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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . An enterprise – based, c enter-led team oversees governance of the integrated project portfolio to define priorities across the enterprise. .

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Reductions in staffing levels can destroy or erode organization capabilities or “muscle” that are at the heart of their competitive advantage and may have taken years to develop. Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

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. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products.

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Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

Working as an in-house consultant within a corporate industry rather than in a consulting firm may mean that your day to day dealings will be working with technology focused people with a different skill set to yours who are developing the new strategic areas that need to be explored. How much do you need to know? Word will soon get around.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

Most importantly, though, it demands an ultra-specialized talent pool that, according to latest reports, currently stands at only 22,000 PhD-level experts worldwide — a remarkably small pool. This makes finding, retaining, and nurturing talent the field’s most pressing challenge. trillion and $5.8

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

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. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.