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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. 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.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Business-to-consumer subscription businesses have attracted more than 11 million U.S.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Digital players wield outsize market power. Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. The problem is that the intended outcomes and commitments to the market might be negatively affected, harming the reputation of the organization. Adaptive planning becomes crucial here.