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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Creating a positive organizational climate during an economic downturn

Tom Atkinson, Director of Customer Research I interviewed Jim Simmons (a pseudonym) recently.  A sales executive for a leading provider of health insurance plans, he is responsible for leading a sales force of independent agents in New England who offer health coverage to employees of companies through the companies themselves.  A particularly challenging aspect of [...]

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Capacity Theory

By André Alphonso, Managing Director, Forum India Len Evans was a famous and highly regarded winemaker in Australia.  In 1995 I participated in one of his wine appreciation classes.  During the course of the evening he got his students laughing with his “capacity theory”:  He would open and drink one bottle of wine every day, or [...]

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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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