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03.19.07  Ron Ashkenas, Patrice Murphy, Andrew Shapiro

Rapid Results!: A Chapter from "The Change Handbook"

Learn how companies and governments used Rapid Results projects to build confidence as well as the capacity to manage change.

 

Categories: Rapid Results

12.04.06  Claudio Avila Tobias

Aprender de los resultados rapidos (English Translation)

English translation of Learning from Rapid Results, the original HBR article written in Spanish for the Harvard Business Review Latin American Edition, December 2006.

 

Categories: Rapid Results, Harvard Business Review

10.02.06  Robert Schaffer

Rapid Results: Easier to Achieve Than the Gurus Will Tell You

If you have to improve productivity significantly, lower costs, shift market focus or make other major changes in your company, cheer up: it can be done much more easily than you probably believe it can.

 

Categories: Rapid Results

04.03.06  Wes Siegal, Evan Smith

From Pilot Projects to Business Strategy: How to Turn Innovation Into Growth

Many significant organizational endeavors begin with pilot projects. In this article, you'll learn how to maximize the success of pilot projects across the entire organization.

 

Categories: Strategy Execution, Innovation, Organic Growth, Rapid Results

10.05.05  Robert Schaffer, Wes Siegal

Rapid Results: Unlocking the Door to Major Change

Consultants frequently are the victims of this dilemma: the greater the potential value of their recommendations, the greater the changes that will be required by people in the client organization.

 

Categories: Innovation, Rapid Results

10.05.05  Ron Ashkenas, Nadim Matta, Robert Schaffer

Unleashing Implementation Capacity in Developing Countries

Developmental goals in public health, education, agriculture, and economics can all be attacked via Rapid Results initiatives—which produce immediate results and build implementation capability. Through these initiatives, the “target population” ceases to be a targ…

 

Categories: Innovation, Rapid Results

10.05.05  Ron Ashkenas, Robert Schaffer

Start with Results, Not Preparations

Rapid Results projects are not an alternative to longer-term vision and strategic management. Rather they are a necessary, complementary element in major strategic change efforts.

 

Categories: Organic Growth, Rapid Results, Operational Excellence

10.05.05  Ron Ashkenas, Robert Schaffer

Make Acquisitions and Mergers Succeed

Few changes that managers have to carry out are as complex and challenging as mergers and acquisitions. If the master plan is linked to and supported by many small-scale, rapid-cycle projects, the weaknesses inherent in large-scale changes can be abated.

 

Categories: Acquisition Integration, Rapid Results

10.05.05  Ron Ashkenas, Robert Schaffer

Build Your Own Unique Transformation Process

While organizations can certainly benefit from the accumulated experience of others, the most successful approach is for each organization to create a unique change process that works best for itself. In this chapter we will sketch a framework by which management t…

 

Categories: Strategy Execution, Rapid Results, Operational Excellence

10.05.05  Ron Ashkenas, Robert Schaffer

Develop Leaders Through Results Achievement

This chapter urges those responsible for developing leaders to ask managers to strive for and achieve tangible results and shows how these results-driven experiences can be designed into formal training programs as well.

 

Categories: Rapid Results, Executive Alignment and Coaching, Leadership Development
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