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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

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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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. Commercial vendors, in fact, may have to work even harder with staff to develop trust in their products. Insight Center.

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How Analytics Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (and How It’s Stayed the Same)

Harvard Business

Some technologies from a decade ago are still in broad use, and I’ll describe them here too. There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. But we’re here to talk about technology. Related Video.

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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?

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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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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. First, let’s get our bearings.

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