This week, our charts focus on productivity—from achieving successful transformations to advanced-manufacturing projects and more.
Organizations that prioritize changes to business-as-usual processes are more likely to achieve successful transformations, according to Senior Partner Dana Maor and colleagues. Companies that successfully transformed reported higher rates of change in processes such as executive-level briefings, performance reviews, and business objective setting. Organizations that changed executive-level weekly briefings were twice as likely to have a successful transformation.
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A horizontal dot chart illustrates the share of respondents from “other organizations” and “successfully transformed organizations” who changed various business processes as a result of transformation. The chart lists 9 processes on the y-axis, with corresponding percentages on the x-axis, ranging from 0 to 100. The likelihood of successful transformation for each process is listed on the right side of the chart, with executive-level weekly briefings having a 2.0 times likelihood, followed by monthly or quarterly business reviews of performance at 1.6 times. The other processes listed, in order of likelihood, are “business objective/target setting” (1.5x), “individual performance dialogues” (1.5x), “annual business planning, budgeting, or forecasting” (1.4x), “unit-level performance reviews” (1.3x), “capital allocation” (1.3x), “IT resource allocation” (1.2x), and “talent allocation” (1.2x).
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To read the article, see “Want to break the productivity ceiling? Rethink the way work gets done,” August 27, 2025.