Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It is the magic that happens when individuals work together to benefit the whole—not just within teams, but across product lines, geographies and functions. And we aren’t able to have the kinds of meetings where we just work it through and get aligned.”. “We But meetings don’t always equal connection or trust building.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Talent Optimization : Recruiting, retaining, and nurturing skilled employees to drive productivity and innovation. A report by Accenture indicates that effective financial management can improve profitability by 14%. The Harvard Business Review found that data-driven decision-making can result in a 5-6% increase in productivity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. The phrase “stand-up” is literal—participants remain standing for the duration of the meeting—and the reason is speed. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

A piece of machinery to meet a product need? For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Insight Center.

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Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

Think of a new internal capability in the same way you would plan to introduce a product or service to the external market. Or a quarterly meeting might allow users to set priorities and make trade-offs around the schedule for new features and investments. Kates Kesler, a part of Accenture. Right Connections. Christie Irizarry.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Types of projects include business planning, market evaluation, competitor analysis, product strategy, mergers and acquisition, and international expansion. Ex-Consultants Agency : “Where Consulting Meets Executive Search. If you’re a technology consultant, Avanade does a lot of subcontracting to Accenture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

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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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Keep in mind, however, that certain firms – especially those with a technology focus – such as Capgemini , Accenture and Tata Consulting Group specialize in certain kinds of consulting and can tarnish your brand when you are trying to move up to the strategy level.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. Sponsored by Accenture. Japanese manufacturing has a slightly larger concentration of work hours in production jobs (54% of hours versus the U.S.’s

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. HBR Staff/Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Here, executives must ask: “Does our offering meet and satisfy actual consumer needs ?” Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Interestingly, customers have varied preferences for retailers depending on the product category. The first, and most fundamental, level of competition relates to competition for relevance.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. If you’re a food company, can you produce healthy products that address the growing rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Their common characteristic: Using digital data exhaust, which is the data generated from the regular activities of a sales force or their customers, to change the behavior of frontline sales representatives in ways that dramatically improve sales productivity and effectiveness. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. It culminated in a two-day meeting for the entire organization that included open conversations about what was working well and what opportunities and challenges this new organization needed to address for its clients. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Certain tasks, such as talking a client through their frustration with a faulty product or mishandled order will, for now, remain a human task. Yet other elements of the “job” of store associate are still done by humans, including advising in-store customers about product features.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Doing so has a direct influence on how organizations run their business, how they can create new revenue streams, how they can re-imagine their products and services, how they can increase operational efficiencies, redefine their workforce, and much more.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Yet most organizations don’t manage internal collaboration productively, and assume that technology or formal org charts can yield agility. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.). Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

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. to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch). to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch).

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

At least, that was what went through my mind as I sat in on a recent senior team meeting at a fast-growing, two-year-old e-commerce company. Just being close to the founders — working alongside them, being in meetings where there is a personal connection — tends to motivate and inspire young staff. laura schneider FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. The products are shipped directly to customers’ homes, where they can browse and purchase what they like. These guests are pressed for time; they often arrive late at night and check out first thing in the morning. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. In 2014 the International Organization for Standardization developed guidelines for the disclosure of potential vulnerabilities in products. It provides a reasonable framework for assessing cybersecurity risk across the product life cycle. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Examples of these projects might be a voice interface to help pharmacists look up substitute drugs, or a tool to schedule internal meetings. The vast majority are still playing catch-up. Insight Center. The Age of AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

To estimate on-demand spending, respondents were queried about whether they purchased on-demand products and services in a monthly period, the categories of the purchases, and the amount spent. Sponsored by Accenture. The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. Results were projected to the U.S.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

Industrial Products. As always, you will be working in a team intensive environment, so be sure to network and collaborate as you will be meeting plenty of new people. Accenture, a Capgemini Consulting Competitor. They profess the ability to better solve client issues due to their expertise instead of having to learn the sector.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level. This would allow it to uniquely identify every product, even distinguishing fashion items by size and color, as well as proving information on its location. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Executives allowed their technology team to acquire a lot of products, but no one understood what the advanced tools were supposed to accomplish or how to use them. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In the years that followed Sogeti’s founding, the company opened offices in Switzerland and France to meet the needs of clients. Despite a 40-year season of glory, Capgemini sold its North American healthcare consulting program in 2005 to Accenture , one of its main competitors. Industries. Office Locations.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Freelance Consultants A consultant is a highly specialized person with vast experience who is paid to provide professional or expert advice in a particular field or specialty, such as advising a company on digital marketing campaigns or on increasing productivity, etc.

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SkillQuo

APRIL 3, 2018

PwC even now allows employees to wear jeans as long as the consultant is not meeting with clients on a given day. A smaller consulting firm, the Lion’esque Group, allows employees to wear athletic wear and claims it helps with productivity. Examples include Accenture opening its digital innovation hub in Chicago in October, 2016.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM Czechoslovakia, and IBM Japan created their own regional consulting services departments to meet business client service needs in each specific region. Consumer Products. Accenture – biggest services competitor. These services focused on business management and information technology. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. Strength of productivity program. This means improving productivity at a rate sufficient to put you in at least the top 30% of your industry. Insight Center.

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