Harvard Business Press’ Publicity Manager, Julie Devoll, recently interviewed the team behind the research and writing of Strategic Speed. The interview covers the team’s adventures and even their embarrassing misadventures, including one “good idea gone wrong” when the team tried to find a Chinese word for Speed.
Companies that focus on building a positive organizational climate as part of their competitive strategy are continuing to exceed customer expectations, maintain employee productivity, and surpass their competition.
In this latest podcast from Forum we interview Teresa Dalsager, VP of Training at Archstone, about the power of creating a customer-centred climate. Archstone recently significantly increased their employee engagement and customer satisfaction with its Commitment to GREAT programme.
Did a breakdown in clarity and unity across multicultural teams contribute to Toyota's quality problems? This question is explored in our final podcast exploring the factors behind Toyota’s quality crisis.
This is the final podcast in this series that discusses the overlapping issues of speed of strategy execution, quality, and culture with these three business leaders: Jun Kurihara (Harvard Kennedy School), Dave Eaton (Aperian Global), and Dr. Edwin Boswell (Forum Corporation). View the transcript.
In this webinar co-authors of the book Strategic Speed: Mobilize People. Accelerate Execution, Jocelyn Davis and Ed Boswell, discuss the keys to accelerating strategy, primary speed traps to avoid, 4 leadership practices which drive Strategic Speed and how to take a 'pulse check' on your own speed.
In the Asia-Pacific version of this webinar co-authors of the book Strategic Speed: Mobilize People. Accelerate Execution, Jocelyn Davis and Ed Boswell, discuss the keys to accelerating strategy, primary speed traps to avoid, 4 leadership practices which drive Strategic Speed and how to take a 'pulse check' on your own speed. They share local examples of companies demonstrating strategic speed.
The opportunities for learning have been transformed by web 2.0. Applied correctly, these tools can transform the results your organization achieves through learning. If you missed thjis webinar you can listen to the recording anytime.
Discover how powerful Web 2.0 tools can improve the effectiveness of learning in your organization and explore the most effective learning methods for driving action and results while meeting the needs of today's learners. Plus, hear how Telstra Business Learning have been employing advanced workplace learning techniques.
Transitions abound; it seems that if your role is not changing, your organization is. If you missed our recent webinar on Leading Through Transitions you can catch up anytime.
Discover the seven things that slow transitions down, as well as accelerate transitions, with real-life examples from leaders at Sherwin-Williams.
This is the second podcast in a series of four in which the topics of speed, quality, and culture as it relates to Toyota’s recent quality issues are discussed with these three business leaders: Jun Kurihara (Harvard Kennedy School), Dave Eaton (Aperian Global), and Dr. Edwin Boswell (Forum Corporation). View the transcript.
Speed creates business success. However, when not properly executed, speed can derail organizations. Listen to this first podcast--part of a four-part podcast series-- that discusses the overlapping issues of speed of strategy execution, quality, and culture with these three business leaders: Jun Kurihara (Harvard Kennedy School), Dave Eaton (Aperian Global), and Dr. Edwin Boswell (Forum Corporation). View the transcript.
Focusing on your people and mobilizing them to embrace and accelerate business strategy is the essential driver for achieving growth and performance objectives. Achieving true Strategic Speed is not about 'going faster,' but comes from reducing time to value and increasing value over time.
In this podcast Jocelyn Davis, Executive Vice President, discusses the key findings from our global research on how leading companies execute their strategies more quickly and successfully. This research was the basis for the book, Strategic Speed: Mobilise People, Accelerate Execution authored by Forum and being published in June 2010 by Harvard Business Press.
Research and experience with our clients show there is a direct correlation between organizational climate and financial results, including sales, revenue growth, efficiency and profitability. Moreover, organizational climate represents one third of the factors that influence the success of any organisation. In other words, companies that build a positive organizational climate as part of their competitive strategy have a significantly better chance of positioning themselves for sustained growth, talent retention and accelerating results.
"How can we quickly execute strategy while staying agile to changes in our changing and interconnected marketplace?" This could very well be the business question of our time. We interviewed Bob Johansen, a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future, for his thoughts on the future business environment and the requisite leadership practices. View the condensed interview.
Cultures across the world have different takes on how quickly a leader, like Toyota's, should respond to a crises. Listen to this third podcast-part of a four-part podcast, that discusses the overlapping issues of speed of strategy execution, quality, and culture with these three business leaders: Jun Kurihara (Harvard Kennedy School), Dave Eaton (Aperian Global), and Dr. Edwin Boswell (Forum Corporation). View the transcript.
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