Change management by function occurs within a context of dissonance. People at their core are creatures of habit, with these habits adding secure familiarity to our lives. The working environment is no exception, with habits being key to how a person performs their assigned role. When change occurs, these habits are interrupted, creating dissonance – […]
Change in any circumstance is complex, interrupting the certainty and habits with which have become accustomed. In large organisations seeking improved company, team and individual performance, change management is a process that can add tremendous value to these efforts, if implemented in the correct way. In this installment of Letsema Talks, Sharika Singh, Senior Manager […]
For decades, HR practitioners, business owners and team leaders have been vexed by what effect company culture has on employee motivation, and vice-a-versa. This is the question that saw Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi in 2015 survey 20,000 workers in 50 major companies, conduct a series of experiments and peruse a score of academic research. […]
In the latest installment of Letsema Talks, we talk to Carolin Feck, a Senior Consultant at Letsema, about the Balanced Scorecard, its basic principles, how its weighting accounts for a holistic picture of business performance and why it is a strategic business management tool. Our conversation follows the recent article, Balanced Scorecard: An adaptable tool […]
The allure of digital transformation Innovation is crucial to an organisation’s long term performance. Half of all listed companies on the S&P 500 are forecast to be replaced in the next 10 years, with a primary reason being their inability to adapt through innovation, spearheaded by the rising dominance of digital technology. This has led […]
In situations of extreme stress, where assumptions are exploded and the most carefully planned budgets and projections prove ineffective, problems appear so large they can seem insurmountable. According to organisational theorist Karl E. Weick’s seminal January 1988 paper, Small Wins: Redefining the Scale of Social Problems, a problem’s size “often precludes innovative action” because the […]
