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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

A recent SAP-Oxford survey identified three key models emerging in the professional services industry: 1. The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. These members are 2.6

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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