Communicating in high-stakes situations – from M&A integrations to spinoffs, carveouts and IPOs
Communicating in high-stakes situations is the ultimate test of leadership. The discussion with senior HR leaders during this month’s HR M&A Roundtable was illuminating. We discussed five questions: The challenges in linking talent to value creation plans The overlooked roles that are critical to value creation What helps align incentives to value creation How can […]
Why do transformations so often fail?
At Adeptation, our body of work spans 25+ enterprise transactions, three IPOs, multiple corporate rebrands, product launches and repositionings and dozens of technology implementations. Our experience in transitions, transactions and transformations gives us a unique, cross-sector point of view on why so many great companies flounder or fail outright at transformation: The wrong type of […]
Why great companies are often not-so-great at pricing
A lot of innovation has happened in the last fifteen years in the realm of CRM, sales and marketing automation, ecommerce, data analytics and visualization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics.