Change-alytics: Reengineering your business with analytics

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|November 9, 2011

I started working with a large financial services customer recently that’s implementing an enterprise-level strategic analytic application. If they’re successful, these analytics will be a game changer for this organization. Unfortunately, I can’t discuss what they’re implementing, but the analytics enable a key business strategy, and this initiative has the [...]

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The impetus for change leadership: Check the insularity at the door & learn to lead with an outward facing agenda (conclusion)

Russ Cobb
Russ Cobb|November 4, 2011

Building and leading a team is one of the most challenging aspects of business life. To build a team from different individuals requires a lot of effort since it’s sometimes a long distance between Storming and Performing. And that effort to build an esprit de corps requires a certain amount [...]

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Is manufacturing dead in America?

Michael Newkirk
Michael Newkirk|October 28, 2011

I was privileged to attend the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Board of Directors meeting in Washington D.C. recently. Attended by some 300 senior executives of American Manufacturing companies, it was like a who’s-who in brand names anyone would recognize. NAM is a very big influencer of public policy on [...]

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The poop on change management

Kelly Levoyer
Kelly Levoyer|October 26, 2011

Kevin Hofer, Director of Inventory Management for Sears Holdings, wins the award for best presentation analogy at The Premier Business Leadership Series. He compared the change management around Sears Holdings’ implementation of a merchandise planning system to his process for how he successfully potty trained his 18-month-old son…in one day. [...]

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The impetus for change leadership: Rigidity to flexibility (part 3)

Russ Cobb
Russ Cobb|October 11, 2011

I have a particular issue with the rigid leadership style – not just because it can cost the organization in lost opportunities, but also because it is like a fast-moving virus that can infect quite a few of the people who work for a rigid leader. After all, rigid leaders [...]

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The impetus for change: Why soft knowledge matters just as much as the hard stuff (part 2)

Russ Cobb
Russ Cobb|September 27, 2011

In my last blog post, I highlighted the importance of competence, flexibility, and a team orientation as key building blocks of change leadership. These are fundamental for a leader to create the environment for positive change and to lead the organization in sustained effective action. It’s not easy to reach [...]

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The impetus for change leadership (part 1)

Russ Cobb
Russ Cobb|September 14, 2011

Change is hard. Let’s face it – we all have a comfort zone and moving out of it can be difficult to say the least. The change process is hard because it forces us to create and/or adjust to something that is different from our current – in effect, we [...]

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3 steps to value realization

Jonathan Hornby
Jonathan Hornby|August 20, 2010

Very interesting article on “The challenge of change” in the 3Q 2010 issue of sascom magazine. Renee Nocker, the director who leads the business analytics effort at CPG giant Kimberley-Clark Corp., shares her insights on value realization. Contrary to popular belief, technology is only one element of transformation. Surrounding the [...]

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