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Will Your Agency Stumble or Thrive Through Change? 

Federal leaders: The halls of your agencies are thick with uncertainty right now. While wariness is natural, how your organization emerges from this period - stumbling or thriving - depends entirely on the groundwork you lay today. Here are three proven lessons from agencies that turned transitions into opportunities.

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Operationalizing Enterprise, Initiative, and Program Innovation in Federal

There’s a strong push for innovation within the federal government, driven not only by desire but also by mandate. The success of these efforts relies on a systematic approach to planning and implementing change, encompassing phases like strategy development, prioritization, defining necessary changes, enabling change, and ongoing governance. This approach is critical for achieving impactful and sustainable innovation in federal programs and initiatives.

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Post-Pandemic: Acting with Purpose

By deepening our understanding of and anticipating what’s happening within our markets, we can tap into new sources of differentiation that account for the fact that the world has changed and that thriving in that post-Pandemic world isn’t simply business as usual or business as it was.

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Transforming from Within

Traditional approaches to Transformation, with an over-reliance on consultants, fail to generate the best outcomes …

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Why Your Strategy is Going to Fail

Outside of companies' Strategic Planning units, planning season is usually met with a collective groan.  Why?  Despite the snazzy charts they include  ...

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The Only Constant is Change

Wayne Gretzky, the hockey great, famously said: "skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."  Wise advise for business  ...

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