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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Over the years, many leading organizations have struggled to retain top talent. Since companies compete to attract and retain top talent, these shifts in how the workplace is organised are likely to persist. Today, the rise of remote working has enabled many employees to re-evaluate their employment options once again.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Retain talent? Market trends?

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Future of Work in the Making

Eupnea Management Consulting

New post-crisis limits for human talent and automation reshaping work What is the impact? The strong agility for workforce changes that most businesses developed during the pandemic will help them respond to similar future crisis if crisis-led learnings and practices are preserved in their organisations.

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Designing an Effective Cloud Center of Excellence

Kates Kesler

At another financial services institution, the intent was to build common practices, tools, and data governance for advanced analytics. In addition, the design established a governance mechanism to help drive collaboration between the new partners by including a monthly forum where tensions between the roles were addressed.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

When contending for talent in a competitive world, no organization — let alone the largest in the world, with the largest stakes — can afford to lose employees like 2nd Lieutenant Riley. Attracting Talent. Taking 50% of the population off the table meant losing too much potential talent.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

To effectively balance investments between fixed (reusable hardware and software) and variable (degree of customization) assets required a clear interaction model for key processes and strategic decisions that outlined roles, governance forums, operating cadences, and decision rights. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Followers and organizations thrive with influential leaders and suffer from ineffective leaders whatever the context: businesses, government, community, education, or faith-based. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. The leader-follower relationship is everything.