Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. Engineering - writing code and generating data tables with contextual information.

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Engineering Meeting Talent Video 77

Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation.

Leadership 52

Leadership Journal Change Management Study 52

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Think of the groupthink that occurred at Kodak — successful for so many years until the market changed. If we had assessed their organizational culture at the time, our hunch is that the leaders and the overall corporate culture were not prescient or flexible enough to change with the market.

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Culture Methodologies Change Management Agile 36

Nash Consulting

JULY 7, 2022

This presents a rather complex dilemma: consistent and substantial change is necessary, yet asking people to significantly change evokes fear, insecurity, and uncertainty. That is why change management is an art – we must help people work through the resistance so they can accept and embrace change. Action Item!

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Change Management Energy Leadership Management 52

Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And now let’s dwell on the features that help our clients reach their business goals and make Epicflow stay ahead of the competition in the market of project and resource management software solutions. We’re looking forward to seeing their first results and sharing them with our readers. Stay tuned!

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Company Resources Software Enterprise 52

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for? sales force teams.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Women in Project Management March, 7, Dublin, Ireland During this annual event, women engaged in project management will have an opportunity to network with their peers, sophisticate their skills, exchange their ideas, share experiences as well as learn from innovators, decision-makers, developers, and more.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Technical expertise can be very powerful for improving certain technical functions, such as finances, marketing and computer systems. They need consultants who can carefully analyze the problems, and can guide and support their clients through the frustrations, conflicts and resistance of changing their organizations – and often themselves.

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Consulting Organizational Development Finance Engineering 45

Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, in times of war and crisis, companies dealing with aerospace and defense projects have to timely react to arising challenges and suggest the best solutions possible to meet the consumers’ requirements and stay competitive in the market. According to McKinsey , more than 70% of change initiatives fail.

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Resources Management Data Efficiency 59

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

It seemed as though everybody from the best-known software giants to basic industrial parts providers was marketing a “latest technological breakthrough” — even if it amounted to little more than a new sensor attached to an old piece of equipment.

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Operations Data Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 33

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications. NASA engineers had large amounts of control over what the contractors were doing.

Operations 28

Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 46

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 44

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

An exemplar of the new approach is WorleyParsons, a global engineering and construction firm that specializes in oilfield and other energy-related projects. Large investments made when the market was growing, including several acquisitions, became a heavy debt load in the downturn. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically.

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Turnaround Agile Operations System 32

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 31

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

and 90%+ will tell you ‘Advertising’, ‘Marketing’ & ‘R&D’. In some cultures this is a given e.g. the concept of Kaizan from Japan; in others, managers need to ‘socially engineer’ this culture and develop appropriate reward systems to support. People continually ask for a simple explanation of ‘Marketing.’


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Energy System Advertising Management 40