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

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Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes? Are upskilling/training efforts driven by customer feedback? Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. The bottom line?

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Why the Insurance Industry Can’t Risk Overlooking Artificial Intelligence - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM COGNIZANT

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Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions. Insurers should focus the case for a proof of concept on activities that require agility, automation, and continuous innovation.

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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. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Gerald Lord/Getty Images. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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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

Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Relying solely on classroom-based learning has a reputation for being inspiring in the moment but offering little to no transfer of training — nothing changes back on the job. the one-click mobile purchasing app), it is the means through which we get work done (e.g.,