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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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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen. Building an agile network. More than 600 were selected. In 2018, we counted more than 50,000 fast sessions across the company.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time. We need to be more like Oracle.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. I was the best student my instructors had.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking. Not understanding the impact of local culture on organizational culture can lead to grave miscalculations. Heffernan, M.

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g.,