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Upgrade your Legacy System without Disrupting your Project-based Organization

Progressus

Project-based organizations that are still utilizing legacy systems today have a host of potential system failure, compliance, and integration concerns. According to the United States Government Accountability Office , ten of the government’s legacy systems cost approximately $337 million annually to operate and maintain.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk).

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Technical and Interpersonal Skills Aren’t Enough for Consulting by Carter McNamara

Consulting and Organizational Management

Technical expertise can be very powerful for improving certain technical functions, such as finances, marketing and computer systems. Yet, the myth continues that technical and people skills are sufficient for successful consulting. Perhaps that is why so many consulting projects fail. However, complex problems require more than that.

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Doctors Feel Excluded from Health Care Value Efforts

Harvard Business

It may sound odd to suggest that the industry overlooked physicians as it set about reshaping the health care system. physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

And while the number of initiatives that fall under the umbrella of “transformation” is so broad that it can seem meaningless, this breadth is actually one of the defining characteristic that differentiates transformation from ordinary change.

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Case Study: Moving Resisters of Change to Change Champions – Part I

Gina Abudi

Changing the Minds of Employees in Finance I was working with a mid-size professional services firm that was implementing a new financial system. The CFO asked me to work with him to help him manage this project with his team, with a focus on managing communications and change.

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Oliver Wyman Careers

CaseInterview.com

Customer relationship management. Corporate finance advisory. 3) The Delta practice focuses on change management initiatives. They help senior management design and implement a wide variety of enterprise-wide changes. Strategic IT.