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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. Programs and staff grow. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. What is “center-led”.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. In this article, we’ll provide a high-level overview of where the professional services industry is right now – and what current conditions mean for project-based organizations. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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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? Tom Falkowski.

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Is Strategy still Relevant to Organization Design?

Kates Kesler

The focused for R&D work was shifted from primarily inside-out product innovation to commercially driven, market read projects. To be truly adaptive, it is more important than ever for leaders to spend time aligning on and communicating tradeoff choices related to customers, products, markets, channels, and new capabilities.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

2 And as market conditions, companies, and products and services evolve, so too should the organization and interaction models. 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino. 2 Bridging Organization Design and Performance. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler.