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
A wealth management team in a top 5 national bank had challenges attracting and retaining high-quality team members and the team’s backlog of work had grown insurmountable. The client needed a strategy to reduce attrition but lacked the expertise to identify the root causes of turnover, eliminate the team’s backlog, identify service gaps, and build a stable, successful team. Using Pepper Foster’s strategic transformation experience and StratC&T™ framework we implemented a team development program and workflow strategy to solve the client’s largest challenges, reduce turnover, increase team and customer satisfaction, work the backlog, and hire and onboard new team members.
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As a leader in the agriculture lending industry, our client had reached a strategic inflection point. The CEO told the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board of Directors, “We don’t know how to do strategy so we need to organize a strategy practice for the enterprise.” Leveraging our StratX™ framework, Pepper Foster implemented a collaborative strategy development solution that aligned the ELT and Board around a new corporate vision, strategic priorities, themes, plans, budget, and execution governance model.
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The client had seen the number of initiatives significantly increase over the last 3 years and needed a tool and methodology to align leadership around project prioritization and resource utilization. Pepper Foster worked with stakeholders to understand the priorities and constraints and rapidly developed and deployed a resource management tool and process.
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Pepper Foster spearheaded a digital transformation initiative focused on enhancing the athlete experience and improving operational efficiency. The new solution dramatically improved the functionality and efficiency of the lab, allowing for simultaneous multi-athlete tracking and interactive data engagement. Researchers and athletes experienced a more seamless interaction, with significant enhancements in data capture and analysis capabilities.
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Pepper Foster was engaged to spearhead a Lean 5S initiative for a regional healthcare provider. The primary objective was establishing an organized and sustainable space, fostering increased efficiency while instilling a culture of ownership and responsibility among the Clinical and Learning and Development (L&D) teams.
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How Pepper Foster helped a large utility turn around a critical software upgrade project and ensure dependent projects could be successful by refocusing the team, establishing best practices, and implementing a comprehensive runbook department-wide.
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