Fostering Collaboration

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) conducted a survey of 249 business leaders to determine how and why companies collaborate internally, the barriers they face to doing so and how internal collaboration influences business results. For the purpose of this study, we define collaboration as the practice of working together across different functions and across different locations or business units.

The Last Mile: Connecting Strategy to People

When telco CEOs discuss capital expenditures with stock market analysts, they are often focused on expanding, upgrading and maintaining their network infrastructure. At some point in an analyst meeting, the analyst will ask the CEO to talk about investments in the “last mile”.

Training & Development Interview in Human Resources Magazine: Suite Talk with Alexandre Paitre

BTS’s Alexandre Paitre discusses his path founding and leading BTS Asia, as well as the struggles and trends surrounding Learning & Development in the region.

How to Get Your Staff to Successfully Execute Change – Chief Executive Magazine

Lou Schachter and Rick Cheatham of BTS’s sales practice discuss the importance of selling both current and new offerings (XY selling) during a time when a company is transitioning its sales strategy.

The Strategy Execution Journey: Confronting the Challenge of Exceptional Execution

A well-formulated business strategy, powerful product or breakthrough innovation can put an organization on the competitive map, but only sustained strategy execution can assure long-term success.

The Business Acumen Imperative

Technology is revolutionizing assessment center capabilities, transforming best practices and changing the way solutions and simulations are developed and administered.

Why Innovation Efforts Fail and How to Fix Them

Tools, Training And Consultants Alone Aren’t Enough. Here Are Three Things We Have To Get Right.

The Keys to Effective Decision Making

We came away with some unexpected insights about how the human components of any decision collide with the organizational ones

Mindsets: Gaining Buy-in to Strategy

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), with sponsorship from BTS, conducted a survey of 228 business leaders to assess the factors that determine effective buy-in for corporate strategy throughout an organization.

Disrupting Leadership Development

Why the traditional approach to leadership strategies is not improving performance, how it is slowing execution, and what to do about it.