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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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What Management Consulting Looks Like Post Covid-19

Tom Spencer

The main objective for each project is value-add for the client, and technology can improve both the effectiveness of the solutions offered as well as the efficiency with which those solutions are created. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa.

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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. What can I do?”

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

Kates Kesler

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. What is “center-led”.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions.

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