5 New Strategic Initiatives That Are Creating Business Impact Right Now

We asked our colleagues across Forum to share strategic initiatives that have a positive impact for clients. We see a gradual shift away from short-term focus on results, and a renewed emphasis on the implementation of strategic initiatives to take organizations forward.  Here are some examples: 1. Re-engage employees through focus on growth Clients are re-engaging [...]

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Going Fast in Resource Constrained Companies

For a recording of the North America and Europe Webinar, click here I recently co-hosted, along with my colleague Henry Frechette, a Forum webinar for North America & Europe entitled “The 10 Ways Fast Companies Accelerate Strategy Execution.”    The topic of Acceleration seems to be a hot button topic – participants had more questions [...]

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Strategic Speed in 140 Characters or Less

by Steve Barry  As text-messaging and Twitter slowly take over my life (and my thumbs), I’ve begun to appreciate writers who express themselves with the power of brevity.  I recently saw an example of their writing in one of the core tenets of a church near my house:    “In essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, [...]

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12 Signs of a Team That Delivers Quality With Speed

   By Tom Atkinson, Director, Customer Research  What’s the best way to achieve high-quality results when you’re under pressure to deliver quickly?  A recent Forum initiative provides some clues.  Forum’s leadership team took an innovative approach to identifying new business opportunities in today’s demanding economic environment:  It created five cross-functional teams and assigned each team [...]

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