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Instructional Design and ROI

Clarity Consultants

For example, while a new piece of manufacturing equipment may lead to a 20 percent output speed increase, training employees to use software that streamlines processes may have variable productivity gains across your workforce. Improving employee competency and efficiency does result in gains, but they’re less concrete.

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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.

Agile 52
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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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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. Pharmacies are adding telemedicine kiosks.

Company 33
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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. IBM’s target market for consulting services became the clients who were willing to pay for higher-value corporate services packages of research, software and services. Revenue: $20B+ (2011).

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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. It makes sense that an enterprise-level software upgrade is best carried out by the firm that owns the software or the firm that implemented it in the first place.