Atanu Chaudhuri, Craig Giffi, Kumar Kandaswami, Shalabh Kumar Singh
While companies assume there is necessarily a trade-off between efficiency and responsiveness in a constrained environment, research shows that only those organizations operating near the performance frontier (the optimal performance a company can achieve) should expect trade-offs. The companies that operate away from the frontier have the potential to improve both … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Atanu Chaudhuri, Craig Giffi, Kumar Kandaswami, Shalabh Kumar Singh | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Chronic Misalignment
Why leadership’s calls for better organizational alignment don’t work, and how a simple ‘value language’ can remove common barriers
Content: Article | Authors: Gregory Dickinson, Michael Puleo | Source: Deloitte Review | Subject: Management
The Overconfidence Trap
With respect to the imprecision in defining M&A best practices, we want to highlight the extent to which maxims about effective deal management can be misconstrued or twisted in ways that miss important points. Truisms espoused by academics and advisors, or shared among executives, can be less complete than they seem on the surface. When the margin for error is narrow, that can lead to … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Dwight Allen, Punit Renjen | Source: Deloitte Review | Subject: Mergers & Acquisitions