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Wednesday, June 24th 2021

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Business Organization 5.0: What to expect

This week’s must read

The People Side of Business Transformation
Robert Amberg: This is Strategy That Works, where we discuss practical solutions to companies’ most complex challenges. I’m your host, Robert Amberg, Chief Marketing Officer at Jabian Consulting. Let’s dive in. Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast....

The biggest thing that Business transformation requires is much reflection by the leadership team itself—spending time with their team to talk through where we need to head, Having the data, setting the course, spending some time in the same room together. So how does a leader prepare for this?

This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Fred Jewell and Tracy Reznik, Jabian Consulting about the people side of business transformation.

 Fred Jewell and Tracy Reznik@Jabian Consulting

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Thought Leadership

The Ideal Span of Work Is A Myth: Companies Should Think Holistically
There are many myths about the ideal span of control, our answer is that there is no such thing as an ideal because it depends on the situation.

Spans of control are a function of several components. The name itself gives it away: spans of CONTROL. But it is about controlling work and decisions, and not controlling people. Deciding is part of a much more holistic design and decision-making process.

Peter Turgoose@ON THE MARK

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Distance working goes against creating “Intelligent Organizations”
The actual pandemic will have taught us the joys and challenges of distance-work, working from home, virtual meetings etc. And there is no question, in my mind, that this is absolutely necessary. It enables organisations to continue to work (and it is amazing how quickly we have adapted and

The pandemic and its share of remote working, working from home or virtual meetings, have allowed organizations to continue working despite the constraints. But working in a vacuum exclusively based on an overloaded agenda does not prevent moments of original reflection, innovation, and development of collective intelligence.

Didier Marlier@Enablers Network

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From Agile Delivery, to an Agile Organization | Management Solutions
“The only constant is change”. The concept embodied in this phrase, credited to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, has been particularly prevalent to many organizations’ strategy of creating an adaptable business model, i.e. a model that allows businesses to adapt to ever-changing circumstances and s…

Change strategy, change processes, change products: “The only constant is change.” In this perspective, companies must design and build minimally viable products quickly, and organizations must become agile. This concern seems to be shared by all industries. Are you?

@ Management Solutions

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TOWARDS BIO-INSPIRED AND EVOLVING ORGANIZATIONS
From the book “Braided Organizations” (Michel Zarka, Elena Kochanovskaya & William Pasmore) published by IAP on April 2019 Michel Zarka

Braided organizations are emerging to reinforce an important metamorphosis of organizations. The top could not mandate the mindset shifts described by the author and thus cascaded down the organization. Doing so would imply a negation of braids and lead to the classical vertical, self-centered ways of operating. How to move forward to create a braided organization and reap the associated benefits?

Michel Zarka@EIGHT ADVISORY

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This week’s Consulting News

Accenture Positioned as a Leader in Digital Strategy Consulting Services by the IDC MarketScape
Accenture has been named a leader in digital strategy consulting services in a new IDC MarketScape report.

| @BusinessWire

Mosaic Consulting Group Announces Plan to Acquire Westward Consulting
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jun 21, 2021--Mosaic Consulting Group, a long-time Ultimate Software partner focused on human capital management (HCM) support and service, announced today that they have entered into an acquisition agreement with Westward Consulting, a long-time Kronos partner focused on workforce…

| @Yahoo Finance

BDO names new financial services partner: Duncan Chandler
Professional services firm BDO has appointed Duncan Chandler to its national mergers and acquisitions team. Chandler brings more than 20 years of experience to the firm.

| @Consultancy.uk

IT consultancy Soltech expands into Florida
Soltech, an Atlanta-based IT staffing and consulting firm, has expanded into Florida with the launch of a new office in Key Largo. The office is the firm’s second physical location.

| @Consultancy.us

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Phanish Puranam, the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD, says there is no magic bullet in organization design. But there are validated tools and principles that organizations of any size can adopt to work more effectively.

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