Development, Knowledge Base and Talent - Management Consulting Connection

The L&D Professional’s Secret Power as A Consultant

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Learning and development professionals have a unique place within an organization's structure. They are often tasked with the difficult objective of educating a technical or project-based workforce while not experiencing that environment first hand.

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base Consulting Education Talent

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Metrics and Rewards.

Talent

Talent Metrics Accenture Development

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Metrics and Rewards.

Talent

Talent Metrics Accenture Development

Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

An enterprise – based, c enter-led team oversees governance of the integrated project portfolio to define priorities across the enterprise. . Communities of practice develop common guidelines, methods, and processes to maintain a consistent quality standard and avoid duplication of efforts.

Management

Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management

So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

She had hired top talent, built assets, and delivered high quality demonstration projects. They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training. But a year later they have little to show for it.

Enterprise

Enterprise Talent Accenture Energy

Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Reductions in staffing levels can destroy or erode organization capabilities or “muscle” that are at the heart of their competitive advantage and may have taken years to develop. Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Customers.

Enterprise

Enterprise Talent Agile Exercises

The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

Agile

Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent

Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. This new knowledge-base resulted in new large contracts; many contractual partners are still in force today. Industries

Interviews

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview

Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2016

Working as an in-house consultant within a corporate industry rather than in a consulting firm may mean that your day to day dealings will be working with technology focused people with a different skill set to yours who are developing the new strategic areas that need to be explored. How much do you need to know? Word will soon get around.

Management

Management Talent Media Knowledge Base

Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products. Like many product companies, they also had a consolidated go-to-market approach that configured bundled solutions within markets on the front-end (See figure 1).

Accenture

Accenture Engineering Methodologies Productivity

3 Ways to Build a Data-Driven Team

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here are three key talent management recommendations that should help your team to become more data-driven: 1. This simple attempt to crowdsource knowledge will elevate the problem-solving capabilities of your team by leveraging its collective intelligence.

Data

Data Training Training Culture

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This is a key talent challenge for most organizations, and a talent gap that needs to be closed, starting at the top – with the role of the CEO. When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

Development

Development Leadership Trends Study

How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most importantly, though, it demands an ultra-specialized talent pool that, according to latest reports, currently stands at only 22,000 PhD-level experts worldwide — a remarkably small pool. This makes finding, retaining, and nurturing talent the field’s most pressing challenge. trillion and $5.8

How To

How To Research Intellectual Property Talent

Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

However, you’ll grow your knowledge base much faster than most industry jobs. This past year, both Jason and I had the opportunity to participate as judges in a case competition at a local university and developed professional relationships with many of the participants.

Recruiting

Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview Consulting

Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. Nigeria’s Paystack began in Lagos and has since relocated some of its core developments to Silicon Valley. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

Telecommunications

Telecommunications Banking Knowledge Base Data

The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The importance of talented employees for a young firm’s success is undisputed, yet we know relatively little about how exactly employees contribute to a startup’s success. But what kind of hires help ensure a startup’s success?

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base Training Training Research

Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Linda’s company, Talent Reconnect, offers returnships that are aimed mostly at women who have graduated from top business schools but who had 2 to 5 years of post-MBA experience before opting out. In the meantime, I’m also developing some full-blown programs to really engage with these returnee women.

Case Interview

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As a consequence, it is rather wasteful for each of the units to develop these solutions in parallel. knowledge management and talent management); Activities that involve cross-unit arbitration, i.e. weighing alternatives and setting priorities (e.g., Perennity through detachment. brands and capital).

Efficiency

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The L&D Professional’s Secret Power as A Consultant

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

3 Ways to Build a Data-Driven Team

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

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