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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Consulting though has many aspects – it’s not just about smooth talking. What are the different types of consultants? What value do consultants provide?

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. health systems, policy makers, and predictive analytics vendors. Clear, committed leadership and a culture strongly supportive of change and learning are also critical factors.

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership Behavior – is how a leader responds within the leadership system. According to a study by McKinsey & Company, it is projected that by 2030, the time spent during a workweek on information technology and programming tasks will increase the most. A behavior is something that can be seen and described.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most. While some skills will be less in demand it is important to consider the human leadership skills that remain in the technology-driven workplace. Wayne Gretzky.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? How organizations are changing.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Digital transformation is an ongoing process of changing the way you do business. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.