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Redesigning an Organization to Achieve ~ $1 Billion in Savings

Sep 16, 2024 | bcg.com | Paul Goydan |Kevin Kelley |Nithya Vaduganathan

How BCG used a cascaded and holistic organization-design approach to help a global biotech firm reduce its gross labor and non-labor costs by 20%. A global biotechnology company realized that it had to embrace major structural changes to achieve financial stability. The firm was amid significant portfolio changes, including patent expiry on its main product and a pivot to investment in new disease areas. Revenue had slid significantly in the previous three years.
Exploring a Better Way to Manage Costs

May 28, 2024 | bcg.com | Paul Goydan |Kevin Kelley

Too often leaders wait for a crisis to cut costs, resulting in reactive, shortsighted measures. There’s a better way. To achieve cost excellence, leaders should take stock of the dynamics that often drive inefficiencies and address them head on. Leaders need a holistic, disciplined approach to managing their costs. Those who adopt this approach will build an always-on capability for keeping costs out.
The office is broken: Can conceptual “atom smashing” repair it?

Mar 12, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Kevin Kelley

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The office is broken: Can conceptual “atom smashing” repair it?

Mar 12, 2024 | bigthink.com | Kevin Kelley

Excerpted from Irreplaceable, copyright © 2024 by Kevin Ervin Kelley. Reprinted with permission from Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc. All rights reserved. In the mid-1990s, we developed a restaurant and bar concept that collided the cultural phenomenon of the hit TV shows Seinfeld and Friends with the societal needs and fears many Gen-Xers had in finding suitable partners, buying a home, and starting a family.
What Alfred Hitchcock can teach us about designing a great retail experience

Feb 16, 2024 | devicedaily.com | Kevin Kelley

What Alfred Hitchcock can teach us about designing a great retail experience By Kevin Kelley January 15, 2024Many film buffs consider Alfred Hitchcock one of the greatest movie directors of all time. One of Hitchcock’s most significant contributions to filmmaking was his ability to elicit specific emotions from viewers by carefully crafting and choreographing each scene.
Resetting the Organization to Improve Cost and Enhance Effectiveness

Feb 15, 2024 | bcg.com | Kevin Kelley

Cost is an evergreen problem. Corporate leaders routinely invest in efforts to manage cost and become more efficient. Yet, they complain about inadequate returns on their efficiency investments. When initiatives to manage costs don’t create the intended value, it’s often because leaders don’t address the core factors driving organizational costs.
What Alfred Hitchcock can teach us about designing a great retail experience

Jan 15, 2024 | fastcompanyme.com | Kevin Kelley

Many film buffs consider Alfred Hitchcock one of the greatest movie directors of all time. One of Hitchcock’s most significant contributions to filmmaking was his ability to elicit specific emotions from viewers by carefully crafting and choreographing each scene. The secret to emotions, he believed, was “in the shot,” by controlling what the viewer sees with their eyes and feels with their emotions.
What Alfred Hitchcock can teach us about designing a great retail experience

Jan 15, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Kevin Kelley

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How to reduce cost while building a leaner, faster, stronger organization

Dec 15, 2023 | linkedin.com | Kevin Kelley |Sarah Baxter |Emma Crockett

By Kevin Kelley, Sarah Baxter, and Emma CrockettManaging organization cost remains a critical topic for executives as economic uncertainty continues. Our clients are increasingly struggling with costs that are rising faster than top-line growth; while some drivers are well-known, others present incremental challenges.
I'm a redhead and don't go out on St Patrick's Day because people kiss me and touch my hair. They think it's funny but it's not OK.

Mar 17, 2023 | insider.com | Kevin Kelley

I've been called all sorts of names and had strangers touch my red hair. I'm not alone — many redheaded celebrities have spoken out about how they've been treated. I want more people — especially in the US — to know about gingerism, or bias against redheads. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go.