We view organizations as dynamic, complex systems -- with people as their most critical asset. People strategy is a critical element, and sometimes the driver, of successful corporate strategies. We help transform leaders, teams and organizations. We align organizational design with strategy. We examine the distribution of decision rights and the impact of incentives on the type and quality of decisions the organization is making. We help organizations manage their corporate center and overhead costs. We identify, map, and diagnose internal and external networks of collaboration. And we design corporate governance systems to improve board effectiveness and manage risk. Recent work has included assisting firms with new organizational designs prompted by trends in new technologies, offshoring, globalization, and the rising demands of top talent.
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That big change effort you are contemplating is twice as likely to fail as it is to succeed.
Japan is poised on the brink of a major economic revival. Are you prepared to meet the challenge? This book examines the most successful companies in Japan today - and reveals the powerful strategies based on ancient Japanese philosophy that have reinvigorated their businesses.
Eamonn Kelly’s Powerful Times asserts that competitive nations operating in a global economy are essentially engaged in learning races, and the society that can most rapidly adapt its skills, knowledge, and capacities to a changing world wins.
The success and growth of organizations depend today, as they always have, on navigating the landscape of risks.
An analysis of the barriers to change in philanthropy and why the current moment holds new possibility for improving the field.
A conceptual framework to help corporate foundations understand the array of options that are available for their giving, and how uncertainties in the world around their companies might influence their choices.
In these uncertain, complex, and volatile times, risk seems to be shifting and accelerating.
Scenario thinking is a tool for motivating people to challenge the status quo, or get better at doing so.
Management scholar Chris Argyris tackles an important problem in Reasons and Rationalizations: the pervasiveness of defensive reasoning prevents people in organizations from understanding when and why they are skillfully incompetent.