not just tweets and selfies — is what spurs growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Managers at the aerospace manufacturer wanted to make faster decisions for one of their big clients — NASA — by finding alternatives to the high volume of meetings and cumbersome spreadsheets used for tracking projects. If a company cuts wait times in half, it can gain more than $370,000 annually in productive time across a 25-person team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

James McQuivey, principal analyst and vice president at Forrester, suggested that executives should sit up and pay attention to HoloLens. As an executive, you care about this because in Forrester’s Technographics survey data, there are 7.2 This one comes to mind.). Is there any reason for them to pay attention to HoloLens?

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