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

Progressus

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. How often do you release new products/services?

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). Consumer Products. The cases usually take ~15 minutes to complete and the interviewers love it if you include some form of technology implementation into your recommendation. Automotive. Chemicals and Petroleum. Communications. Electronics.

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

Harvard Business

” Another common misconception is that collaboration is cross-selling, the practice of suggesting new services or products, usually under another colleague’s purview, to an existing client. On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. It used to be that “serving a city” meant selling a product or service directly to city governments. What Does It Take to Be a Successful Smart Cities Provider?

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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. We invited thousands of professionals to test and rate the two products. We conducted site visits to health care organizations around the country using the products we were considering.

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