Jul 14, 2020 | Organizational Change and Alignment, Strategy Development and Implementation
Jennifer Tomasik Principal Engagement is the art and science of including people in the shaping and implementation of strategy and change. In our experience, intentionally planning what we call the engagement architecture of a project or initiative that you want to... 
Jun 10, 2020 | Organizational Change and Alignment
Todd Smith Principal 2020 has been tumultuous, unlike anything many of us have ever experienced. As we shift to living and working in a new reality, organizations have been left upended. Leaders face abundant, urgent questions about how to care for their organization... 
Apr 8, 2016 | Organizational Change and Alignment, Uncategorized
Larry Hirschhorn Principal In this post I explore the reasons why Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo!, Inc., has failed to revitalize the company. When she took office in 2012, third quarter revenue was $1.2 billion. Third quarter revenue in 2015 was also $1.2 billion. I... 
Aug 15, 2014 | Healthcare, Organizational Change and Alignment
Carey Gallagher Senior Manager No one wants to think their workforce just doesn’t care. But what happens when it looks like that’s the case? We’ve been working with an academic medical center for several years on their initiative to reduce readmissions, when patients... 
Jun 2, 2014 | Healthcare, Organizational Change and Alignment
Carey Gallagher Senior Manager A physician we’ve worked with cut to the chase yesterday. In a meeting about launching a pilot to test a framework for triaging patients needing post-acute services, he said, “you know how much I love getting perfect data. But what we... Feb 27, 2014 | Healthcare, Organizational Change and Alignment
Jennifer Tomasik Principal CFAR was engaged by the Robert Wood John Foundation in a project designed to foster interprofessional collaboration between physicians and nurses, after a national report about the future of nursing provoked objections from physicians’...