Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow.

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Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Advertise successes.

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Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 48

Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

Hass talked about understanding culture, resolving conflict, improving literacy rates, and empowering people to confidently communicate with others around the world. When I spoke with John Hass, the CEO of Rosetta Stone, about what his company does, his focus wasn’t just on learning languages. It was much broader than that.

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Trends Accenture Information Technology Information Technology 39

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. High performing organizations are 2.5

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Agile How To Efficiency Groups 41

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. “In bringing together a specialist direct-marketing agency with a generalist creative shop, cultural differences were bound to arise, given the contrast in customer approach and sensibilities.

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Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

Data is not always shared efficiently. Sponsored by Accenture. However, through a new culture and technology strategy, the company pivoted and raised its Net Promoter Score by 18 points. This often results in wildly inconsistent customer experiences that make companies look disconnected and unfocused. Insight Center.

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Data Banking Sales Accenture 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

The result, or outcome, is that farmers can manage their operations more efficiently and increase crop yields. Sponsored by Accenture. For instance, Cummins, the leading diesel engine manufacturer, has been gathering real-time performance data of its engines and is using it to identify how engines can be made to work more efficiently.

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Productivity Company Engineering Sales 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Insight Center. All of the above?

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Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Having firsthand experience of an attack, even a simulated one, means the C-suite will gain awareness that’s vital to driving a top-down security-focused culture. To triage efficiently, security teams need as much context as possible to ascertain if an alert is important or not. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Helps federal agencies solve complex business issues, manage risk, and improve financial measures and the overall quality, efficiency and effectiveness of public service. assignee abroad to experience that lifestyle and office culture. PWC CULTURE. Public Sector Practice. Exit Opportunities.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. P&G has a culture that emphasizes entry-level hiring and promotion from within, but in the data science and machine learning domain it made an exception and hired several people who already possessed the necessary skills. Insight Center. The Age of AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. Sponsored by Accenture. Estimates of digital transformation failures range from 66% to 84%. Insight Center. No strategy is static.

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Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. As the technology is able to identify products in such an efficient manner, inventory can be updated in real time and the data can be used to inform targeted replenishment and merchandizing decisions. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Our culture would kill it.” Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

In addition to assessing the skills and experience CIOs bring as hybrid experts, there can be a cultural hurdle to clear. Some CEOs are still in denial, and time is against them — the longer it takes, the more dramatic the needed transformation and the higher the risk.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. Sponsored by Accenture. On the one hand are data science groups that are too independent of the business. Insight Center.

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Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

For instance, Goldcorp, the global mining company, recently partnered with Accenture to help knit together an ecosystem of large and small IoT suppliers to co-develop a connected mine in Cerro Negro, Nicaragua. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions.

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ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Technical people hope the pilot effort will seamlessly interoperate with existing tech infrastructures and processes, while business folks look for efficiencies, better customer experience, and KPI alignment. Pilots can help facilitate cultural and organization change. Think “lean pilots.”

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Banking Engineering Enterprise System 29

Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Invest in building a culture of membership. Today, streaming is a more efficient way for me to access professionally created video content, and Netflix provides me with streaming. I joined Netflix for access to great content in an efficient way. Sponsored by Accenture. Subscription is a pricing structure. Insight Center.

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Cash Flow Survey Metrics Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

The intuitive belief that technology can manifest from money alone, anthropologists tell us , is a culturally rooted notion which hides the fact that the scarcity experienced by some is linked to the abundance enjoyed only by a few. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Efficiency Energy Software Resources 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. It’s this ability to automate paperwork, the system that allows us to trust each other across vast distances and cultural differences, that will allow us to extend globalization past the limits set by Rodrik’s trilemma. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. In Globalization 2.0,

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