Organisational Change and Consultancy
Transforming your partnership with the business
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How IT functions can improve their partnering with the business.
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Accelerating response to climate change
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In recent months we’ve conducted primary research and hosted a webinar “Will business pressures torpedo a low carbon strategy?” discussing these points. With Alexander Ballard we are providing a framework to rapidly change organisations’ response to climate change. Fiona Ellis and Danny Chesterman report...
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Climate PACT
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How able are you now to implement climate change carbon reductions effectively across your business?
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Corporate ethics - are you the next Enron?
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The Corporate Ethics Questionnaire: How does your company compare?
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Cost reductions without tears: making savings without losing performance
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With the UK elections over, leaders of public service organisations up and down the country have drawn up plans for how they will achieve the radical savings needed without a breakdown of services. They are looking at new service delivery models, ‘e’ enablement, and a host of ‘transformatory changes’.
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CSR - Milton Friedman was right
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Of the hundreds of thousands of words written about Corporate Social Responsibility, one of the earliest quotations is one of the most persistent - the statement by the late economist Milton Friedman that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”
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Cultural integration in mergers and acquisitions
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In good times mergers and acquisitions can happen at a more leisurely pace with every aspect of the operation carefully scrutinised. Today, private sector organisations are often forced to restructure and integrate operations fast, whether a major financial services organisation is merged or a hi-tech start-up is acquired.
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The role of HR in a multinational organisation
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Bath Consultancy Group has developed the HR Transformation model to help understand the kinds of contribution HR is making to the business. To be a Strategic Partner, HR leaders need to be engaging others on the future issues and opportunities, which face the business. They need to be facilitating the process and raising the challenge of how to deal with these.
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Supporting organisations towards a low carbon economy
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While there has been increasing recognition of CSR and sustainability for organisations, the economic downturn has forced certain issues to the fore. Energy security and climate change are now major strategic issues that need to be urgently addressed. We are in a 20% world with President Obama backing the need for 80% carbon reductions.
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The successful integration of companies, departments and teams
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In the public, private, and third sectors organisations are merging and consolidating in the hope that they can achieve greater efficiencies, strategic advantage and enhanced customer service. But evidence shows that only 25% of mergers and acquisitions succeed in delivering these aspirations... with failure to integrate working cultures most often cited as the main reason.
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Understanding systems - �we take things so personally�
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My experience of working in organisations, large and small, is that, as Barry Oshry repeatedly says, “Stuff happens!” The stuff that happens often drives me to take it personally and to react by explaining things with a story based upon my assumptions of why the person or team did it. My reactivity though is predictable.
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War for talent rages in the city
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In 2010 we interviewed 34 senior leaders of UK banks. This was Bath Consultancy Group’s second inquiry and we wanted to investigate whether the financial crisis had led not only to new strategies being implemented but also whether banks had taken the opportunity to change both their approach to leadership and the embedded culture within their organisations.
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What are the capabilities needed as a HR strategic partner?
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Becoming a business partner sounds easy but in practice demands a shift in mindset and capability...
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Changing The Way We Change
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Changing the way people think and behave is, in our experience, often put in the ‘too difficult’ box. None more so than when an organisation needs to undertake radical and deep reaching change, something that’s top of mind in the public sector at the moment.
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Future Global Trends
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Organisations across the world are facing many challenges. As consultants we are privileged to work in different organisations in different sectors that bring different issues and perspectives. We have a collective wisdom and in this paper we present what we see organisations grappling with in the forthcoming years.
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Managing Transition
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As mergers and acquisitions increase and organisations constantly realign to meet changing business needs, the cost of transition can be too high a price for businesses, teams and individuals.
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UK Colleges Transform Leadership in OD Project
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How do you take a further education college that is an average performer and mobilise the impetus, capacity and the desire to transform itself into a centre of excellence? This is the challenge that Lynne Sedgmore, Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) gave to Bath Consultancy Group.
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Culture Analysis
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Beneath the surface of everyday organisational life there are powerful forces shaping and constraining behaviour: the force of tradition, views and values about how things “should be done”, the unspoken prioritisation of different activities together with beliefs about how to deal with people.
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Organisational Healthcheck for Human Due Diligence
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In our experience, the focus on structures and processes often means that the human side is often overlooked during Due Diligence. We have developed a Human Due Diligence Organisational Healthcheck so that executives and HR can assess whether they are doing enough. The health check is based on several years of documented research and links directly with a model for ensuring success.
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Making the move to HR business partnering really work
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In the private and public sector, pressure for organisations to perform has never been higher, and HR has a key role to play in both managing the cost of the people in the business and enabling line managers and leaders to engage and align them in the most effective manner.
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The benefits of partnership for OD and HR
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As HR becomes more strategic, there is a potential overlap in roles and skill sets with OD. Rather than battle it out, Fiona Ellis, a director of the Bath Consultancy Group, argues that the two should work in partnership. She draws on the experiences of OD and HR professionals in a range of organizations to explore the nature of this evolving relationship.
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