Remove Accenture Remove Leadership Remove Methodologies Remove Operations
article thumbnail

Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. While such a role solves an integration challenge, it also creates potential complexity regarding boundaries and decision rights with existing, more traditional roles on the leadership team.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Enter the U.S.

Study 28
article thumbnail

The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Sponsored by Accenture. Furthermore, the predictive models created by big data methodologies do not incorporate the manager’s unique knowledge of the business. Insight Center.

Data 28
article thumbnail

Why consulting?

Management Consulted

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. However, this was not the only reason why I went into consulting head on.

article thumbnail

ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

article thumbnail

3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. On the other hand, analysts who are too deeply embedded in business functions tend to be biased toward the status quo or leadership’s thinking. Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.