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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important.

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

Progressus

Are compliance/governance rules working? fusion development)? Are processes/technologies implemented as part of a holistic strategy? Is everyone on the same page re: standards and procedures? Can everyone access the information they need? Is it easy to communicate/collaborate with colleagues and clients? Retain talent?

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.”

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. Government. IBM’s premier internship program for students pursuing software development and MBA degrees (but focused on those with technical backgrounds). Corporate Governance.

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

Harvard Business

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. They could make the conversion now — with government support — or they could wait and do it on their own.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

This model could have far-reaching implications for an industry that has historically focused on recruiting the best and brightest, then developing that talent for the long haul. Some of these top consulting firms also have strong alumni networks in industry, finance, law and government. Image: Pexels.