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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Consulting is about more than financial return on investment (ROI). Consulting firms also need to invest heavily in a range of educational and training opportunities. Providing access to training that helps consultants to stay competitive as well as to pursue self-actualisation is good for business.

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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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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. Sponsored by Accenture. Machine-learning models trained on these data allow firms to predict when different machines will fail. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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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. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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