George Labovitz

Expert in organizational alignment, integration, strategies, and quality management

What is organizational alignment and how can it have a direct effect on your company's bottom line? Best-selling author, thought leader, and Boston University professor and chair George Labovitz, PhD. is a sought after speaker because his alignment strategies get results that directly affect profitability. His tools and techniques for creating streamlined organizations, improving processes and achieving rapid results in the face of constant change have made Labovitz the secret weapon of some of the world's biggest organizations. Labovitz is the lead author of The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things, a cult classic in the business world. He recently focused his research on using the power of social media technology to drive alignment, with extraordinary results. Through examples and case studies, Labovitz explains why the current business and health care climate has an urgent need for alignment strategies and how to transform strategic intent into tactical action. Labovitz offers audiences of all sizes the same insight and inspiration that resulted in his receiving Boston University's highest teaching award.

Distinguished and diverse. Labovitz is the founder and chairman of ODI, a management training and consulting firm that has worked with more than 2,000 leading organizations in the world, including 12 of Fortune's Top 20 companies. Clients include such varied organizations as British Airways, Procter & Gamble, Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Air Force. ODI was twice named to Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies. Labovitz has presented keynote addresses on alignment, quality, and leadership to diverse audiences throughout the world, from world congresses on quality in Singapore to national meetings of the American Hospital Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the war colleges of the Navy, Army, and Air Force and is currently consulting in alignment strategy and assessment to the Chief of Naval Operations. He was named the Civilian National Consultant for Quality and Organizational Change to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force.

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The Power of Alignment. Aligned and integrated organizations outperform their nearest competitors by every major financial measure. What is alignment and how can it benefit your bottom line? George Labovitz provides tools and techniques for creating streamlined organizations, improving processes and achieving rapid results in the face of constant change.

Social Media Technology and Organizational Alignment. Google docs. Blogs. Facebook. They?re not just for the younger generation. These could be the tools that give your company an integrated edge. Labovitz shares case studies that reveal surprising ways social media can drive alignment strategy.

Healthcare Challenges. The great challenge faced by healthcare management today is achieving organizational alignment and focus in the face of constant change. Several world-class healthcare organizations, facing multiple problems, have focused on the process of organizational alignment to achieve their objectives. Labovitz discusses the key competencies that these organizations must have in order to achieve and maintain their goals.

Managing for Productivity. Labovitz focuses on the human side of productivity improvement, capitalizing on the consultants that are already on your payroll - your employees. He describes the management and supervisory practices and systems that energize and mobilize the workforce, including keys to motivation, styles of leadership, and creating and managing teams.

The Quality Advantage. Labovitz introduces fundamental total quality principles and concepts that will make a demonstrable difference to your organization. His strategies help employees understand their roles in meeting customer requirements and expectations. He shows how to calculate and reduce the cost of quality and provides tools needed to improve work processes and break down functional barriers to quality.

 

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