Leadership Alignment
The Price of Fame: When A Celebrity Spokesperson Turns Toxic
Despite the risks, brands will continue to seek a celebrity spokesperson. If the partnership sours, what is the right time to cut—and how?
Leading Bristol Myers Squibb Acquisition Through Disruption
A keen focus on culture kept one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company acquisitions on course during the pandemic.
Who Is Taking Care Of Middle Management?
What is the role of middle managers in an organizational structure? What is their responsibility and how do they contribute to an organization’s success? Top-level…
Strategic Context Generates Enterprise-Wide Alignment and Elevated Performance
The Executive Leadership Team (ELT) of a large logistics services company worked with Insigniam’s leadership development consultants to create a strategic context for the company.…
Accelerating New Drug Development: Part I — Alignment And Commitment
It is no secret that the pharmaceutical industry is filled with a litany of unique challenges and regulations. In our experience — having chiseled away…
Accelerating New Drug Development: Part II — A Rx For Bold Leadership
In our previous discussion, we talked about how to reveal and address the background conversations that prohibit an undeniable commitment to goals and project timelines — the…
Rapid Integration of Acquired Manufacturing and R&D Site
Following its first acquisition, a pharmaceutical organization needed to integrate the purchased company. The acquisition had the potential to serve as a secondary manufacturing site…
Accelerating Patient Recruitment in a Study Involving 25 European Countries
A pharmaceutical company’s clinical research team was missing a critical deadline. They were in the patient recruitment stage for a international study on a type…
Grocery Chain Transforms Morale
The executives of a large grocery chain had struggled with how to improve the productivity and morale of their distribution center. The environment was described…
The Five Stages of Building Alignment
Prior to (and during) strategy execution, creating alignment is crucial to the realization of your strategy. Given how often alignment breaks down, what it really…
Leveraging Core Values Improves Business Performance
A multi-national food products company looks for a way to turn its values into principles for action, convinced those values could spur enterprise-wide transformation and…
How Do You Embed Breakthrough Performance? Stop Agreeing Start Aligning
In this kickoff to our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams, we examine how a team’s search for ‘agreement’ derails breakthrough performance. Wasted…
