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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Over the years, many leading organizations have struggled to retain top talent. Since companies compete to attract and retain top talent, these shifts in how the workplace is organised are likely to persist. 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

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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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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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center.

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

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? Instead, take an enterprise lens that enables high-level tradeoffs between agility and leverage to drive real transformation.

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

Kates Kesler

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. Highly regulated industries typically have more centralized oversight functions.

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Designing an Effective Cloud Center of Excellence

Kates Kesler

Accenture has found that over 65 percent of senior executives say that they are struggling to realize the expected benefits of cloud transformation. 1 Source: 2019 Accenture Expectation vs Reality Global Survey of 200 senior IT executives across 200 companies having revenues in excess of $1 billion annually.