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Beyond Frameworks: Traits of a Successful Change Manager
Successful change managers are empathetic, curious, versatile, and strategic. They are the organizers, connectors, challengers, and facilitators who bring structure to complex human dynamics during organizational change.
Fearless Innovation & Change: The Art of Strategic Boldness
The most successful businesses do not just adapt to change — they drive it. While innovation styles vary across personalities, leadership approaches, and organizational structures, one element remains constant: the need for fearlessness. However, this fearlessness must be strategic, not reckless.
Keeping the Customer at the Forefront in Novel Product Development
Successful product innovation hinges on prioritizing real customer needs over novelty for novelty’s sake, emphasizing direct user engagement, co-creation with the customer, agile development, and usability to ensure meaningful impact.
Visual Storytelling to Accelerate Change
Using visual communication methods to improve delivery of important information for an airline client.
Exploring the Solution: Persona-Driven Strategies in Integrating Multiple Companies Through an Acquisition
In this case study, we discuss how we helped our client reorganize their newly combined company following an acquisition. By leveraging each entity's core strengths, unifying operations, and managing changes, we enabled them to achieve their strategic goals and foster a cohesive organizational culture.
The Agile Decision
Agile project management has revolutionized the way businesses deliver solutions by emphasizing iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility. As a result, businesses can respond more swiftly to market changes and customer needs, significantly reducing the time to market.
Cleared for Takeoff: How Strategic Change Management Ensured a Smooth Preferential Bidding System Rollout
Forum Solutions collaborated with a major North American airline to develop and execute a change management strategy for a new pilot preferential bidding system.
From Obsolete to Optimized: A Successful Software System Upgrade
From Obsolete to Optimized: A Successful Software System Upgrade
Inclusion as a Business Strategy
Inclusion is not just a moral imperative; it is a business strategy that leads to better employee engagement, innovation, and resilience. As organizations navigate the complexities of the modern world, those who embrace and actively foster an inclusive culture are better positioned to thrive.
Project Logic: Common-sense Principles for Impactful Project Management, Part 2 of 2
A small number of simple and customizable tools and principles can be used to accomplish most critical aspects of project management, without a ton of formal training.
Project Logic: Common-sense Principles for Impactful Project Management, Part 1 of 2
Whatever your role in a project, whether you hold the title or credentials of a Project Manager or some other role, any business effort can benefit by applying a handful of simple, intuitive, and customizable principles and tools.
A Look Forward: Supply Chains, Global Markets and Sustainability
Today, global trade remains as unstable as ever, yet heightened awareness continues to fuel a commitment to readiness, and readiness in turn spurs the formulation of actionable strategies designed to navigate future risks and unforeseen events.
Establishing and Leading an IT Shared Service Organization
Consolidating multiple information technology teams into a shared service organization.
COVID, Politics and Shortening your Supply Chain
From boardrooms to dining rooms, businesses and consumers are experiencing the effects of supply chains in disarray. Business leaders need to prepare their organizations for the future.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 2 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part two of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Expanded Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 1 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part one of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Core Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 4 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 3 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 2 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 1 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.