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Tracking strategic success with Measures (the M in OGSM)
This article is the last in a series focusing on each component of the OGSM framework. The goal is to break down the framework, sharing the purpose and development process of each element. We hope providing a deep dive into the functionality of the framework will...
5 Steps to rock-solid Strategies (the S in OGSM)
OGSM Series: The S This article is the third in a series focusing on each component of the OGSM framework. The goal is to break down the framework, sharing the purpose and development process of each element. We hope providing a deep dive into the functionality of the...
The art of goal-setting (the G in OGSM)
OGSM Series: The G This article is the second in a series focusing on each component of the OGSM framework. The goal is to break down the framework, sharing the purpose and development process of each element. We hope providing a deep dive into the functionality of...
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Leading a change effort? Talk to your employees
We've all been through it before. Corporate Communications sends a company-wide calendar tap for a meeting in thirty minutes and everyone starts to speculate. Layoffs? CEO resignation? Company being sold? In a matter of seconds, a frenzy ensues, the gossip starts and...
Google research validates ArchPoint Team Model
It has been and still is a common belief that great people beget great teams – if you want a team to achieve greatness, you must begin with greatness at the individual level. Many companies hold this belief to be true and build their teams based upon it – including up...
Seek employee engagement, not loyalty
When people talk about loyalty in the workplace, it evokes images of a bygone era. The worker of 1950 for example, put in his (not her) eight hours a day, got a ham from the boss every Thanksgiving, could count on a promotion after hitting the 10-year mark, and a...
The retail game has changed: Has your brand strategy?
Editor’s note: In May, we published an article on the in-store consumer experience, explaining the myriad of factors that come into play when a consumer enters a store and the effect those factors have on purchase decisions. Reader response to the piece prompted a lot...
Four ways to stop wasting time
Any good business leader knows policies are essential to effectively manage resources. There are policies and quotas for hiring new people, protocols and limits to making large capital investments, spending limits that vary by management level – the list goes on. But...
Are you confusing being bigger with being better?
I’ve had 20 years of experience with large organizations, both from the inside (as an employee) and from the outside (as a third-party consultant). I’ll admit I often find myself jealous of the economies of scale and resource-rich environment enjoyed by large...
Get back on course: 4 strategy reboot tactics
Way back in 1492, Christopher Columbus left Spain, embarking on a path to Asia that few, if any, had traveled before. But barely a month into his voyage, Columbus and his crew had to make an extended stop in the Canary Islands for more than five weeks to repair, refit...
Don’t shortchange the in-store experience
The consumer path to purchase is traditionally depicted by a purchase funnel, a model beginning with brand “Awareness” and (hopefully) ending with a “Conversion” or purchase transaction. Businesses need to move shoppers through this funnel to fuel growth. A company...
5 Essentials to Making Your Organization Design Work
Last year we published an article on the essentials to effective organization design, focused on increasing the probability that a new organization design would support the execution of an organization’s goals. Of course, you followed our approach and implemented an...
5 Essentials to Effective Organization Design
Is your organization suffering from low productivity? Do you have high employee turnover? Are communication breakdowns experienced on a regular basis? Do growth objectives seem unattainable? If you have answered “yes” to any of the above questions, the diagnosis to...