Insights on Implementation
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How to implement transformations for long-term impact
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When it comes to implementing large-scale organizational change, the most successful organizations commit themselves fully to...
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What’s your superpower? How companies can build an institutional capability to achieve competitive advantage
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One capability often sets leading companies apart from the rest. Here’s how to build yours.
Transformations
Podcast - McKinsey Quarterly
Disruption, friction, and change: The hallmarks of a true transformation
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A company transformation is a holistic, top-priority endeavor that requires aggressive focus from the management team to reach the full potential of a business.
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A roadmap for a digital transformation
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No insurance company has yet completed a digital transformation—one that fully harnesses the power of digital technology to rethink every aspect of the organization. But a number of carriers are making remarkable progress, indicating the direction others should take.
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Keeping transformations on target
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Analysis of high-stakes transformations reveals a few pragmatic lessons that increase the odds of meeting the organization’s objectives.
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Sustaining the momentum of a transformation
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Five elements can keep bad habits from reasserting themselves.
Capability Building
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Bringing out the best in people
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Providing good service has never been easy. Meeting rising customer expectations requires companies focus on building the capabilities...
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Experiential learning: What’s missing in most change programs
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Successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages the intimate link between...
Change Management
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Changing change management
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Research tells us that most change efforts fail. Yet change methodologies are stuck in a predigital era. It’s high time...
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The four building blocks of change
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Four key actions influence employee mind-sets and behavior. Here’s why they matter.
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The irrational side of change management
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Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights...
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Executive quick take: A guide to implementing marketing-and-sales transformations that unlock sustainable growth
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Above-market growth in today’s competitive environment means becoming more flexible and agile and adopting multiple marketing...
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How to implement and sustain organizational change
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The fundamentals of change implementation are crucial for not only top-level executives but also frontline managers who are involved...
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How the implementation of organizational change is evolving
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Digital solutions pose new and unique challenges to the implementation of major change efforts. But the capabilities that support...
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Digital transformation: Raising supply-chain performance to new levels
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Combining digital applications with operational changes helps yield significant performance improvements that stand the test...
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Continuous improvement—make good management every leader’s daily habit
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Continuous improvement at scale—across a whole enterprise—requires management discipline at scale. At a few organizations,...
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Sales support: How to get it just right
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The “Goldilocks quandary” of sales support: What level is just right to drive the most sales and growth?