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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. And we believe that the HR practitioner has an important role in leading this work.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. Gartner describes this concept as a platform-based system that supports an “internal gig economy.” This will increase digital agility, make them better able to respond to the changes in customer demands and remain competitive.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? Instead, take an enterprise lens that enables high-level tradeoffs between agility and leverage to drive real transformation. Where can resources be leveraged across business units, segments, or geographies to drive savings?

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Quick Feedback: A Small Gesture with An Outsized Impact

Kates Kesler

As companies and strategies become more complex, leaders often need to start collaborating and integrating more to achieve the benefits of both agility and scale. A lot of our value at Kates Kesler is in helping leaders have difficult conversations (in some cases, conversations that have been avoided for years or even decades).

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. While it can be tempting to shy away from the difficult conversations, it is the responsibility of leadership to embrace the challenge and design the appropriate interaction models as well as role model how to turn healthy tension into better decisions. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino.

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Is Strategy still Relevant to Organization Design?

Kates Kesler

Even though the external context may shift, and strategy cycle times may shorten, the discipline and practice of strategy making sets the frame for organization agility. Jaclyn Kates. Kates Kesler, part of Accenture.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

Without deliberate consideration of diversity, structural choices can lock out whole portions of the employee population resulting in limitations on how high, and how fast diverse populations can grow in an organization.

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