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

Harvard Business

Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide. 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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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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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. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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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

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. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Infosys Locations: 18 countries, 20+ cities.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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