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The Advisor’s Corner – When Should Consultants Be Used?
Question: We’ve brought in a number of high priced consultants to perform a business case analysis. In hind sight, it appears we could have done the same work with internal resources. Why then did we hire these costly advisors? StrategyDriven Response: There are many reasons for hiring consultants. One or more of these likely applied [...]
Read moreThe Advisor’s Corner – If I Don’t Measure, Can I Manage?
Question: There are several axioms regarding measurement such as: What gets measured gets done. What gets measured and rewarded gets done well. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. What gets measured gets managed. Is it really true that if something is not measured it is not being managed? Not everything can be measured simply [...]
Read moreThe Advisor’s Corner – Why Is My Organization’s Vision Unclear To Employees?
Question: My subordinates frequently asked for opportunities to speak with our business unit’s vice president in order to gain a sense of what she sees as the organization’s overall vision and what she feels is going well and what could be improved upon. Since the company’s vision is commonly held by all members of the [...]
Read moreThe Advisor’s Corner – How Do You Sell a Major Change?
Question: Feedback indicates my company’s current leadership training program, though inexpensive, yields little to no value. My research shows that an alternative training program has produced superior, measurable results at other organizations. How should I go about selling my manager and the organization on the need to change from our current training program to this [...]
Read moreThe Advisor’s Corner – Guaranteed Future?
Question: Can a good strategy define a company’s future? StrategyDriven Response: Strategic certainty does not exist. Organizations should, however, leverage a good strategy to establish the vision toward which executives and managers focus employee efforts. Vision combined with excellent execution that reinforces desired behaviors generates a high degree of organizational alignment and accountability that in [...]
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