by Stephen Peele | Feb 15, 2014 | Change Management, Culture
The road to sustainable change in corporate culture is littered with the wrecks of so many valiant attempts. Studies have indicated that no matter the organizational level or type of company, change programs have very low success rates. The fact is that 70% of change...
by Richard Spoon | Feb 10, 2014 | Sales, Strategy & OGSM
Business Situation Gold’n Plump has been an innovator in the production and marketing of premium chicken products for more than 80 years. However, in spite of its reputation for unsurpassed quality in the upper Midwest market, the family-owned and operated...
by Richard Spoon | Feb 9, 2014 | Change Management, Culture, Leadership, Organization Design, Talent Management
There’s an irony that comes with the scarcity mindset. When we see the world through the eyes of scarcity, we extract, consume, hoard or pillage more than we actually need — and we begin to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of actual scarcity on our planet. From your...
by Richard Spoon | Feb 1, 2014 | Strategy & OGSM
Back when the modern technology game started, the vast majority of costs to companies went to hardware and communications, with software and people making up only a small portion of the total. These days, however, the majority of costs (80 percent according to...
by Jesse Edelman | Jan 11, 2014 | Culture, Leadership
Part 1 of a 2 part series Generation Y, an age group some 70 million people strong, is quickly redefining the workplace. As we think about “Gen Y’ers” we need to understand how they think, learn and become motivated because as employers, we need to adapt our approach...
by ArchPoint | Jan 10, 2014 | Strategy & OGSM
ArchPoint Consulting has opened a London-based office to handle the company’s growing business in Europe. The office will be headed by Blair King, a London consultant and program manager who has been in the business for nearly 20 years. In the past year, ArchPoint has...
by ArchPoint | Jan 9, 2014 | Leadership
WHAT IS THE ONE MISTAKE YOU WITNESS LEADERS MAKING MOST FREQUENTLY? Probably the one I have made over and over again in my own career—thinking that I need to have all the answers. WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF BUSINESS LEADERS TODAY? One of the...
by ArchPoint | Jan 9, 2014 | Change Management, Leadership, Organization Design
The Team Renaissance Assessment provides an arena for corporate and higher ed teams to boost productivity. Collecting and using data to create a place to start conversations around team dynamics removes some of the inherent emotion that goes along with those...
by Renee Camplese | Jan 5, 2014 | Commercial & Customers, Customers
Can a customer relationship be too good? Do your customers know you for doing one thing really well? How much energy and effort do your salespeople put into keeping even established customers informed of your full line of products? There’s a risk that develops over...
by ArchPoint | Jan 5, 2014 | Leadership, Strategy & OGSM
It’s that time of year again when we have made New Year’s resolutions and absolutely, positively (“this time I’m really doing it”) commit to doing things or behaving differently in the upcoming year. The success of your organizational goals can often be helped or...
