Discover articles, blog posts, white papers, and insights from the team at Pepper Foster. Our team of experts, thought leaders, and industry professionals share their insights and opinions on everything from the latest trends in technology and business to personal growth and development.
Blog Post
As well as helping Hollywood stars lose weight, GLP-1 therapies like Ozempic are a very effective treatment for type 2 diabetes and, perhaps more importantly, show promise for the treatment of many other serious conditions. They have the potential to significantly alter cost structures, improve patient quality of life, and reduce long-term healthcare expenses.
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Early in my career, I complained to my boss about salespeople, fully convinced that I was several notches above those in sales. He took it as an opportunity to hit me with some radical candor: "Don't kid yourself," he said. "We're all salespeople. And, if you can’t sell, your career is over"
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ChatGPT opened the world’s eyes to both the possible positive and negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, AI stands as both a symbol of hope and a warning of massive changes ahead. Here are some of the big social impacts we need to watch out for and manage, not just as business leaders, but as nations.
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You need to shake things up but getting everybody on board and rowing in the same direction is turning out to be a little more challenging than you thought. Why can’t they see what you see? It’s so obvious, right? Wrong! Getting all of those stakeholders aligned is not going to be easy.
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The old saying used to be that you won’t get fired for buying IBM and, when you have a large high-profile project that needs consulting support you won’t get fired for hiring a large brand name consulting partner like Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, McKinsey, Bain, or BCG, even if the project fails. But, you probably won’t get promoted either, even if it’s a success.
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To be considered a business genius you should always say a new idea is a bad idea because you'll be right 90% of the time. To really get ahead though, you need to be good at identifying and greenlighting the ideas that will make a difference. So how do you do that? How do you determine which ideas are actually good ideas?
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Engaging a consulting firm is often lauded as the key to innovation, expansion, and project execution but, in reality many, if not most, consulting projects fail. This post digs into why and offers advice on how to ensure your consulting project is successful.
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W.L. Gore and Associates (Gore), a 65-year-old materials science company employing 13,000 associates that is perhaps most famous for GORE-TEX, is an interesting example of a successful organizational structure that isn’t based on command and control hierarchies.
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In the leadership team meeting everybody agreed that it’s a great strategy, so why isn’t it being implemented? We’ve all heard of employees quiet quitting their jobs, but the reason so many companies experience strategic drift is that leaders often quiet quit the strategy.
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Success Story
How we used our StratX™ Framework, a rich and comprehensive proven set of methods, practices, templates, and tools that ensure a clear, executable strategic vision is developed and realized, to develop a global operations strategy that helped capitalize on growth opportunities for the next 10-15 years. The plan specifically focused on how best to bring to market new product introductions as quickly as possible and how to transition from genetic development to large-scale regional commercial production.
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How Pepper Foster helped our client's innovation team align enterprise privacy, security, and governance so they could use newly emerging machine learning and AI technologies to discover new insights and opportunities from the data it has been collecting for over 40 years.
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How Pepper Foster helped a client with a dominant position in a market undergoing rapid expansion, yet also displaying clear signs of maturation, develop a diversification strategy. A strategy that enabled them to align the executive leadership team and execute a more focused and targeted diversification strategy that allocated resources more effectively, prioritizing areas with the highest potential for success and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
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An experienced DEI Strategist and Inclusion Coach approached Pepper Foster Consulting seeking support for scaling her firm’s impact. Her expertise is helping impact-oriented, heart-centered, and high-integrity executives who understand the importance of systemizing belonging and inclusion but don't know how to go about achieving it. She recognized the need for expertise in optimizing operations and accelerating growth.
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For 35 years, cycling events, rural economic development, and grants were the mainstay for Cycle Oregon. After establishing a Foundation to build stronger, safer, healthier, and more vibrant communities enabled by cycling, Cycle Oregon reached out to Pepper Foster to help it develop its first strategic plan, define success metrics, and narrow their focus to minimize resource impacts on the broader organization.
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In a dynamic collaboration with the management of a major and minor league sports franchise, Pepper Foster embarked on a transformative project that not only fortified the client's foundation but also paved the way for other opportunities of growth. Our mission: to establish their minor league team in the local community and amplify the major league team’s international presence and influence.
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