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

Progressus

Leadership Alignment Executive sponsorship ensures that the entire firm stays aligned and works together to achieve high-level goals. Are processes/technologies implemented as part of a holistic strategy? Do process improvements support strategic objectives? Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? Can they scale?

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects. Collaboration is not a style.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

In fact, we were actually engaged not in a technology-implementation program but in a huge change-management initiative. Before I arrived in 2011, Partners leadership had made the decision to replace all this complexity with a single, commercial EHR. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

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