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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes.

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4 million pounds of waste from landfills and saving more than 2.2 million gallons of water.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Mulinge, P.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Research has linked organizational culture to employee morale, commitment, health, and productivity (Schein & Schein, 2016). & Smit, S.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). And demand is increasing.