We attempt to distill the lessons from two truly ambitious projects—NASA’s Apollo program and Pfizer’s Lightspeed project—and show how, to succeed, projects and organizations must resolve the tensions between ingenuity and control.
Instead of defaulting to the standard change management methods, leaders should adopt strategies of change that respond appropriately to the specific characteristics of their change context.
Keep resilience on the transformation agenda. Change programs that prioritize growth, debt reduction, and operational flexibility realize the full value of resilience and build advantage for the next crisis.
Multiple traps can derail a digital transformation. Here’s how to avoid them and hold your ground in this age of technological upheaval.
There’s no recipe to follow when it comes to transformation. But data and analytics make it possible to decode what works, and emerging science offers lessons that can help business leaders turn change into an opportunity.
Using advanced analytics, we identified a set of deal characteristics and managerial actions that significantly improve the odds of success of turnaround M&As.
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