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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. Human Resource Consultants: HR consultants help clients with human capital questions within their organizations and with improving the performance of the HR department.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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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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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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