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ERP Software for Project-Driven Organizations

Progressus

Even so, many project-driven organizations still operate with a bevy of spreadsheets in a siloed environment. Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Accelerate operational impact. Ensure business agility.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies?

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). IT Operations.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. As organization designers this trend intrigues us. Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. In three years the progress is impressive, especially in the healthcare sector.

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