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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

We used the STAR model to help them take a holistic and practical approach to thinking through how to build an enterprise capability. . Center-led global team provides integration mechanisms, including common processes and tools, and clear decision guardrails to be utilized across the enterprise. . METRICS/REWARDS . .

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

Kates Kesler

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. The network is connected through lateral integrators such as communities of practice, shared metrics, or formal integrator roles. An Example.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. Deere’s Enterprise Advanced Marketing Group – which is tasked with identifying unarticulated, unmet customer needs, representing opportunities for innovation and growth – has created a system for surveying the motivation of its employees every two weeks.

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business

An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images. Directors should, of course, continue to monitor and disclose many other aspects of ESG performance.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.” Only a few years ago, mobile computing in the enterprise was BYOD — Bring Your Own Device. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Getting Value from Machine Learning Isn’t About Fancier Algorithms — It’s About Making It Easier to Use

Harvard Business

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. AI as project manager. Training the model.