N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

By tapping into their expertise, organizations can benefit from fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and best practices that can drive business success. They drive innovation, inspire teams, and navigate challenges with finesse. Another significant benefit of consulting is the objective viewpoint that consultants offer.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As downsizing, restructuring and delayering took hold in the late 1980’s, old ladders became largely inaccessible. Beverly Kaye founded Career Systems International (CSI) more than thirty years ago, and it has become a global leader in developing and delivering innovative, action-based talent management solutions.

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Restructuring Career Human Resources Globalization 173

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To meet the moment, this article argues that organizations may need to change the way they operate to innovate. Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Competitive Advantage Restructuring Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

Moreover, 32% of departments in tech companies and others are redesigning functions using AI to streamline for versatility and figuring out how to best integrate the experiences gathered from worker feedback and innovation.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

“There are a lot of clinicians who are looking for ways to put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.”. New skills.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

” In culture development efforts, leaders will strongly declare their commitment to core values like safety, quality, service, engagement, teamwork, integrity, innovation, and the like. Integration — day-to-day operating decisions are delegated to increasingly autonomous frontline teams.

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Commitment Teamwork Restructuring Morale 69

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

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Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 66

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

“An alternative response could be to increase advertising spending to compensate for the decreased effectiveness and to consider such higher ad spending in the layoff country as a restructuring cost.” ” .

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Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 102

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. With this statistic at the back of your mind, one essential step to take is to restructure your company’s money management procedures. Be receptive to innovative ideas. Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team.

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Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 79

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

Draft a provocative vision and values The operative word here being, “ provocative.” You can elevate energy levels by restructuring work flow to allow mental breaks during the day, encouraging a supportive and social environment, and amplifying the enthusiasm and excitement surrounding your team’s accomplishments.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. Stefan Ries: The old days of HR are over.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? More and more, the critical role of chief brand custodian is relegated to middle managers who either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. I’m not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. Some do it well.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation. Through no fault of their own, they either lack the experience, the clout or the motivation to drive innovation into the brands they manage. But why does brand building have to take a back seat during this era of corporate change?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows. This free application creator is an asset for any individual or business looking to communicate and innovate with the latest trend in technology.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. About the Authors.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. IT departments need to move into leading roles in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive.

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Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. “It’s about helping customers avoid having to make yet another choice.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? 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? Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

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