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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

For example, IoT and real-time data streaming can help companies optimize their supply chains – enabling them to act in the event disaster strikes or there’s a bottleneck that could cause delays. Workforce strategies also need to align with profit margins – billable hours, recruiting, retention. Intelligent automation.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. The result of frontier analysis is an index for each firm describing its efficiency at transforming inputs into outputs relative to the best performers operating at comparable scale.

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Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)

Women in Consulting

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. All functions were represented at the all-day event and then discussed each person from a holistic perspective. 100% recruiter efficiency. She was insightful, real, vulnerable and inspiring. The results? 27% reduction in cost to hire.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. One client of Change Logic’s has built a dashboard for identifying recruitment and attrition in must-win talent populations.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8 Attracting and Engaging Employees.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening.