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Here are some of our thoughts, packaged into short, single topic points of view, on how insights gleaned from all participants in any organization create a powerful whole, far greater than the sum of all the parts. We believe that even if this degree of alignment is your only competitive advantage…it just may be enough.


Organizational Self-Awareness: A Key to Sustainable Competitive Advantage
By Dr. Michael Seitchik In a study of over 22,000 companies, published in MIT’s Sloan Management Review, researchers found over 80% of companies that outperform their industry peers on Total Shareholder Return (TSR), by more than 20%, lose all of their advantage...

ARC: From Chaos to Unified Action
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik Leveraging the Knowledge of the Employees ARC’s employee redesign process consisted of four phases: (1) Introduction to...

ARC: A Plan Comes to Light
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik Shining the Light on the Practical Sutcliid asked his COO, James Waln, to interview the senior consultant—the one who...

ARC: The Chaos of Unexpected Change
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Adminstration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik An Unpleasant Meeting The late summer sun shone through the CEO’s office windows illuminating a large office designed to...

What CEOs Don’t Know Can Kill the Company
By Nick Thompson Everyone knows that attempts to change your organization to meet new market demands typically fail. Change initiatives fail over 75% of the time. Everyone also knows that a key to successful strategy execution is to get your employees aligned with...

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: Unlearning Past Success by Building on Current Strengths
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik The corporate VPs met alone to discuss how to move the executive team forward. They felt all the necessary building...

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: Reality Was Refreshing
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik Their Strengths Their people were trying to work together. The company had a strong focus on efficiency....

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: Discovering Reality
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik Receiving a great deal of pressure from corporate to fix the problem and restore the company to its former profitability,...

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: Right Solution, Wrong Problem
By Dr. Miles Overholt, Founder & CEO, Strategia Analytics™ Jessi Purdy, SVP Business Administration, Strategia Analytics™ Dr. Michael Seitchik The executive team had counted on the new enterprise software’s ability to share information across silos creating the...

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: Something’s Wrong, Fix it Quick
It’s not uncommon for executive teams to feel pressure to take swift action when things go wrong. But is swift action the best action? A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: From Market Leader to Market Loss is a multi-chapter story exploring one company’s journey of self discovery and return to prominence.

A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: From Market Leader to Market Loss
Any company can find its market leadership challenged when it loses sight of who they are and fails to understand what needs to change, where to begin, and what impact each decision can have. A Story of a Market Leader Left Behind: From Market Leader to Market Loss is a multi-chapter story exploring one company’s journey of self discovery and return to prominence.

We know why some divisions of your company are soaring and others can’t get off the ground. Do you?
It’s a common event: Quarterly results are released showing several business units performing well, some may even be exceeding expectations. Too often, however, one division is struggling. What you’ll never hear management say is, “we don’t really know why.” But it’s true; they may not know. (Psst, We just might.)

70% Of corporate transformations fail. We know why… do you?
It’s true. A stunning 70% of transformation agendas are viewed as unsuccessful. And if you’re measuring the typical key performance indicators, listening to your managers and employees with an open ear, and hiring the best subject matter experts available…then your company may be at risk, too. Do you know why?

If you have relied solely on your leadership team to steer your company to success, well, we bet it was a very long winter.
Your leadership team are experts at only a small percentage of skills required to make your company a winner. Your employees have the rest. So, how can you tap into all that collective wisdom?