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Our thought leadership predictions for 2021

The Source

Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. Many of those responsible for content production in consulting firms really stepped up to the plate in 2020, helping meet the huge appetite for information and guidance at a time when their clients were crying out for support.

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

Progressus

Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back.

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5 retail strategies that are here to stay

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Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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2021 Black Friday guide: 5 CX strategies for retailers this holiday season

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When volume surges or the unexpected happens, organizations can pivot and scale support capacity quickly to meet customer needs across channels. And of course, the cloud’s ability to react with speed and agility based on fluctuating volume will be key this holiday season. Strategy #3: Combine automation & empathy.

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7 Tenets of a Good CEO Succession Process

Harvard Business

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Does he or she possess the agility and courage required to make difficult choices? How does this impact his or her leadership?

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.