Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies that are able to easily access and manage these workers will be able to unleash fresh energy and thinking inside their organizations, and quickly meet staffing needs when new opportunities arise. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. What lessons can we share?

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1 to 1

JUNE 1, 2020

Centralize efforts as much as possible to make decisions fast, get swift budget approvals, share technology, and streamline ongoing contact tracing operations. But take a moment to consider the unique circumstances of potential candidates in today’s environment: High unemployment does not equate to a vast talent pool.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Strategic Information Technology and Operations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Adding Humans to the Mix. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. The Manhattan office was awarded the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification at the Gold level for commercial interiors in 2013. headquarters in New York City.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

I was grateful for the recent opportunity to communicate with Jennifer Marsh, Global Head of Public Relations Strategy, and Cheryl Coulthurst, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, at North Highland. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Deeper analysis showed that investing more time and energy into partnering with some of these lower growth accounts could improve them.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. If businesses leverage it from the back office forward, focusing mainly on increasing efficiency and optimizing internal processes, then our use of technology will result in the displacement of labor.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the leaders, the head of the organization’s US-based Operations Group, had been identified as a candidate for coaching by his manager. Was he working efficiently or just working hard? This became a virtuous cycle of the empowerment, efficiency, and pride that accompanies a shared workload and a superior outcome.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Management focused attention and effort on more quickly identifying and “exceptions handling” the edge cases that took the most time and energy to resolve. ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk. Profitable customers matter most.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment helped the executive leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and unify the group around a single strategic view of the business and its future.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. Related Video.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

The coachee was the head of the US Operations group; we will call him “Bob.” Having partnered with Brimstone in the past on creating a strategy for the Operations group in Europe, Bob’s manager reached out to us, and Bob agreed to enter into a 6-month coaching relationship with one of our executive coaches.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The increased prediction accuracy, in turn, makes it possible to achieve large increases in operational efficiency — having the right inventory in the right locations. Smoothly operating supply chains are vital for stable profits. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

The title of our book celebrates the internal energy and sense of insurgency that propels rapidly growing companies, but the book also warns of four predictable internal growth barriers that all too often trip up these companies during their pursuit of scale. Do we have a talent plan to match our growth plan? How do we know?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

If your culture and your brand are driven by the same purpose and values and if you weave them together into a single guiding force for your company, you will win the competitive battle for customers and employees, future-proof your business from failures and downturns, and produce an organization that operates with integrity and authenticity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The focus here should be on repeatability and efficiency. This unusual combination of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds is the organizational infrastructure that underlies Spotify’s operating model. Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital markets are uneven.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Abandoning the treaty was predicated on preserving American jobs, but if he’d tuned into our HBR webinar, Delivering Economic Resilience in the New Energy Paradigm, he’d have been forewarned that Pittsburgh dismantles his argument. The energy that ran the city came from a centralized macrogrid-based power system.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. The harder question is: Who’s going to “own” this digital coevolution of talent and technology, and sustainably steer it to success?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

” By that, we mean that GM’s layoffs significantly reflect the talent and workforce strains associated with the diffusion of digital and electronic technologies into nearly every industry, business, and workplace in America. Central to GM’s announcement is, in our view, what we call the “digitalization of everything.”

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PwC’s audit sector includes 40% of companies in the FTSE 100 Index and 45% of the Fortune 1000 energy companies. Assists clients with critical tax issues by providing quality tax services and in-depth knowledge of the industries and markets in which clients operate. Energy & Mining. Europe alone accounts for 45%.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Most people look for purpose in their lives; if they cannot find it in work they find some external activity and place their energies elsewhere. High performance organizations’ manage to tap into this potential energy. This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Walmart set a 50% renewable target for 2025.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Of course, government aid is helping accelerate the transition, but given the economic boost that clean energy provides to many states, support for wind and solar looks relatively safe in Congress. And, most critical, this economic reality holds even without subsidies. ” A Changing Climate. ” A Changing Climate.

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