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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Talent Development Building on our last point, optimizing skills is an urgent priority as we move into 2024 — experts must learn to augment existing knowledge with AI and automation, use data to build valuable solutions, and at the same time, ensure that digital doesn’t diminish the human relationships still at the heart of the service-based org.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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Why you need a company wiki (and how to build it effectively)

Asamby Consulting

A learning organization If you don't want to do all process improvement and development in your company, you need to build a so-called learning organization: Your employees have a structured process and tool set to formalize and document what they learn and make it available to everyone. This can be achieved with a wiki.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

This game evaluates the candidate’s ability to solve problems efficiently and think critically. If a client drops off 1,000 documents grouped into ten different categories, it’s a lot of work to read all 1,000 documents. The third type of mini-game — the cause vs. effect mini-game — is newer and currently only seen sporadically.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

Culture 28