Keeping the Edge

The RENEWAL CYCLE is a positive, creative, growth oriented force in our lives. If you are going through a change, if you feel stuck, if you're not sure of your next direction this article is for you. You will learn about the process and with that, you can regain balance and get excited about your next stage in life.

What's the Big ID?

In the industry for your products and services, there may be many existing elements like symbols, colors, or other visual images that are very familiar to the people who buy and use the appropriate products and services. Your mission is to find those elements, adopt them within your identity, and become an integral part of the community you to intend to serve.

Are Your Employees Aligned With Your Brand?

Do your employees behave toward your customers the way you would expect them to? Getting your employees aligned with your brand will empower them to make continuous improvements that will benefit your company as it strives to deliver that unique and best-in-class customer experience.

How to Create a Business Culture (in Seven Difficult Steps)

Many companies treat organizational culture as if it were a mysterious, organic process that can't be managed or even analyzed. This couldn't be further from the truth: any organization can decide what kind of culture they want to have, then plan how to evolve into that culture; the techniques have been around since the 1950's, but no one things to use them in the corporate world. This doesn't mean that changing a culture is easy - people and cultures are resistent to change (even beneficial change) and you have to be patient and persevering and flexible; but in the end you can create exactly the organizational culture that you are looking for.

Change Management Practices To Directly Impact Your Bottom-Line

Most companies lose 45% to 50% of their customers every five years, winning new customers can be up to 20 times more expensive than retaining existing customers. Organizations need to change to meet new business challenges. They need to know what makes customers loyal. AG can help ask the right questions and devise techniques to obtain the right answers. Here are some Change Management best practices from AG.

Time for Change Management; Franchisees Too Quick to Blame Franchisors for Their Own Failures

In reviewing the complaints of franchisees over the last 20-years we see some similarities to the over all society as a whole. Franchisees are often too quick to Blame their Franchisors for their Own Failures, insufficient capital and poor use of business acumen.

Ten Things You Should Focus on to Transform Your Finance Function

Are you dealing with manual processes, inadequate technology and increasing demands from the organization? Need to develop strategies for shared services, outsourcing and performance management?

Change From Science - Focus on the Stakeholders

There are two main directions of change. The first is about resistance, the energy that is spend to keep a change from influencing you, of your organization. The other is the promotion of change. This is exactly the opposite direction. In both cases you need to analyse the stakeholders for understanding why the change is resisted (in the first case) or why it is proposed (the second case). The recent Pluto statement -- about redefining the definition of a planet - - is a typical example of the second case...

When Organizational Capital is Being Drained it is Time for Change Management

Efficient teams work well together and when they do you can see the value in their force multiplier affect. You can see it in special teams in Championship Football Games, you hear about with Navy Seal Teams and you can certainly feel it in America’s Corporate Board Rooms.

Change Management and Business Risk Taking

Often there are times in business when corporate managers and executives need a little shake up and that means to shed the dead weight that is not up to the performance standards that are required to run the company efficiently. When this happens it is of the utmost important to get rid of those executives or corporate managers who cannot cut the mustard.

Change Management and the Affects on Productivity

One of the biggest concerns and the reason why so many consultants and MBA business schools study change management is because it directly affects the productivity of the company and the efficiency and the use of the organizational capital, which has been already established at the management levels.

Change Management Necessary when It is Time for Change

Too often corporate boards of directors fear change management because they fear shaking things up, which might make things worse. However when it is time for a change; change management is necessary and often it will be for the better. It would be hard to debate that change management in corporations does cause stress on the executive teams and often, temporary chaos.

Change Management and Why You Need to Understand It

In the fast-paced corporate environment change management is something that occurs even faster than it ever has before and this is why you corporate executives need to understand change management better. Too often we find in corporate organizations a loss of efficiency when one team member is moved to another department or fired.