Strategy Alone Won’t Take You There

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Session Overview

You may have a technology & data ambition and the leadership endorsement to drive profitable and sustainable growth, however, without the right organisational conditions, your strategy will most likely not deliver.

Join Hélène as she shares how to reframe a new Tech & Data operating model to deliver an ambitious strategic agenda and the role of the team’s diversity in its success.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • How to create the conditions of success of your transformation
  • What diversity means at PR
  • Why diversity is a key success factor of our ambition

This session is for you if… you want thought leadership on organisational transformation and understand the role of the leader in building a high performing team through diversity of profiles.

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