Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations. Cost Effective Solution.

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Consulting McKinsey Turnaround Information Technology 68

Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! Acquire great talent. More customers over your expanded revenue base, more employees, deeper management, less product concentration, and most importantly, there’s more talent to take a load off the owner. Of course it’s the annoying (bad) customers he was referring to.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. The obvious focus here: efficiency at scale. In an organization focused on scalable efficiency, the focus of learning is on sharing explicit knowledge.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Over the course of the year, we found new great clients, added people to the team and worked on a large number of projects, both internal and external. There is the team, there is the way in which you approach sales and then there is how you manage operations. The second full year for Asamby Consulting is in the books. Let me explain.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Decreased productivity: Bad teamwork can lead to decreased productivity as team members may struggle to work together efficiently. A toxic work environment marked by conflicts, lack of trust, and ineffective collaboration can discourage talented individuals from joining the organization.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

I know talent development budgets are perpetually tight, but we can’t afford to overlook the junior managers who would most benefit from management knowledge. I’m not arguing that senior leadership development doesn’t have value — of course it does — but our proportions seem out of balance.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He started out as a MBA/chemical engineer with years of experience in the design field and great success in operations, but decided that his talents and passions could truly be put to use when he pursued his dream of helping companies achieve success. But his road to consulting success was not a short one.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Strategic Information Technology and Operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out. How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

I was grateful for the recent opportunity to communicate with Jennifer Marsh, Global Head of Public Relations Strategy, and Cheryl Coulthurst, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, at North Highland. Additionally, we offer courses in consulting essentials, business analysis, negotiation, and more.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Of course, low productivity can depress wages, but in recent decades, wages haven’t grown as much as expected even during periods of robust economic productivity growth. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Look ahead and see opportunity: Most leaders view this as the role of senior executives.

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Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Although digital investment is almost unquestionably the right course of action for most firms, organizations still struggle to create the desired results. Most companies target digital transformation and end up with digital upgrades, using digital technology to increase efficiency or effectiveness at something your firm is already doing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Of course, this approach has its flaws: it can cause people to self-promote, burn out, focus on individual performance at the expense of unit performance, and even deliberately undermine their peers. Dan helped improve this design, sharing a concept that his operations center used to secure other types of equipment for easy movement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Since the 1980s, management practices like the Toyota Production System that promote efficiency, quality, and scale have done wonders to lift the quality and profitability of global manufacturing. He has hired new kinds of talent, including people with more creative experience and who have greater comfort with ambiguity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To help them in their new roles, companies spend almost $14 billion a year on courses, books, videos, coaches, tests, and executive education programs — and such spending rose 10% last year. How talent management is changing. But there’s little evidence that much of this works. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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QEmploy

MAY 2, 2019

Second, in line to the public sector, is the financial sector in which a lot of firms are switching towards digitalizing their operations. The Nordic consulting industry is experiencing challenges when it comes to a talent gap being created. This also reinforces the point of the talent gap.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Of course, that still only includes the data breaches we know about. Cybersecurity teams are working hard to address this problem, of course. Large enterprises typically operate dozens of security products with growing headcount in all areas of their security organizations. So what needs to change?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. They are also agile in course-correcting when the needs of the business change, and are more easily prepared to shift organizational resources to ensure that the strategy is executed.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Leadership teams must recognize that being successful will take courage, because once they embark on the journey, the insights from data analytics will often point to the need for decisions that could require a course correction. Drive strategy and accelerate change? Increase market share?

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It may be lonely at times, and you may have doubts in your intended course, but at critical junctures your team needs your leadership. structure, process), implementation choices (transition sequencing, change management approach), and talent alignment decisions for key positions. Once you make a decision, do it with conviction.

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

It may be lonely at times, and you may have doubts in your intended course, but at critical junctures your team needs your leadership. structure, process), implementation choices (transition sequencing, change management approach), and talent alignment decisions for key positions. Once you make a decision, do it with conviction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Focus on the talent. Both American Express and P&G have long been known for their talent management approaches, and their work with analysts and data scientists is no exception. They both work with vendors, of course, but have a strong focus on open source tools for internal development. Augmentation, not automation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. Forces pushing in the other direction — toward hyperspeed — are powerful, of course. Yet the best way to succeed, paradoxically, is to slow things down.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Understanding where those skills overlap and diverge is essential for executives looking to cultivate the next generation of channel management talent within their organizations. Sales managers must of course be concerned with revenue targets, contract profitability, currency fluctuations, and customer payment terms.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In the good old days, of course, predictions were called forecasts and stodgy statisticians would torture their time series and/or molest multivariate analyses to get them. This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. That’s bad news and worse management.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Instead, change is part of their broader operational paradigm. Change often means that your workforce will need to act, behave, think, or operate differently, which won’t go over well with everyone. Determine what your employees need and plot a course that walks them through the change. Successful companies are rarely stagnant.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Cosmetic course corrections will not restore trust and credibility. If businesses leverage it from the back office forward, focusing mainly on increasing efficiency and optimizing internal processes, then our use of technology will result in the displacement of labor. “Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Of course, as the saying goes, it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future. It provided an organizing framework for collecting empirical evidence on how successful platforms operated and why some matchmaker pioneers succeeded and most didn’t. They didn’t solve an important problem for consumers.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’. During a school play in Belgrove Junior school in Clontarf, the most talented kids got the lead parts (Ugly Sisters etc.). My kid was in the chorus line (reflecting the general talent level in our family). We all have talent — in case you don’t know”!

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Energy System Advertising Management 40

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

But talent on its own is not enough. The second constituent in making a great sales force is providing clarity about sales force roles and responsibilities in an effective and efficient organizational structure. Without sustained focus on acquiring talent, the best salespeople are unlikely to join the sales force in the first place.

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