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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Consulting is about more than financial return on investment (ROI). Employee productivity being assessed by work completed not hours worked Professional services organizations have traditionally measured productivity by the number of billable hours worked rather than by the work produced during those hours.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

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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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. Sponsored by Accenture. Predicting demand.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Bringing customers and providers together is becoming more common.

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