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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Resilient organizations, ones that excel at change, operate as a team of teams. Build Agility. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers. Take the example of V12.

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Thoughts on PwC’s Booz Purchase

Tom Spencer

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. Less than half of PwC’s revenues now come from its assurance business, and consulting is one of its fastest growing operations.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g.,

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